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The goal of the Intensive Behavioral Health Services (IBHS) program is to promote the ability of children/youth and families to live, learn, and thrive in their natural, everyday settings. IBHS services at ATA offer evidence-based individual, family, and group mental health services to children, youth, and family members. IBHS helps to successfully transition youth back into the school setting from acute settings such as inpatient hospitalization, partial hospitalization, or residential treatment facilities by providing care coordination and linking families to supportive community services that address their immediate needs. In short, ATA’s IBHS program supports children and adolescents who have emotional and/or behavior problems that may impede their ability to learn in a classroom-school setting. The school-based team works with the child or adolescent, their school staff, and family to help them succeed in school and across all settings.
The IBHS program accomplishes its goals through comprehensive and immediate family engagement. Services involve interventions designed to reduce and manage behaviors of concern while increasing coping skills and prosocial behaviors in at-risk children and youth. Evidence-Based Practices for individual, group, and family services include Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Bridging Mental Health and Education in Urban Schools (BRIDGE), and Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS/BOUNCEBACK). IBHS can be delivered seven days a week, 365 days a year.
ATA is currently providing IBHS School-Based Services at the following schools in the Philadelphia School District:
Alliance for Progress Charter School Blaine, James G. Dick, William School Gideon, Edward School
Kelley, William D. School Morris, Robert School Franklin Towne Charter School High School Kensington Health Sciences
Kensington High School Liguori Academy-Fortis Maritime Academy Charter High School Mastbaum, Jules E. High School
Penn Treaty High School Comegys, Benjamin B. School Global Leadership Academy Charter School at Huey Avery D. School
Independence Charter School KIPP West Preparatory KIPP West Preparatory Charter Longstreth, William C. School
Mastery Harrity Mitchell Elementary School Richard Allen Preparatory Charter School
IBHS Eligibility Requirements
Youth must be eligible for Medicaid and have a behavioral health diagnosis.
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