Child and Family Services
Intensive Services for Children with Serious Behavior
and Emotional Problems

Children's Intensive Services (CIS) serves children, birth to 18 years of age, who are experiencing serious emotional and behavior problems. Treatment includes a broad array of services designed to:

• Reduce acute psychiatric symptoms;
• Teach the child effective symptom-management and coping skills;
• Help teach family members or caretakers how to manage symptoms and behavior or emotional problems in children.

Helping Children and Families

CIS can help children avoid hospitalization or placement out of their homes or schools. At The Providence Center, teams of child and family specialists, including psychiatrists, therapists, case managers and family service coordinators, develop individualized treatment plans designed to provide families with assistance that can lead to positive, healthy changes for all involved family members.

Services are provided in the family's home, in the child's school, at The Providence Center, and in other settings within the family's community. CIS is designed to be implemented in homes and communities so that children can put their new skills to work where they live, learn and play.

CIS Services

CIS includes a variety of services, depending on the child's and family's needs. Treatment services may include:

• Crisis/emergency assessment and intervention, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
• Case management
• Family assessment
• Behavior management and parenting strategies
• Medication evaluation and management
• Individual, group, and family therapy
• Service coordination with other providers in the community
• Assistance navigating service and treatment options

Eligibility

Each child that is referred to The Providence Center's CIS program will receive a clinical assessment to determine if he or she is eligible. Children and families that meet eligibility criteria will be admitted to the program.

Eligibility criteria include:

• Children and youth birth through 18 years of age
• Children and youth who exhibit behavior and emotional problems that significantly interfere with their functioning at home, in school and in the community

Coverage

CIS is paid for by all Rhode Island insurance plans, including Neighborhood Health Plan (NHPRI) and commercial health insurance plans such as Blue Cross, BlueCHiP and United Health.

Children who have Rite Care and those who receive Medical Assistance through Katie Beckett or Social Security, receive services over a longer period of time than those with commercial heath plans. These plans cover up to six months, while commercial plans cover services up to ten weeks.

To learn more about this program, please call 401-276-4020, Monday - Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.