Your partner to address family obstacles or barriers

• Ages: 4 to 21 (as long as services began before age 18)
• Location: We work with you to find the best environment—whether in your home, your child’s school, or in a community setting.
• Fee information: Services are covered by Medicaid.
• Details: Your family will be assigned a Case Manager. They will work with you to assess, design, coordinate, and implement a plan that meets your specific needs and goals.
• We provide help with accessing and navigating:
  • Physical health services, social services, legal services, financial assistance, employment & education opportunities
• We provide support and advocacy targeting:
  • Special education accommodations for your child, children going through the progressive disciplinary process.

Intensive family-based therapy for children and young people

• Ages: 7 to 21 years
• Location: We work with you to find the best environment—whether in your home, your child’s school, or in a community setting.
• Fee information: Services are covered by Medicaid.
• Details: Our specially trained therapists work intensively and intentionally with your child and your whole family.
• We provide:
  • Strength-based assessments
  • Intensive counseling (minimum of 2 hours per week)
  • Prevention & intervention services
  • Consultation & referral services
  • Counseling
  • Parent skill-building

One-on-one, family, or group therapy for children and youth

• Ages: 3 to 21 years
• Fee information: Services are covered by Medicaid. We also accept many private insurance plans and private pay.
• Details: Our experienced therapists with you and your family help to create a customized plan for short- or long-term success. All have specific training to support healing after critical events.
• Areas of expertise include:
  • Adjustment disorders (navigating stressful life events)
  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
  • Depression and anxiety

Unique opportunity for parent-to-parent peer support

• Location: We work with you to find the best environment—whether in your home, your child’s school, or in a community setting.
• Fee information: Services are covered by Medicaid.
• Details: A Parent Support Partner (PSP) is a parent/caregiver of a child with emotional, behavioral, or mental health challenges. A PSP is an integral member of your treatment team because they bring personal experience and knowledge. Among other things, your PSP
  • Is included in service planning and implementation
  • Attends meetings with your family
  • Serves as a sounding board
  • Empowers your family to create individual goals and how to find the best strategies to make them happen

Support for pregnant women and families with children

• Ages: Birth to 5 years
• Location: We work with you to find the best environment—whether in your home, a community setting, or at preschool. PWP staff may also be found at all Starfish early childhood education centers + Beaumont, Henry Ford, and Wyandotte OBGYN/Labor & Delivery.
• Fee information: Services are covered by Medicaid.
• Details: Our therapists have specific training to support very young children and their caregivers. We provide weekly visits to:
  • Enhance parent-child relationships
  • Supports positive behaviors and child development
  • Offer emotional support to reduce parenting stress

Ensuring and championing a safe and positive learning environment for your child

• Ages: 4 to 21 years
• Location: We work with you to find the best environment—whether in your home, your child’s school, or in a community setting.
• Fee information: Services are covered by Medicaid. For families with no insurance or private insurance, please contact us for eligibility.
• Details: We work with your child’s administrators and teachers to assess and address emotional and behavioral issues that may impede school success.
• We provide:
  • Prevention and intervention services
  • Consultation and referral services
  • Individual therapy in the school setting
  • Counseling

Meeting the needs of our most at-risk children and advocating for family unity

• Ages: Birth to 21 years
• Location: We work with you to find the best environment—whether in your home, your child’s school, or in a community setting.
• Fee information: Services are covered by Medicaid.
• Details: During the wraparound process, a dedicated team “wraps around” your child to provide supports and services that meet your family’s needs.
• Your team may include:
  • Family members, extended family & friends, schools/teachers, community mental health
• Your wraparound plan:
  • Builds upon your family’s strengths
  • Can be revised until you and your team find what works

Additional peer support for youth and young adults

• Ages: 12 to 21 years
• Location: We work with you to find the best environment—whether in your home, your child’s school, or in a community setting.
• Fee information: Services are covered by Medicaid.
• Details: A Youth Peer Support Specialist (YPSS) is a peer-driven service for youth and young adults with serious emotional disturbance/serious mental illness (SED/SMI). A YPSS is an added member of the treatment team to support youth through activities and interventions to create strong relationships based on mutual respect and strategic self-disclosure.
• Among other things, your YPSS provides:
  • Non-judgmental support and connections through lived experience
  • Empowers youth to gain and use self-advocacy skills and decision-making abilities
  • Serves as a sounding board for youth to practice communication skills

Resources from Detroit Wayne Integrated Health Network (DWIHN)

• 2022-2023 Service Provider Directory
• 2023-2024 Member Handbook
• For our Behavioral Health Services DWIHN clients