CHOC Children’s is exclusively committed to improving the health and well-being of children through clinical expertise, advocacy, outreach, education and research. Our growing health care community includes two state-of-the-art pediatric hospitals in Orange and Mission Viejo, many primary and specialty care clinics, a mental health inpatient center, and four clinical centers of excellence — the CHOC Children’s Heart, Neuroscience, Orthopaedic and Hyundai Cancer Institutes.

Project HEALTH is supported by the Orange County Health Care Agency and is a Mental Health Services Act Full Service Partnership. The Mental Health Services Act resulted from Proposition 63, passed by California voters in 2004 to increase funding for mental health programs serving California’s unserved and underserved communities.

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F O R L I F E L O N G TOTA L H E A LT H

C H O C C H I L D R E N ’ S P S YC H O L O G Y

1120 W. La Veta Ave., Suite 660

Orange, CA 92868

Phone: 714.509.8481

Fax: 714.509.4567

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( H A R N E S S I N G E V E RY A B I L I T Y

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O F F E R E D I N T H E C H I L D ’ S H O M E ,

S C H O O L O R C O M M U N I T Y.

Project HEALTH (Harnessing Every Ability for Lifelong Total

Health) at CHOC Children’s is a wraparound program for

children, teens and young adults with mental health and

medical diagnoses that provides intensive in-home or com-

munity-based mental health and case management services.

The program serves children, adolescents and transitional

age youth, ages 3-21, who are Orange County residents and

need more intensive mental health services to ensure success

and safety in the home, school, health and community.

P R O G R A M S E RV I C E S

The Project HEALTH program provides intensive in-home

and outpatient community-based support, intervention and

care coordination to address critical gaps in psychosocial

and health needs. An individualized plan is developed for

each participant and family. Services include the following:

• Case management provided by a Personal Service

Coordinator (PSC)

• Behavioral health and skill building

• Increasing activity level

• Improving coping skills

• Improving distress tolerance

• Improving social and daily living skills

• Parent training/education

• Mental health services including Individual, collateral,

family and group therapy

• Crisis intervention

• Referral to housing and food resources

• Development of and referral to educational programs and

employment skills

• Referral to legal assistance with concerns such as guard-

ianship, conservatorship and end-of-life issues

• Referral to community resources and agencies

C A S E M A N A G E M E N T

Case management is especially important with children

and adolescents who have both medical and mental health

disorders as both conditions can interact with each other

and worsen the symptoms. Families in the program will

work with an identified PSC who will meet with the family

in the home or community. The coordinator will:

• Provide a thorough assessment of the patient and

family needs

• Develop an individualized care plan to ensure that

the patient and family can access needed services

• Work with medical case management to coordinate

medical and mental health services

A N E X P E RT T E A M A P P R O A C H

CHOC specialists work together with children and fam-

ilies to determine the needs of the patient and family for

successful outcomes. The treatment team for each child

consists of a child and adolescent psychiatrist, licensed

psychologists, therapists and the PSC.

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