Therapeutic Behavioral Services

What We Do

Lincoln Families’ Therapeutic Behavioral Services (TBS) program provides supports for youth who are at risk of losing their home placement due to their behaviors. Our staff teams work with the entire family to find solutions to ensure stability and reduce and manage challenging behaviors. Services include: 

Comprehensive Assessment: Together with caregivers, assessing and understanding what’s behind challenging behaviors; 

Plan Development: Working together to develop an individualized family-focused plan to modify target behaviors, address environmental conditions, achieve measurable goals, and sustain improvements and gains long-term. 

Implementation & Coaching: Utilizing culturally responsive interventions, working with youth and families to learn new behaviors and coping skills; 

Coordination of Care: Collaborating with primary mental health providers, school personnel, and others to strengthen stability and performance.

Our Why

Life with a child struggling with severe emotional and behavioral issues can become overwhelmingly stressful for the whole family, and jeopardize the child’s ability to remain at home. To ensure stability and success, the entire family must be involved in finding solutions for reducing and managing challenging behaviors long-term. A collaborative approach is critical, working with children, youth, parents, caregivers, foster parents, group home staff, and school personnel to learn strategies and skills to increase the kinds of behaviors for children to succeed and stay at home.

Outcomes

90% of youth are making progress towards successful completion of the program; 

86% of participating youth had no mental health hospitalizations. 

Resources

Services - The intensity and length of services is guided by the needs of each child, including: 1) 45-day assessment period to determine if services are appropriate and deliverable; 2) delivery in locations where children experience the greatest problems; and 3) transition plan to sustain improvements and gains.

Eligibility: Children and youth under age 21 who have serious emotional challenges and who are beneficiaries of full-scope Medi-Cal. In addition, to qualify, a child must be at risk of placement in a RCL 12 or higher group home or psychiatric hospital, or have a history of psychiatric hospitalization within the past 24 months, or be in an RCL 12 (or higher) group home and need services to prevent placement failure.

Referrals - Because TBS services are an adjunct service to support current treatment, children must be referred for TBS in Alameda County by their mental health clinician. Parents, caregivers, foster parents, CASAs, social workers, probation officers and mental health providers can ask for TBS services from the child’s mental health clinician.

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