1.   Children & adolescents with severe emotional/psychiatric disturbance who can be discharged successfully / safely from hospitals or residential treatment with additional in- home/ support.

2. Children & adolescents at-risk of psychiatric hospitalization, residential treatment, or detention.
3. Children & adolescents who are “gravely disabled” for whom traditional outpatient treatment has been insufficient to safely maintain them in the home, school or the community.
4. Average GAF score 55 or less at intake.

Program Requirements:

1.      IICAPS should not be 1^st attempt at mental health treatment.

2.      Does not require DCF involvement.

3.      Average Length of service 6 to 8 months.

4.      IICAPS is a voluntary service; family must consent to in-home treatment.

IICAPS is a manualized evidence based treatment model designed by Yale University Child Study Center to prevent children and adolescents from psychiatric hospitalization or institutionalization or to support a discharge from inpatient levels of care.  While children with psychiatric symptoms are the focus of intervention, the model addresses and intervenes with the domains that impact the child most directly: family, school, community resources and service systems.

IICAPS is an intensive, home-based service (5 to 8 hours a week at minimum) designed to address specific psychiatric disorders in the identified child, while remediating problematic parenting practices and/or addressing other family challenges that effect the child and family's ability to function.  Efforts are also made within the service to improve the child’s educational functioning and to ameliorate any environmental factors that may contribute to the child's psychosocial adversity.  IICAPS teams are expected to spend a minimum of five hours per week working directly with children and their families and managing their care.  Children receiving IICAPS services are likely to be recipients of concurrent services from other mental health providers.  These providers are expected to work in collaboration with the IICAPS team during the intervention, with IICAPS taking the lead as per the Yale Child Study Center.

The primary funding source for the IICAPS intervention is Medicaid (Husky A & B).   In addition, DCF involvement other than investigations can also be funded through the partnership in the form of a DO5 waiver.

The outcomes of the IICAPS intervention are measured by the OHIO scales that are designed to measure level of functioning at the beginning and end of the intervention.