FY26 Renewal: Enhanced Clinical Community Support Program (ECCS)

The Enhanced Clinical Community Support Program (ECCS) is a program that expands service delivery for youth who are preparing to discharge from inpatient psychiatric treatment. The program aims to promote stabilization in a community-based foster home setting and reduce mental health crises resulting in hospitalization. The Community Clinician joins the family team while the youth is in the hospital, to support service planning and strengthen the skills of both caregivers and caseworkers to meet the increased psychiatric needs of the youth upon return to a home. Services and interventions provided through the ECCS program will aim to increase the strengths and resiliency of the youth, caseworker, and their caregiving team, by empowering the team to meet the unique mental health needs of the youth, prevent return to a higher level of care, through establishing a foundation of trauma-informed care to specifically relieve symptoms related to complex trauma. Key aspects of the program include: • Caregiver support (both individually and group) and psychoeducation • Clinical consultation and concrete case management support for the case management team • More frequent child and family team meetings to promote coordination of services