Hillside Programs: Community Intervention

PROGRAMS
Community Intervention

Hillside's Community Intervention Program provides intensive family-based treatment services to support families in crisis. These services may help prevent a child from out-of-home placement or to help reunify a family that has experienced the out-of-home placement of a child.

The services provided in this program help the child make a successful transition to a less restrictive environment and maintain the safety of all children in the home.

We are able to observe the child in the natural home setting and address specific behaviors. This allows us to better identify the strengths of the child and family so those behaviors can be encouraged. The entire family is involved in treatment goals.

In-home therapy teaches the child and family new skills to meet the family's needs and helps them develop new parenting skills and coping mechanisms. Keeping the child or children in their home can help prevent costly and disruptive out-of-home placements.

Hillside's Community Intervention Program provides the following services to families in need:

Assessments of the child and family members with emphasis on strengths, interests, and abilities. Referrals for special assessments are made as appropriate.

Crisis intervention to ensure that immediate treatment is received, crisis factors are identified, and new skills are taught to prevent future crises.

Skill development - teaching parenting, behavioral management, conflict resolution, anger management, etc.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is provided to children who engage in impulsive, aggressive, self-injuring, or suicidal behavior. The child and family are assigned a DBT coach to learn new skills while participating in individual and group DBT sessions.

Therapeutic staff are available 24 hours a day.

Therapy is provided in the family's home.

Identify appropriate community resources, advocacy, and assisting the family to access needed services.

Cases are managed closely to ensure that appointments are kept, treatment plans adhered to, and necessary services are obtained and coordinated

Lead family team meetings with all service providers.

Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) community monitoring for youth with a mental health diagnosis.

Contracts with Georgia Department of Human Resources (DHS), Promoting Safe and Stable Families (PSSF), Dekalb County Youth Matters Program, and Fulton County Health and Human Services (F.R.E.S.H.) grant.

Funding provided in part by the Fulton County Board of Commissioners under the guidance of the Human Services Grant Program.

For more information on Hillside’s Community Intervention Program contact Amy René at 404-875-4551 ext. 279 or by email at arene@hside.org.

For referral information to Hillside’s Community Intervention Program contact Tamlyn Caldwell at 404-875-4551 ext. 320 or by email at tcaldwell@hside.org.

Hillside prohibits discrimination in all its programs and activities on the basis of race, color, national origin,
gender, religion, age, disability, political beliefs, sexual orientation and marital or family status.