Intensive Behavioral Health Services (IBHS)

Intensive Behavioral Health Services (IBHS) is a therapeutic program designed to provide support to children with emotional and behavioral needs. This program provides comprehensive treatment to children in order to assist them in becoming more functional in their natural settings, such as home, school, or the community.

Our IBHS program works with each child and their family to assist them in developing strategies to manage challenging behaviors more effectively. The Stern Center serves children and youth up to 21 years of age with a behavioral health diagnosis that can include Autism Spectrum Disorder, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Depression, Anxiety Disorder, and other various diagnoses.

Below you’ll find an outline of different services within the IBHS program:

Behavior Consultation (BC): Services consist of clinical direction of services to a child, youth or young adult, development and revision of the Individualized Treatment Plan (ITP), oversight of the implementation of the ITP and the consultation with a child’s, youth, or young adult’s treatment team regarding ITP.

Mobile Therapy (MT): Services consist of individual therapy, family therapy, development and revision of the ITP, assistance with crisis stabilization and assistance with addressing problems the child, youth, or young adult has encountered.

Behavioral Health Technician (BHT): Services consist of implementing the ITP. These services are available for individual or ABA services.

Behavioral Analytic Service and BC (ABA): Services consist of clinical direction of services to a child, youth or young adult; development and revision of the ITP; oversight of the implementation of the ITP and the consultation with a child’s, youth, or young adult’s treatment team regarding ITP and the implementation of functional analysis.