Intensive Home-Based Treatment (IHBT)

Intensive Home-Based treatment (IHBT) is a comprehensive and time-limited mental health service designed to meet the needs of children and youth ages five (5) through twenty (20) with significant behavioral health challenges. 

Ohio
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What are the goals? 

  • Prevent more restrictive placements or reunify youth with their families after a placement in a congregate care setting or other higher level of care 

  • Stabilize safety concerns related to the youth's behavioral health diagnosis 

  • Reduce behavioral health symptoms 

  • Increase resiliency  

  • Stabilize and improve functioning in school, within the family and the community, and with peers 

Services are provided:  

  • In the home, community, and school  

  • At times and days that are convenient for the family (crisis response is available 24/7) 

  • Generally, four to eight hours per week 

  • For a limited amount of time, typically three to six months

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Services address:

  • Risk reduction and safety planning

  • Family and interpersonal relationships

  • Behavioral health symptoms   

  • Functioning in relevant areas of life 

How are youth eligible?   

They MUST have a diagnosis that qualifies as a "serious emotional disturbance" as outlined in the Ohio Administrative Code AND one of the following: 

  • At risk of out-of-home placement due to their behavioral/mental health condition 

  • Has returned within the previous thirty days from an out-of-home placement or is transitioning back to their home within thirty days 

  • Requires a high intensity of mental health interventions to remain in or return home safely 

Make A Referral

Current offices that participate in IHBT: