A Continuum of Care
Providing mental and behavioral health services to children, youth and their families.
DCF is committed to community-based, family-focused care in the home with placement and hospitalization only as a last resort. Services include:
- Mobile Response & Stabilization Services
- Community-Based Care Management
o Care Management Organizations (CMOs)
o Youth Case Management programs (YCMs)
o Unified Case Management (UCM)
o Family Support Organizations (FSOs)
- Behavioral Assistance & Intensive In-Community Services
- Residential Services
o Treatment Homes
o Group Homes
o Psychiatric Community Residences & Specialty Beds
o Residential Treatment Centers (RTC)
o Intensive Residential Treatment Services (IRTS)
- Partial care, outpatient, in-patient hospitalization & in-patient intermediate & acute in-patient treatment
Residential Placement
All Care Management Services (CMO, YCM & UCM)
Care Management Organizations (CMO)
Youth Case Management (YCM)
Unified Case Mangement (UCM)
Mobile Response & Stabilization Services (MRSS)
Residential Placement
Residential placement is reserved for youth with the highest levels of need who cannot be maintained at home. The demand for residential care remains high across the wide continuum of services.
DCF's continuing reform of the residential care system presents opportunities to maximize utilization of existing services and develop proven community-based alternatives to high end residential care which will eventually allow New Jersey to reduce reliance on out of state placements.
Residential care includes (from least to most restrictive):
- Treatment Homes
- Group Homes
- Psychiatric Community Residences & Specialty Beds
- Residential Treatment Centers
- Intensive Residential Treatment (IRT)
Type of Out-of-Home Placements:
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Age of Youth Served In Placement:
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Gender of Youth Served In Placement:
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Race/Ethnicity of Youth Served in Placement
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YOUTH SERVED IN OUT-OF-STATE PLACEMENTS
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Youth in DYFS Custody in Juvenile Detention Post-Disposition
Awaiting Placement
July - December 2008
Length of waiting time
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Number of Youth
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0-15 days
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1
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16-30 days
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8
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Over 30 days
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1
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All Care Management Services (CMO, YCM & UCM)
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Age of Youth Served:
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Gender of Youth Served:
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Race/Ethnicity of Youth Served:
Note: Data limitations suggest participation of Hispanic/Latino youth are under-represented below.
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Care Management Organizations (CMO)
DCF has worked to build an intensive level of community-based case management designed to coordinate services for multi-system involved youth with high levels of need.
Caseload standard of one (1) care manager for every 10 youth.
Regionally organized into 15 areas with one provider per area:
- 12 Areas have 180 slots each
- 2 Areas have 140 slots each (Morris/Sussex & Hunterdon/Somerset/Warren) – scheduled to expand to 180 each in FY 2008
- 1 Area – Essex – has 300 slots
GOALS: Maintain children at home with access to wraparound, community-based services. In the exceptional cases when residential care is necessary, facilitate entry, maintain family contact throughout placement - and plan and execute step-down.
Type of CMO Services:
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Youth Case Management (YCM)
Youth Case Management (YCM) is a moderate level of community-based case management designed to coordinate services for multi-system involved youth with moderate levels of need.
Caseload standard of one (1) case manager for every 22 youth.
Organized into 21 county-based agencies:
- Hunterdon County has the smallest YCM with 37 children.
- Essex County has the largest YCM with 598 children.
GOALS: Maintain children at home with access to wrap-around community-based services. Primary agencies responsible for providing 14-day plans for children involved with the juvenile court.
Type of YCM Services:
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Unified Case Mangement (UCM)
Type of UCM Service:
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Mobile Response & Stabilization Services (MRSS)
A phone call brings clinical staff rapidly to the home to respond to crisis.
- Clinical staff respond within one hour of dispatch
- Families receive up to 72 hour in-home crisis and stabilization services which can be followed by up to eight weeks of intensive in-community, behavioral assistance or wrap-around services
GOALS: Maintain children and youth in their home environment and avoid unnecessary hospitalization or out of home placement.
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