Behavioral
Health and Community Services
Family Mental Health Counseling
Services
Outpatient individual and group counseling services are
available for a variety of behavioral health problems experienced
by children, adults and families. These services are designed
to assist with daily living stress in relationships, divorce,
grief and loss, loneliness, anxiety and depression, victimization,
parenting, career adjustment, hyperactivity and other mental
health concerns.
Family Life Education Program
Family life education provides skills and knowledge to enrich
individuals and families. Services involve:
- Knowledge about how families work
- Interrelationship of families
- Human development throughout the life cycle
- The impact of time management on daily life
- The importance and value of parent education
Older Adult Program
Older Adult program provides specialized care to older adults
and their families. Geriatric behavioral heath services
are offered in collaboration with a variety of health care
practitioners and therapists.
Program Features:
- Diagnostic assessment and treatment plan
- Outpatient Counseling
- Psychiatric and psychological consultation
- Information and Referral
Substance Abuse Treatment and
Prevention Programs
Substance Abuse programs focus on outpatient care for adult
alcoholics, drug abusers and their families.
Services comprise of:
- Counseling through group and family formats
- Direct support and skill training for individual and
groups
- Case Management designed to assist with accessing community
resources
- Group Counseling for individual with similar types of
problems
Community Services and Prevention Programs
offers prevention and early intervention care for children,
youth, and adolescent in local schools and communities.
Prevention programs are designed to address the following
issues:
- Underage drinking and the associated harm to youth
- Long-term physical and mental damages connected with
illegal drugs
- Lack of self-esteem
- Violence in schools
- Lack of creative learning
VOICES – Treatment for Perpetrators
of Sexual Abuse
Comprehensive services are presented to perpetrators involved
in sexual abuse, incest, domestic violence and Internet
crime.
Services include:
- Diagnostic Assessment and Treatment Plan
- Therapist assist clients in developing a relapse prevention
plan
- Psychiatric and psychological consultation
- Monthly reports provided to probation or parole agents
VOCA- Victims of Crime Act
Wide-range of support services for individuals, children
and adult victims of physical, sexual and emotional abuse
or assault are provided.
Additional services consist of:
- Outpatient counseling
- Information and Referral
- Psychiatric and psychological consultations
Michigan Prison
Re-Entry Initiative – (MPRI)
This initiative offers a variety of basic services to parolees
and probationers who are being released from prison.
Services include:
- Didactic group sessions conducted in the prisons
- Follow up counseling for both individual and family
- Information and Referral Network
Teen Infant Parenting Services
(TIPS)
The service to teen program is a comprehensive program providing
prenatal care to teenagers under 19. Teen patients are seen
by a select group of health care providers, and social support
professionals.
Additional services include:
- Healthy Pregnancy and Childbirth Education Classes
- One-on-one Counseling
- Housing for Teen parent
- Teen Parenting Support Network
- Parent and Child Literacy Program
- Completing high school and career training
Child Welfare Services Division
Adoption and Adoption Search
Program
Catholic Social Services of Wayne County is a licensed child
placement agency providing resources for adoptive families
and therefore helping families reach informed decisions
in achieving their adoption goals.
Support services to adoptive families include:
- Pre-home study and counseling about adoption options
- Post placement supervision for adoptive families
- Counseling for birth parents
- Adult adoptee and birthparent search services
Foster Family Care Program
Foster families provide a temporary placement for abused
and often neglected children living in unsafe situations.
The safe and caring homes foster families provide warmth,
love, attention and security.
Foster Family Care Program offer:
- Skilled and caring substitute families for children
who cannot live with their birth parents.
- Children receive intensive case management services;
individual or family therapy and comprehensive clinical
assessment.
- Each child is managed by a CSSWC Clinician, who meets
frequently with the child and the foster family.
- Foster Parents are involved in monthly support group
meetings, ongoing training, and several social activities
throughout the year.
Planned Family Respite Care
Planned Family Respite Care provides short term care service to children
3-17 years of age diagnosed with a Senior Emotional Disturbance (SED) and
referred by their Detroit Wayne County Community Mental Health provider. A voluntary,
short term placement in a trained and licensed home allows
families to receive a break from the day to day demands
of parenting a child with special needs.
Senior
Volunteer Services Division
Foster Grandparent Program
Foster Grandparents devote their volunteer service entirely
toward disadvantaged or disabled youth. Foster Grandparents
help these children in many ways:
- Offering emotional support to child victims of abuse
and neglect
- Tutoring children with low literacy skills
- Mentoring troubled teenagers and young mothers
- Caring for premature infants and children with physical
disabilities and severe illnesses
Senior Companion
Program
Senior Companion program is a national older adult volunteer
program designed for seniors to help other seniors maintain
independent living.
Seniors serve frail older adults, adults with disabilities,
those with terminal illnesses, and offer respite for caregivers.
Seniors assist in basic but essential ways:
- Offering companionship and friendship to isolated
and frail adults
- Assisting with simple chores
- Provide transportation
- Add value to their clients' lives
Retired and
Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP)
RSVP connects volunteers age 55 and over with service opportunities
in their communities that match their skills and availability.
RSVP volunteers can choose how and where they will serve.
Volunteers provide hundreds of community services, such
as:
