The YES Waiver is a home and community based services waiver that allows for more flexibility in the funding of intensive community-based services to assist children and adolescents with severe emotional disturbances to live in the community with their families.

Goals:

• Reducing out-of-home placements and inpatient psychiatric treatment by all child-serving agencies;
• Providing a more complete continuum of community-based services and supports;
• Ensuring families have access to parent partners and other flexible non-traditional support services as identified in a family-centered planning process;
• Preventing entry into the foster care system and relinquishment of parental custody; and
• Improving the clinical and functional outcomes of children and adolescents.

Services:

In addition to the services already offered under Camino Real Community Services' Children's Mental Health Program, the following are services of the YES Waiver:

• Adaptive Aids and Supports
• Community Living Supports
• Family Supports
• Minor Home Modifications
• Non-Medical Transportation
• Paraprofessional Services
• Professional Services
• Respite
• Supportive Family Based Alternatives
• Transitional Services

Camino Real Community Services will assess you for eligibility.

Demographic Criteria:

• Be between 3 and 18 years of age;
• Reside in Atascosa, Dimmit, Frio, Karnes, La Salle, Maverick, Mc Mullen, Wilson, or Zavala County; and
• Reside in a non-institutional setting with the child's or adolescent's Legally Auhtorized Representative; or in the child's or adolescent's own home or apartment, if legally emancipated.

Clinical Criteria:

• Have serious functional impairment or acute severe psychiatric symptoms as indicated by:
• Risk of Self Harm
• Disruptive or Aggressive Behavior
• Family Supports
• School Behavior
• Current Diagnosis
• There is a reasonable expectation that, without YES Waiver services, the child or adolescent would qualify for inpatient care.

Financial Criteria:

• A child or adolescent must be eligible for Medicaid.

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