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The comprehensive behavioral health assessment is an in-depth and detailed assessment of the child’s emotional, social, behavioral and developmental functioning. A comprehensive behavioral health assessment must include direct observation (not telemedicine) of the child in settings in which the recipient routinely participates to include the home, school, community, and work site.

Who May Receive Services: The recipient must be under the age of 21 and meet the following criteria: be a victim of abuse or neglect and have been determined by the Department of Children and Families or their designee to require out-of-home care. Or The recipient must have committed acts of juvenile delinquency, be suffering from serious emotional disturbance, and be at risk for placement in a residential setting.		The Goals of the CBHA: • Provide assessment of areas where no other information exists; • Update pertinent information not considered to be current; • Integrate and interpret all existing and new assessment information; • Provide functional information, including strengths and needs, to the referral source, child and family that will aid in the development of long and short-term, culturally sensitive intervention strategies to enable the child to live and receive his or her education in the most inclusive environment; • Provide specific information and recommendations to accomplish family preservation, re-unification, or re-entry and permanency planning; • Provide data to promote the most appropriate out-of-home placement, when necessary; • Provide information for development of an effective, individualized, strength based, culturally sensitive, comprehensive services plan and a Medicaid community behavioral health services individualized treatment plan.

Comprehensive Behavioral Health Assessment