Intensive In-Home Therapy Services
 Intensive In-Home Services (IIHS) is a time-limited intensive family preservation intervention intended to stabilize living arrangements, promote reunification, and prevent the utilization of out-of-home therapeutic resources for identified youth through the age of 20.
These services focus on:
- Defusing a current crisis, evaluating its nature, and intervening to reduce the likelihood of a recurrence
- Ensuring linkage to needed community services and resources
- Providing self-help and living skills training for youth
- Providing parent skills training to help families build skills for coping with the youth’s symptoms
- Monitoring and managing the presenting psychiatric and/or addiction symptoms
- Working with care givers in implementing home-based behavioral support
Types of Services
- Crisis management (24/7/365)
- Intensive case management
- Therapeutic interventions for an individual youth, the family, or both
- Substance abuse referrals
- Other rehabilitative supports
 Eligibility
- Axis I diagnosis, other than sole developmental disability diagnosis
- Recommendation of service during assessment (and less intensive service has been attempted or considered)
- Youth, family, or both could benefit from learning necessary skills to cope with crises
- Youth and family issues require intensive, coordinated clinical and positive behavioral intervention
The Process
1— Assessment
A thorough assessment of the family and individuals will be conducted to ensure comprehensive information is gathered to assess areas for needed intervention. Assessment is an ongoing process, requiring constant monitoring.
2— Interventions
A strength-based perspective will be used in all interventions to help clients recognize their strengths and use them to cope with crises. Some types of interventions include: Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT), Functional Family Therapy (FFT), psychoeducation, parent training, and skills training. Referrals will also be made to ensure that needs are being met.
3—Discharge
The client will be discharged when:
- Goals have been achieved and IIHS is no longer needed
- The client has improved their level of functioning and a transitional plan to a lower level of care has been established
- No progress has been made and more intensive services are required
- Client declines further IIH services
- IIHS has proven ineffective and another type of intervention is needed
 Team Members
IIHS requires a team approach in order to accomplish goals. Team members include:
- Client
- Family members
- Friends
- Clinicians
- Social workers
- QPs and APs
- Others that the family would like to include
Location of Services
 Clients’ Rights
Clients have the right to:
- Confidentiality
- Privacy
- Access to information
- Informed consent, choice, and refusal
- Freedom from abuse, neglect, exploitation, humiliation, and retaliation
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