INTENSIVE HOME-BASED TREATMENT
A treatment option for youth with serious mental health and substance abuse concerns who are at a high risk of being placed in or are recently released from inpatient hospitalization or residental treatment.
WHAT IS INCLUDED IN
THE INTENSIVE HOMEBASED
TREATMENT (IHBT)
PROGRAM?
Intensive Home-Based Treatment (IHBT) sessions will take place multiple times per week for short periods of time; typically 3 to 6 months until the child reaches a desired level of stability. These sessions may occur in the home, at school, or in the community, as needed. The program includes:
• Initial and ongoing assessment
• Safety planning
• In-home and community-based individual and family therapy sessions
• Therapeutic Behavioral Services
• Crisis stabilization, advocacy, and education on mental health and substance misuse symptoms and treatment
• Possible referral for psychiatry services
• Resources for youth and their families 24/7
• Wraparound services
IS THIS PROGRAM
APPROPRIATE FOR MY
CHILD?
The Intensive Home-Based Treatment (IHBT) program is intended to maintain stability and safety to youth and their families within home and community settings. This program may be appropriate for your child if they are between the ages of 12-17 and they:
• Display emotional instability
• Display symptoms of substance misuse
• Are at risk of self harm or harm of others
• Experience trauma and are suffering with posttraumatic stress disorder
• Have had at least one psychiatric hospitalization
• Show disruptive or agressive behavior
• Struggle with school suspensions and expulsions
• Have had a recent or current residential placement with the intention of family reunification
• Have family involvement with child welfare organizations and/or Juvenile Court
• Experience conflict within the family unit
The care team includes compassionate, culturally-competent, and highly-qualified treatment professionals who have been fully trained in the Integrated Co-Occuring Treatment (ICT) model to ensure fidelity standards. This care team will include: an IHBT Supervisor, IHBT Therapist, and IHBT Specialist who collaborate to effectively treat our youth and their families.
ABOUT INTENSIVE HOME-BASED TREATMENT (IHBT)
In 1999, the Ohio Department of Mental Health (ODMH) and University of Akron’s Center for Family Studies brought together state, university, and community experts to design a program specifically for youth with co-occuring disorders and their families that focused on the partnership between youth and their families. This partnership is a key component for Intensive Home-Based Treatment (IHBT) because we meet youth where they are mentally, physically, and emotionally to provide comprehensive support and intervention services to help them achieve a life of stability and sobriety.
In addition to family support and advocacy, Intensive Home-Based Treatment (IHBT) identifies the following components as critical to programmatic success:
• Cultural mindfulness
• Integrated treatment approach
• Home-based intervention service delivery mechanism
• Developmentally appropriate
• Components that are grounded in prior empirical research
• Theoretically and conceptually driven
Currently, Intensive Home-Based Treatment (IHBT) is being offered by Case Western Reserve University’ Center for Innovative Practices in Akron, Ohio; Cuyahoga County, Ohio; Kalamazoo, Michigan, and McHenry County, Illinois.
Up to 45% of adolescents and young adults
with a mental health disorder have a co-occuring
substance use disorder, and 65% or more
youth with a substance use disorder
also have a mental health disorder.
HOW IS THIS PROGRAM DIFFERENT?
The Intensive Home-Based Treatment (IHBT) program depends on a strong support system surrounding youth as they navigate through their journey to mental health management and sobriety. As such, it is required that the youth and at least one full-time caregiver actively participates in the treatment process.
OUR GOALS FOR YOUR FAMILY
This program, which provides intensive home-based services, aims to provide youth (12-17) and their families with resources, services, and support to successfully manage co-occurring disorders of substance misuse and serious mental health conditions. Our hope is that through our help and your support, your child can more successfully navigate their journey to sobriety while proactively managing their mental health. This program has proven to benefit youth and their families through:
• Decreased substance misuse
• Improved mental health management skills
• Decreased risk-taking behaviors
• Improved academic performance
• Improved family relationships
• Decreased placements in treatment facilities
• Increased involvement within local community
