Counseling & Community Services
Programs in the community and in your home including Outpatient Counseling, Psychiatry, School-based Counseling, After School Group, In-home Family Therapy and New Mom Depression Program.
Counseling & Community Services
Programs in the community and in your home including Outpatient Counseling, Psychiatry, School-based Counseling, After School Group, In-home Family Therapy and New Mom Depression Program.
Impact. It's What We Do Every Day.
Whether helping families through a crisis, providing support to a teen with depression related to personal image, or counseling a youth with mental health, behavioral or substance abuse issues, Bellefaire JCB is there. We're in the schools, in your home and in the community.
We believe that children and teens respond best when they are treated in a familiar environment where parents, siblings, guardians, teachers and other significant people are able to collaborate.
Professionally licensed staff who have degrees in psychology, social work, counseling and other human service fields provide services ranging from outpatient counseling for individuals and families to intensive community-based treatment programs. We provide assessments and evaluation to identify which treatment options are the most appropriate. Testing and evaluation will:
- Determine the presence or absence of a specific mental health condition.
- Examine cognitive abilities.
- Determine the level of academic skills.
- Formulate treatment needs and strategies most likely to help the client.
- Document changes in cognitive, academic or emotional functioning.
Bellefaire JCB's Intake Department is trained to work with families and referral sources to make clinical assessments of needs, evaluate appropriateness for programs and assist with the entire admission process.
Outpatient
Outpatient therapy helps your child and family work through a variety of behavioral issues, mental health symptoms or substance abuse disorders. Maybe your family has had a life changing event. Or perhaps your teen has oppositional behaviors or is exhibiting signs of depression, anxiety or lack of self-esteem. Our masters’ level, licensed professionals are trained and experienced in child and family counseling. Therapeutic services are also available from dually-licensed counselors working with Alcohol, Drug and Co-occurring Mental Health/Substance Abuse issues.
Our outpatient services, which are available in our Shaker Heights, Cleveland, Summit, Medina and Elyria offices, address acute signs of behavioral/mental health symptoms and substance abuse disorders including those highlighted below:
- Parent-child or child-sibling relations
- Oppositional behaviors
- Depression, anxiety, self-esteem
- Sexual or physical abuse
- Teen dating violence
- School-related issues including bullying
- Life changing events including divorce
- Grief, loss or trauma
- Aggression or stress management
- Attachment disorders
- Adoption and foster care adjustment issues
- Attention deficit-related problems
Psychiatry Services
We offer ongoing outpatient psychiatry services for children and adolescents in need of medication to address mental health diagnoses. Psychiatry services include a complete psychiatric evaluation followed by ongoing psychiatry appointments.
Open Outpatient Counseling and Psychiatry Brochure
Bellefaire JCB is the MRSS provider for Cuyahoga County
MRSS is a short-term, intensive community-based support program that can include: safety assessments, de-escalation, skill building and linkage to ongoing support. It is FREE to families in Cuyahoga County with children ages 2-20. The program's goal is to keep kids in their homes and with their families, and to ensure families are connected to appropriate and adequate resources.
A hallmark of MRSS is that the team responds to a family-defined crisis. If the caller/family deems the situation worthy of intervention, the team is deployed. The MRSS team is comprised of licensed mental health professionals, non-licensed trained mental health staff and peer support providers. In addition to the initial crisis response, the program also offers up to 6 weeks of stabilization services if needed.
Examples of common issues that MRSS staff can help with include:
- Escalating emotional or behavioral issues
- Mental health issues
- Substance use concerns
- Physical or emotional trauma
- School truancy
- Running away from home
- Caregiver/child conflict
- Suicidal thoughts
In-Home Family
At Bellefaire JCB, we reach beyond our campus to pursue our mission of providing children with excellent care, treatment and advocacy. Through our In-home Family Therapy services, we provide several programs that assist families in dealing with and resolving stress, while strengthening the family unit itself. It is our philosophy that children and youth respond best when treated in a familiar environment that allows parents, siblings, guardians and other family-identified parties of importance to comfortably participate and collaborate.
Download In-home Family Counseling Brochure
Family Therapy Program (PACT)
The Parents and Children Together (PACT) Family Therapy Program provides intensive therapy services to families who are experiencing stress due to many factors, including:
- Social or emotional problems such as ADHD, depression or anxiety
- Autism or other developmental disabilities
- Financial, housing or childcare challenges
- Aggression or self-control problems
- Trauma, separation or loss
- Substance use
- School problems, juvenile court involvement or conflicts in the community
Our program supports children and adolescents in coping with mental health diagnoses and helps parents to understand and manage their child’s emotional and behavioral problems. Through training and support, we help parents and youth improve their aptitudes in the following areas:
- Anger management
- Conflict resolution
- Stress/anxiety management
- Self-esteem
- Sobriety
- Relapse prevention
- Communication skills
- Social skills
The PACT team advocates with schools, juvenile courts, community agencies and other mental health professionals. We refer families to community resources, mental health services and positive social and recreational activities.
