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Children and Adolescents Services
Prestera Center offers a family-centered, strength-based approach to services to
children and adolescents experiencing behavioral, emotional, substance abuse or
problems with addictions. Effective services include: case management, outpatient,
intensive outpatient, school-based, intensive care coordination, in-home, addictions
treatment, psychiatric services and psychological evaluations.
Children’s Case Management Services
Children’s Case Management Services provides linking and advocacy to children and adolescents and their families.
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Case management services assist families in developing the skills and supports necessary to enhance quality of life, increase adaptive functioning, and improve self-sufficiency in the community. Case management services can include advocacy, referrals, evaluations, and treatment planning. Case managers work collaboratively with other agencies and organizations. On-going evaluations of the family’s strengths and needs are completed to ensure timely and effective services. The case manager may also provide supportive counseling to improve day-to-day coping and problem-solving skills. Case management may be provided at a Prestera Center location, in the family’s home or in the community.
Children's Outpatient Services
The Children’s Outpatient services provide office-based therapy to individuals and families for children ages 4-18 who are dealing with emotional, behavioral, or substance abuse issues.
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Therapists engage the children and their families to develop individualized treatment plans that benefit everyone. Some individuals may continue to qualify for these services beyond the age of eighteen if they are still involved in school.
Essential Outpatient Services
Prestera’s Children’s Essential Outpatient Services are provided by Bachelor’s level staff who are trained to provide medication review, escort services, clinical assessments and medication assistance when needed.
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Due to the nature of services provided, children must be at least four years or older to be eligible. Periodic assessments are preformed, ensuring that as needs change, so can the services provided.
Intensive Outpatient Services
Intensive outpatient services provide a minimum of twenty hours of structured programming each week, including at least ten hours of structured educational services each week provided by Certified County Teachers. Intensive outpatient services are offered in multiple counties in West Virginia.
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Counseling services focus primarily on stabilizing substance abuse and mental health problems. Services include group therapy, individual therapy, family therapy, supportive counseling, medication, education groups and recreational therapy. Treatment is based on the individual strengths, needs, abilities and preferences of families. The programs capable of treating both mental health and substance abuse problems simultaneously.
School-Based Services
School-based services reduce barriers to learning and enhance healthy psychological development of school-age students by providing students services at public school locations.
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Services include evaluations, psychological testing, therapy (individual, group or family), supportive counseling, treatment planning, case management and crisis intervention. Staff are based at public schools and attend meetings with school staff. They provide informational presentations to classrooms and faculty at local schools. High school-based staff facilitate tobacco education and smoking cessation programs.
Mentoring Services
Prestera Center provides staff role models or “mentors” that strengthen children and their families in Huntington, WV.
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Mentoring services are provided for clients of Prestera Center between the ages of ten and eighteen who have been diagnosed with severe emotional or behavioral problems. Children and adolescents receive an adult mentor who offers experiences outside of a traditional office setting in the form of individual and group activities.
Children or adolescents in the program will take recreational outings with their Mentor and discuss behavioral goals set during treatment planning. Discussions with mentors are designed to promote positive behavioral changes that improve the child or adolescent’s ability to function at home, at school, and in the community. Mentors help children accomplish goals and may provide help with anger management, problem solving, coping skills and social skills.
Intensive Care Coordination Services
Intensive care coordination services include intensive case management and supportive counseling to children with serious emotional disorders.
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Intensive care coordinators work collaboratively with other agencies and request input from children, adolescents and/or their families about the effectiveness of services they receive.
In-Home Services
The goal of in-home services is to preserve and protect the child living with the rest of the family. In-home services teams provide case management and therapy services for children with serious emotional disorders and their families.
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The in-home services therapist’s primary responsibility is to provide individual therapy and family therapy to the consumer. The in-home team provides on-going evaluations of the consumer’s individual strengths and needs, facilitates treatment planning meetings, links families with needed services, and serves as an advocate for the child and their family. These activities are conducted primarily in the consumer’s home but can be provided at a Prestera Center office.
