Intensive In-Home Services (IIH) for youth under age 21 are intensive therapeutic interventions provided in the youth’s residence (or other community settings as medically necessary and documented in the Comprehensive Needs Assessment and ISP), to improve family functioning, and significant functional impairments in major life activities that have occurred due to the youth’s mental, behavioral or emotional illness in order to prevent an out of home placement, stabilize the youth, and gradually transition the youth to less restrictive levels of care and supports.

 

All IIH services shall be designed to specifically improve family dynamics, provide modeling, and include clinically necessary interventions that increase functional and therapeutic interpersonal relations between family members in the home.