Intensive Youth Mental Health Services Include:

• Intensive care coordination
• Child & family team meetings
• Family and youth partners
• Strength-based, individualized service planning
• Community-based supports
• Crisis/safety planning

Intensive Care Coordination (ICC)

Intensive Care Coordination (ICC) is similar to Targeted Case Management (TCM) and includes components such as facilitating assessment, care planning and coordination of services, including urgent services for children or youth. ICC is delivered using a Child and Family Team and is intended for Medi-Cal insured children or youth under age 21 whose treatment requires cross-agency collaboration.

Intensive Home-Based Services Coordination (IHBS)

Intensive Home-Based Services (IHBS) are individualized, strength-based interventions to address mental health conditions that interfere with a child or youth’s functioning. IHBS help the child or youth build skills necessary for successful functioning in the home, community and school. This service is intended for Medi-Cal insured children or youth under age 21 that are currently receiving ICC and meets medical necessity for the service.

Katie A Intensive Services

The Katie A intensive team provides wraparound-like, intensive, community based mental health services and supports to children, youth and transitional age youth in the Child Welfare Services system. The therapist and rehabilitation specialist work as a team to provide services that are driven by the Child and Family Team and include the full array of mental health services as well as, Intensive Care Coordination and Intensive Home-Based Services. 

Who is eligible:  

• Children or youth under 21 years of age that have full scope Medi-Cal, and
• Meet medical necessity criteria for Specialty Mental health Services, and
• Have an open child welfare case, and
• Are currently receiving or being staffed for intensive services (Wrap Around services, Therapeutic foster care, Therapeutic Behavioral Services, Crisis Stabilization, other intensive mental health services (i.e. Day Treatment), Full Service Partnership, a specialized care rate due to behavioral health needs, in a group home (Rate Classification Level 10 or above), in a psychiatric hospital or 24-hour mental health treatment facility, and/or has experienced their third placement within 24 months due to behavioral health needs.