Children's Services

COMHAR serves children from infancy through young adulthood. Many of our services focus on younger children, since identifying potential problems and addressing them early in a child’s life or school career provides the best opportunity to prevent them or reduce their impact. We also know that children do better when they are not removed from their natural environments—most of our services occur in the child’s home or school. This also allows and encourages parents and teachers to be more involved and participate more actively in the education and treatment process.

COMHAR's Behavioral Health Rehabilitation Services (formerly Wraparound Services) works with youngsters between 3 and 21 years old who have more serious emotional and mental health problems. Children receive intensive services at home, in school, or both in order to help them reduce or replace problem behaviors with more positive, socially appropriate behaviors.

COMHAR offers outpatient evaluation and counseling for children and young people from 6 to 18 (21 if individual has an intellectual disability) who experience behavioral or emotional problems at home or in school. Services include psychiatric evaluation, medication management, family therapy and individual therapy for children.

When a child experiences difficulty keeping up with his or her peers—developmentally, intellectually, or in school—the key to getting that child back on track is to help with small problems before they become bigger problems. COMHAR's early intervention services give parents and caregivers the opportunity to help children grow and develop to their full potential by providing professional guidance to children and their caretakers, both at home and in school, educating parents and teachers, and empowering families.

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders, or FASDs, are a range of effects that can occur in an individual whose mother drank alcohol during pregnancy. These effects can include physical and mental delays, behavioral issues, and/or learning disabilities. FASDs are completely preventable if women avoid drinking any alcohol while pregnant.

 

Multidisciplinary evaluation