Two Service Options:
Intensive Home Based Treatment (IHBT) is a mental health service designed to meet the needs of youth with serious emotional disturbances who are at risk of out-of-home placement, or who are returning home from placement. The goal of IHBT is to provide the necessary mental health services and supports to enable youth to live at home—the least restrictive, most normative setting possible. IHBT services are provided in the home, school and community where youth live and function.
These services focus on the mental health issues that put the youth at risk, while promoting positive development and health family functioning. IHBT integrates core mental health services (community psychiatric supportive treatment, behavioral health counseling and therapy, mental health assessment and crisis response) into one seamless service. Service is flexibly delivered at a time that is convenient for the entire family and is available around the clock.
Integrated Co-Occurring Treatment (ICT) is an integrated treatment approach that is embedded in an intensive home-based method of service delivery. ICT provides a core set of services to youth with co-occurring disorders of substance use and serious emotional disability, as well as to the families caring for them. ICT therapists seek to provide interventions that impact the contextual factors that are influenced by the youth’s co-occurring disorders. To this end, ICT requires both youth and family participation, which means at least one parent / guardian needs to be involved in the intervention process. The ICT model has proven successful in improving the following treatment outcomes for youth and families:
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- Decreased substance use disorder symptoms
- Decreased mental health disorder symptoms
- Decreased juvenile justice charges and placements
- Decreased out-of-home placements
- Improved school functioning
- Improved family functioning
- Improved community functioning and involvement
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Jewish Day School Counseling Program
With support from The Jewish Federation of Cleveland, Bellefaire JCB provides behavioral health services to students and families in the Jewish Day Schools of greater Cleveland. For more than 25 years, the agency has placed licensed therapist in the day schools to ensure that the social and emotional needs of youth, their families and the staff of the schools are met. The services are provided at no cost to the family or the school.
A unique aspect of the Jewish Day School counseling program is Bellefaire's ability to identify and place a culturally appropriate counselor in a particular school. The success of the program is often attributed to the sensitivity of the treatment provider when working within a specific segment of the Jewish Community.
Jewish Day School counselors delivered direct behavioral health care and consultation services through outreach, counseling, crisis management, education and training. Typical referrals are related to the following issues:
- Attention deficit-related problems
- Oppositional behaviors
- Depression, anxiety or self-esteem
- Domestic violence/abuse
- Grief and loss
- Aggression
- School-related encounters
- Adoption and foster care adjustment
School-Based Counseling
We have masters' level counselors and social workers in schools throughout Cuyahoga and Lorain counties including over 75 Cleveland Metropolitan School District schools, Jewish day schools, charter schools, and throughout the East Cleveland, Shaker Heights, Mayfield, Lakewood, Euclid and South Euclid-Lyndhurst school districts.
Our school-based team addresses the mental health needs of students and provide services including assessment, wrap-around/community psychiatric support treatment, weekly individual and group counseling, and prevention programs for students in pre-kindergarten through grade 12.
Teachers, administrators and parents can refer children and teens who have issues including:
- Attention deficit-related problems
- Oppositional behaviors
- Depression, anxiety or self-esteem
- Domestic violence/abuse
- Grief and loss
- Aggression
- School-related encounters
- Adoption and foster care adjustment
Adolescent Group Therapeutic Behavioral Services
Bellefaire JCB’s Adolescent Group TBS (Day Treatment) program is offered to youth 13-18 who meet defined clinical criteria and demonstrate at least minimal ability to participate in group treatment. Funded by Medicaid (including Buckeye Community Health Plan, CareSource, Molina Healthcare of Ohio, Paramount Advantage and United Healthcare Community Plan of Ohio), groups are facilitated by experienced mental health clinicians. Clinical issues addressed in the group setting may include:
- Coping Skills Development
- Anger Management
- Impulse Control Development
- Feelings Identification and Verbalization
- Communication Skills Development
- Interpersonal Skills Development
- Self-Esteem
- Trauma and Crisis
Child and Adolescent Group Services - Intensive Group Counseling for Children Ages 6-16
Bellefaire's Child and Adolescent Group Services (CAGS) program provides intensive group counseling for children ages 6 to 16 and is facilitated by licensed mental health clinicians with expertise in child and family counseling. Children referred to the program must meet defined clinical criteria and must demonstrate at least minimal ability to participate in group treatment. Clinical issues addressed include, but are not limited to:
• Coping Skills Development
• Anger Management
• Impulse Control Development
• Feelings Identification and Verbalization
• Communication Skills Development
• Interpersonal Skills Development
• Self-Esteem
• Trauma and Crisis