Mental Health

One of the most noticeable and important things for a child to learn while they are young is how to establish healthy relationships with other people. Establishing healthy relationships is a crucial part of child development. If parents can foster healthy relationships among themselves and their children they are likely to continue developing healthy relationships among themselves and others.

As an early intervention program, CHIP addresses the unique mental health risks children and families in poverty face, through in-home family support and parenting education that helps lessen the detrimental effects of poverty. 

Families receive support and encouragement, therapeutic interventions, parenting guidance, as well as referrals for counseling, psychiatric evaluation, medication management and in-home treatments.  When combined, these interventions produce confident parents, self-sufficient families, and healthy children with a strong foundation upon which to build future successes. 

Mental health services focus on mothers with mental health issues (diagnosed or presenting) and children through age seven who are at risk for serious emotional disturbance, as well as children who are already showing signs of emotional or behavioral issues.