Care Coordination for Youth
APC provides Crisis Care Coordination services through the Children’s Community Mental Health Services and Wraparound Milwaukee. This is the Behavioral Health Service’s entity that manages the public sector, community-based mental health system for children, adolescents, and young adults (ages 5-23) in Milwaukee County who have serious mental health or emotional needs. All of their programs rely on care coordination, offer a range of support services, and promote parental and youth choice, family independence, and provide trauma informed care for children and youth in the context of their family and community.
To qualify for this program youth must be between the ages of 5-18 years and must have a mental health diagnosis which may be affecting them in more than one of their environments.
Any family who resides in Milwaukee County can request an intake screening appointment through contacting the Wraparound REACH Screener at 414-257-7607.
APC specifically, provides services for the REACH program, which stands for Reaching, Engaging and Assisting Children & Families. Referrals come directly from families, schools, service providers and through Milwaukee County’s Mobile Crisis. Youth generally are not involved in the Youth Justice or Child Welfare systems. The philosophy incorporates the use of the four “H’s”; Hello, Hope, Help and Healing. To help the families reach their goals, Care Coordinators assist the family in creating a team of community-based providers (the Child and Family Team) that work with the family from enrollment through graduation. The team can consist of family members, friends, teachers, coaches, and church members as well as paid providers such as therapists, psychiatrists, mentors, tutors and crisis stabilization workers. Using a community approach, the teams remain strength based and are encouraged to celebrate success.