The CFTSS program, under the NYS Office of Mental Health, is a preventative mental health initiative focused on improving the social, emotional, and behavioral well-being of children. These specialized services are designed to help children overcome challenges and thrive.
Sunshine collaborates with state-designated CFTSS providers to ensure each child is matched with a mental health worker best suited to meet their unique needs. The support staff is dedicated to offering culturally appropriate, individualized services that provide children with the extra support necessary for their mental health and well-being.
CFTSS services are delivered in natural settings, enabling children to reach their full potential by creating an environment that supports their developmental growth.
Our child and family treatment support services (CFTSS) services include but are not limited to:
- Recruitment of Non-Clinical Mental Health Staff
- Employee HR Onboarding
- Timesheet Review
- Staff Supervision
- Collaboration with CFTSS Coordinators
Comprehensive Staff Training: We provide initial and ongoing training for staff, which includes:
- Documentation of State-Sponsored Training
- Orientation to CFTSS Agency Policies and Procedures
- Medicaid Compliance Training
- Use of Agency IT Programs
CFTSS Services Models
OLP Clinical Services
Non-Clinical Support Services
CPST: Community Psychiatric Supports and Treatment
- CPST services are goal-directed supports and solution-focused interventions intended to address challenges associated with a behavioral health need and to achieve identified goals or objectives as set forth in the child’s treatment plan.
- CPST services must be part of the treatment plan, which includes the activities necessary to prevent, correct or ameliorate conditions discovered during the initial assessment visits.
- CPST is an intervention with the child/youth, family/caregiver or other collateral supports. This is a multi-component service that consists of therapeutic interventions such as counseling, as well as functional supports.
- Activities provided under CPST are intended to assist the child/youth and family/caregivers to achieve stability and functional improvement in daily living, personal recovery and/or resilience, family and interpersonal relationships in school and community integration.
- The family/caregiver, therefore, is expected to have an integral role in the support and treatment of the child/youth’s behavioral health need.
- CPST is designed to provide community-based services to children and families who may have difficulty engaging in formal office settings but can benefit from home and/or community-based rehabilitative services.
PSR: Psychosocial Rehabilitation
- Psychosocial Rehabilitation (PSR) services are designed to restore, rehabilitate, and support a child’s/youth’s developmentally appropriate functioning as necessary for the integration of the child/youth as an active and productive member of their family and community with the goal of achieving minimal ongoing professional intervention.
- Services assist with implementing interventions on a treatment plan to compensate for, or eliminate, functional deficits and interpersonal and/or behavioral health barriers associated with a child/youth’s behavioral health needs.
- Activities are “hands on” and task-oriented, intended to achieve the identified goals or objectives as set forth in the child/youth’s individualized treatment plan.
- Services must include assisting the child/youth to develop and apply skills in natural settings.
- PSR is intended to foster and promote the development of needed skills identified in assessment or through the ongoing treatment of a licensed practitioner.
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