Child & Family Services CBHC - Plymouth

Adult and Child Clinic-Based Counseling

CFS offers individual counseling to children, adolescents, and adults as well as family and couples therapy. Counselors have earned advanced professional degrees in either psychology or social work and are licensed or working towards licensure in the state of Massachusetts. Additionally, counselors receive ongoing training and continuing education to help individuals work through a variety of challenges utilizing a full range of therapeutic interventions as well as collaboration with supports.

Community Based Acute Treatment (CBAT)

Community Based Acute Treatment (CBAT) is a 9 bed, single room unit that provides intensive short-term care to children and adolescents, aged 4-17. CBAT is inclusive of all genders and provides a structured and secured treatment setting for children and adolescents experiencing behavioral and emotional crisis. CBAT is a 24 hour therapeutic living environment with moderate levels of supervision and intensity of service and is used as a diversionary placement to inpatient hospitalization or as a bridge from inpatient stay to home.

Once admitted to the CBAT, the clinicians work with families and guardians to plan an individualized treatment plan that identifies the goals and needs of the client to help stabilize their emotional and behavioral crisis for safe return to the community. During treatment, clients receive individual therapy, group therapy, family therapy, and psychiatric assessment. Clients also receive schooling 5 days a week to allow them to maintain their educational needs.

Our goal is to work with both the client and family in order to achieve stabilization and work towards successful reintegration back into home, school, and the community. CBAT uses community resources for treatment, safety planning, and referrals upon discharge. The average length of stay at the CBAT is 10 days, but can vary due to progress, successful completion of treatment goals, and discharge planning.

Emergency Services (Crisis Center)

Child & Family’s Emergency Services (Crisis Center) operates 24 hours a day and provides care for people of all ages in need of emergency mental health counseling. An emergency service clinician evaluates the clients in crisis and arranges appropriate treatment after consultation with a psychiatrist. An experienced master’s level clinician is available seven days a week and there is always a psychiatrist on-site or on-call.
Crisis Center Tel: (508) 996-3154

Community Crisis Stabilization (CCS)

CCS is a nine-bed unit that receives patients from our Emergency Services (ES) and from other ES programs in the area. CCS is for patients who need support, monitoring, and/or medication stabilization, but do not need inpatient admission. Typically, the patients stay for 3 to 10 days prior to discharge back into the community.

Coordinated Care Network (CCN) Behavioral Health Community Partner Program

At Child and Family Services, our Behavioral Health Community Partner Program consists of Care Coordinators, Clinical Care Managers, Nurses, and a Program Director. The Care Coordinator works in collaboration with enrollees who may benefit from this outreach service as elected by MassHealth or Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs).

Intensive Care Coordination (ICC) and Family Support & Training (FS&T)

CSA is a community-based organization whose function is to facilitate access to, and ensure coordination of, care for youth with serious emotional disturbance (SED) who require or are already utilizing multiple services or are involved with multiple child-serving systems (e.g., child welfare, special education, juvenile justice, mental health) and their families.

Empowering Families for Success (EFS)

This program is designed to meet the needs of families who have children with mental health problems referred by the Department of Mental Health. Most services are provided in a family’s home at their convenience. Some of the services include traditional counseling to assistance with homemaking, behavior modification, medication management, respite services and any other type of service that will train and assist the family to address the needs of their children in a non-hospital setting.

In-Home Therapy

Available for eligible Masshealth recipients as part of the CBHC array of services. In-Home Therapy works intensively with your whole family, not just your child, in your own home and community setting to strengthen relationships and support your child. In-Home Therapy can help your child and family resolve conflicts, learn new ways to talk with and understand each other, create helpful new routines, and identify community resources which could be helpful. Services are delivered by one or more members of our professional therapeutic and support team. Services are available seven days/week between the hours of 8am–8pm and include a 24/7 telephone response for urgent issues.