Ongoing outpatient psychiatry services are available for children and adolescents who require medication management to support their mental health treatment. Services include a comprehensive psychiatric evaluation followed by ongoing psychiatric appointments to monitor progress and adjust care as needed.

Intensive Home Based Treatment (IHBT) services are provided to children, youth, and families who need a higher level of support to address emotional, behavioral, or mental health challenges. The program is designed to help families stabilize and strengthen functioning within the home and community.

Families typically participate in IHBT for three to six months, receiving three to six hours of service per week. As progress is made, services are gradually stepped down to less intensive outpatient care in the community.

IHBT uses a multisystem, wraparound approach that supports the whole family. Treatment focuses on strengthening relationships, improving communication, and developing practical strategies to address challenges. Interventions may include cognitive behavioral therapy, family preservation services, and coordinated care planning.

The IHBT counselor works closely with the family and collaborates with other involved systems, including schools, courts, therapists, and other community providers, to ensure coordinated and effective care.

Services include:

• In-home assessment and treatment
• Individual and family therapy
• Coordination with schools, courts, and providers
• Ongoing consultation and progress monitoring
• Transition and aftercare planning

The Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) is a 10-week program providing structured group counseling for adolescents ages 13–17 experiencing mental health and/or substance use challenges. The program helps youth develop skills and strategies to support recovery and improved daily functioning.

IOP uses an evidence-based Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) curriculum in group sessions. Individual therapy is tailored to address each participant’s specific mental health and/or substance use needs, along with coordinated case management support for youth and families.

Group sessions meet three days per week—Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 4:00–6:00 p.m.—and are supplemented with weekly individual therapy.

The program runs year-round, with a brief break during the winter holidays. Groups are semi-open, allowing new participants to enter at designated points throughout the 10-week cycle.

Family involvement and transportation are important components of participation. Families are responsible for transportation; however, limited assistance may be available on a case-by-case basis.

IOP is primarily funded through Medicaid, with limited grant funding available for eligible non-Medicaid participants.

Best practice research indicates that integrated treatment for co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders is the most effective approach for adolescents. Our master’s-level clinicians are dually trained and licensed in both mental health and substance use treatment, allowing for a coordinated and comprehensive model of care.

Services include individual and family counseling, group counseling, crisis intervention, and case management. Case management services also provide linkage to and advocacy with schools, courts, and other community resources to support coordinated care.

Services are delivered in the home or community whenever possible and often involve the full family system. This approach helps strengthen relationships, improve communication, and support lasting healing for adolescents and their families.

Bellefaire JCB’s Child and Adolescent Group Services provide structured, evidence-based group treatment facilitated by credentialed clinicians with specialized training and experience in child and family counseling.

Children and adolescents referred to the program must meet defined clinical criteria and demonstrate the ability to participate in a group setting.

Groups address a range of clinical needs using evidence-based approaches, including:

• Distress tolerance skills and coping strategies
• Mindfulness and impulse control skills
• Emotion identification and regulation
• Communication and interpersonal effectiveness skills
• Anger management
• Self-esteem development
• Trauma and crisis management skills

Services are primarily funded through Medicaid, with limited grant funding available when applicable. Groups operate year-round Monday through Friday, excluding holidays and quarterly staff training days.

Limited transportation is available to and from the Bellefaire JCB location.

Functional Family Therapy (FFT) is an Intensive Home-Based Treatment (IHBT) service that provides in-home therapy for families with youth ages 10–18 who are at risk of out-of-home placement due to mental health and/or behavioral concerns.

Services are delivered directly in the home environment, allowing clinicians to engage families in their natural setting and address challenges in real time. FFT is an evidence-based practice (EBP) supported by extensive research demonstrating both short- and long-term positive outcomes for youth and families.

The model focuses on strengthening family relationships, improving communication, and developing practical strategies to reduce risk factors and support lasting change.

Behavioral Health Respite Services provide a short-term break for the caregiver of a child or adolescent ages 8-16. Each session lasts approximately 3 hours, providing caregivers with an opportunity to have some time to themselves while the youth is in a safe and fun environment. Youth will be in the supervision of professionals with experience providing care for children and adolescents and will enjoy engaging activities in the community or at Bellefaire’s office.

• Provides temporary and short-term respite services to families enrolled in OhioRise
• Services are scheduled in advance and are guided by each family’s care plan
• Transportation to and from activities is available
• Offers on and off campus activities
• Services are provided by staff that have extensive experience working with youth
• Safe environment with high staff to youth ration for meaningful and enjoyable small group experiences