Heat Holistic Lifestyle provides Intensive In-Community Service (IIC) programs. IIC is an analytical, focused goal-oriented, and needs-based clinical intervention that addresses the emotional and behavioral challenges of youth with moderate to high needs.
It may be provided in a youth’s home or in an amenable community location by a licensed behavioral health clinician and is intended to stabilize and support the youth and family to deter more intensive interventions and to support the youth and family in collaboration with the Child Family Team (CFT) or identified support system.
Our Intensive In-Community Service programs focus on the needs of youth participants and allows our staff to clearly work towards goals alongside our members.
This is a short-term, solution-focused intervention that addresses presenting behaviors resulting in the youth and her/his family/caregiver/guardian gaining insight and improving function at home and in the community.
The IIC Services are intended to be part of a comprehensive plan of care that is driven by the youth and family to address assessed needs. They must be rendered at a time of day and location optimum to the family.
The interventions must be contoured to meet the unique needs of the youth, are reflective of her/his cultural values and norms and utilize the strengths of the youth and family.
The primary objective of the interventions is symptom reduction and individual skill development with the goal of restoring or maintaining the youth’s functioning.
IIC clinicians may provide youth and their families with an array of interventions such as:
- Psycho-Education
- Negotiation
- Conflict Resolution Skill Training
- Effective Coping Skills
- Healthy Limit-Setting
- Emotional Regulation
- Stress Management
- Self-Care
- Symptom Managment
- Problem-Solving Skills
- Skill-Building
All of these skills aid in developing self-fulfillment and confidence.
Intensive In-Community Services are short-term with projected time frames of no longer than 3 months. Therapeutic services are typically provided 1 to 2 hours a week.