Collaborative Intensive Bridging Services- Reimagining Residentail Treatment Placement for Youth

About the Program

Category: Children and Youth (Best in Category)

Year: 2016

The Collaborative Intensive Bridging Service (CIBS) was developed to meet the needs of youth with significant behavioral difficulties and their families. Youth referred to CIBS exhibit behaviors that are unable to be safely addressed in the youth’s home and community. CIBS is an integrated mental health intervention that combines intensive case management services and intensive community based therapeutic services with a short residential treatment placement. The purpose of CIBS is to successfully interrupt the youth and family’s current cycle and patterns of behavior and interactions that affect the youth’s ability to live in the community and their parents’ ability to manage their behavior. Through this unique partnership, successful outcomes have been achieved in the youth’s and their family’s ability to successfully generalize learned skills to their home and community, significantly reduce the average days the youth is in out of home placement, significantly reduce the rates of placement recidivism, and stabilize county costs associated with residential treatment services. The intensive community based therapeutic service is delivered in three phases typically last 6 – 9 months. The residential treatment placement is 30 – 45 days.