Targeted Case Management

Children’s Home Society of Florida

Targeted Case Management

The Targeted Case Management program offered through the Children’s Home Society of Florida is a voluntary program, which targets children in need of mental health services.  The objective of the program is to provide a combination of services and assistance to children and their families in order to keep children in the least restrictive, most appropriate environment, and to maintain them in school.  Targeted Case Managers provide assessment, service planning, linkage with community resources, monitoring of services, and advocating to meet clients’ needs.  Targeted Case Managers make visits to see their clients at home, school, day care, etc, a minimum of once every 30 days.  They develop service plans with the client, parents and other parties to the case, and they ensure all parties comply with the service plan goals.

In order for a child to be eligible for the Targeted Case Management program, he or she must have a mental health disability and the need for coordination of mental health services.  A child must be experiencing difficulties at home, school, or in the community, and/or must be the victim of abuse.  To be eligible for services, a family must lack the resources to pay for treatment, having no health insurance or limited private insurance that does not cover mental health services.  A child can also be eligible for services if he or she has straight Medicaid fee-for-service coverage, or if enrolled in one of several Medicaid HMO’s. The following Medicaid plans are accepted by Children’s Home Society's Targeted Case Management Program:  Amerigroup, Staywell, Healthease, United Behavioral Healthcare, and the CWPMHP (Child Welfare Prepaid Mental Health Plan through Magellan). Children’s Home Society is also able to provide Targeted Case Management Services for children who have private insurance with limited or no mental health coverage, for children with no insurance coverage at all, and for undocumented children. 

Referrals can be made by the guardian, educator or other involved professionals by contacting Catherine Long at (321) 397-3015, or Catherine.Long@chsfl.org.