Child & Youth Behavioral Health Services
The Child and Youth Behavioral Health (CYBH) Division serves to enhance the lives of children, adolescents and their families.
Child & Youth Behavioral Health Services
CYBH offers an array of services designed to assist children and adolescents who are experiencing emotional difficulties, behavior problems and/or substance abuse. The goal of most treatment plans is to help the child succeed while remaining in the family and in school.
Child and Youth Behavioral Health Services is located at 297 Independence Blvd, Pembroke 6 Building, Suite 300, Virginia Beach, VA 23462 and can be reached by phone at (757) 385-0850.
Our Services
Child and Youth Behavioral Case Management services assists individuals ages 5 – 21, whom are still enrolled in a primary or secondary educational setting, in gaining access to needed medical, social, educational and other services. Services include assessing for individual and family needs, planning services, and linking individual to community supports in an effort to promote goals as developed with the child and family.
Case Management assists the individual and family to locate, develop or obtain services, resources and public benefits. The case manager assures the coordination of services and service planning with other providers and human service agencies and systems, such as the public school system, local health and human services departments.
Intensive Care Coordination (ICC) provides the coordination of comprehensive community resources and services to children and adolescents who are at risk of entering or who are currently placed in a residential facility. ICC services are short-term services provided to those children and adolescents who would benefit from a higher level of intensity than can be provided by typical case management services.
Services and resources may be formal or informal, and can include educational, financial, legal, vocational, medical, psychiatric, psychological, and social support opportunities.
The goal of the ICC service is to maintain the youth in, or transfer the youth to a family based or community based setting. For youth in a residential setting the goal of ICC is to shorten the time needed at residential placement and decrease the need to re-enter a residential placement after returning to the community.
Outpatient Services provides licensed therapists and a board certified psychiatrist to assist with mental health and substance use problems needs for children, adolescents and their families. Each client is assessed at intake and an individualized treatment plan is created with the client and parent(s) or guardian(s).
Outpatient treatment may include individual, family or group therapy; multi-family therapy (several families attend together); individualized substance abuse services; and/or psychiatric evaluation and medication management.
Therapists may also make referrals to programs both in the agency as well as within the community. We utilize a multi-disciplinary team approach including weekly treatment team meetings and clinical supervision on as an needed basis.
The outpatient professionals have extensive training in the field of trauma focused care and utilize progressive treatment modalities.
Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) is now offered at Child & Youth Behavioral Health. PCIT is a highly effective evidence-based treatment for children with behavioral problems that are between the ages of 2-6. The decision to whether PCIT is the most appropriate treatment for you and your child is between you and your mental health professional.
PCIT is conducted through "coaching" sessions during which the parent/caregiver and their child are in a playroom while the therapist is in an observation room watching the interactions through a one-way mirror and/or live video feed.
The parent/caregiver wears a "bug-in-the-ear" device through which the therapist provides in-the-moment coaching on skills to assist in managing their child's behavior.
Crisis services are available through a regional collaborative. If your child is experiencing a mental health or substance use crisis, simply call 9-8-8. A telephone assessment to determine the level of need will be provided free of charge, and if needed, a team of crisis clinicians can be dispatched to your location to assist with the crisis.