Behavioral Health and Substance Use Treatment, Children and Adolescents

This program serves children from birth through age 17 experiencing problems and disruption in their home, school, or community due to emotional disturbance or substance use. The goal is to provide treatment to support optimal functioning and to maintain the child in the community or least restrictive environment. Services include individual, family, and group counseling, play and expressive art therapies Dialectical Behavior Therapy, case management, crisis intervention, psychiatric evaluation, medication management, and discharge planning from state and private mental hospitals with linkage to community services. Also, therapy services are provided to detainees at Roanoke Valley Juvenile Detention Center.