Program areas at Mid-Fairfield Child Guidance Center
Outpatient children's clinic (opcc): offers individual, family, and group therapies; psychiatric services (evaluation and medication management); parent Guidance and case management services. Children adolescents (ages 5-19) receiving services in opcc suffer from a wide variety of symptoms and diagnoses (e.g., depression, anxiety, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, etc. ).
Child first: a national, evidence-based two generational model, that provides intensive home-based behavioral health services to children, birth through age 6, and their caregivers, as well as prenatal mothers. Interventions include home-based parental Guidance, child-parent psychotherapeutic services, assessment and mental health consultation in early childcare and school settings, and assistance to connect families with community services and supports.
Prospects extended day treatment program: provides intensive multi-model treatment for children and families whose needs cannot be adequately met through conventional outpatient treatment programs. Edt's comprhensive 6-month wrap-around model combines a 5-day after school program and a 5-day summer milieu program with a flexible schedule of individual, family, and group therapy, parent Guidance and psychiatric services.
System of care (ages5-18): offers wraparound care coordination and case management to families who have a child/adolescent with complex behavioral health needs that require support from multiple agencies and service providers. Wraparound services is a process by which a chils, his/her familt, and care coordinators assemble a team, identified by the family, to support the family while addressing a Child's needs.early childhood consultation partnership (ages birth-5): an evidence-bsaed early childhood mental health consultation program that provides services in a continuum of care to include, center-wide services, classroom services, or individual Child services. For each service, eccp seeks to build capacity through partnerships in order to meet the social emotional and/or behavioral needs of young children.