Children’s Village School Based Child and Adolescent Health Center

About the Program

Category: Children and Youth (Best in Category)

Year: 2016

Children’s Village is Oakland County’s public juvenile facility housing 216 youth. The 50 acre campus contains seven residential buildings ranging from non-secure to secure. A campus wide school, medical unit and food services unit complete the campus. Children’s Village operates under licensure by the State of Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. Reflective of the licenses are three key program areas; secure detention for pre-adjudicated youths, residential (correctional) treatment for adjudicated youth and shelter care/transitional services for youth who have been removed from their homes for reasons of abuse and/or neglect or are status offenders. In an effort to provide a full continuum of care, Children’s Village collaborates with several community organizations. One of those organizations is Oakland Integrated Healthcare Network (OIHN), a nonprofit, 501(c)(3) community partnership that offers coordinated, high quality primary, mental and dental health care throughout Oakland County, Michigan. OIHN received designation as a Federally Qualified Health Center in May 2015. In late 2014, OIHN was awarded funding through the Michigan Department of Education and Michigan Department of Community Health (now known as the Department of Health and Human Services) to establish a school based child and adolescent health center focused on serving at-risk youth and children through a trauma informed model of care. This school based health center is located on the campus of Children’s Village within the Children’s Village School. All services are aimed at achieving the best possible physical, emotional, and intellectual health status for the residents in care.