Highlands Community Services (HCS) - Mental Health, Substance Abuse, and Intellectual Disability Services for Southwest Virginia

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HCS Children & Family Services serve families, children, and adolescents in multiple settings including local schools, homes, in the community, and at HCS clinical office locations. Services are specifically designed to meet the needs of at-risk children and their families.

Foster Care Program

Become a foster care parent and go all in. You will never regret the amount of time, love and compassion invested in our youth. Use your voice for those who can’t speak up for themselves. Open your arms to those without. Ask a question to the one who doesn’t say much. Add the leaf to [...]

Outpatient Children’s Services

Outpatient Services specifically designed for children and adolescents.

HCS understands the unique needs of children and their families. That’s why we work to offer a wide variety of services specifically designed to meet those needs. One way we do so is through our Outpatient Services for Children and Adolescents. These offerings are meant for those whose [...]

Prevention and Education

Prevention & Education at HCS works to create drug-free communities by partnering with other groups and organizations and providing evidence-based programs that increase the development of positive life skills and help prevent/reduce youth substance abuse and negative behavior. These programs target the children and adolescents (0-18) of Washington County and Bristol, VA and their families [...]

Infant & Toddler Connection

Early Intervention Services
Early Intervention supports families of infants and toddlers, ages birth to three years, with developmental delays and disabilities. Children learn best with people they know and in the places they spend most of their time.

The primary role of an Early Intervention provider is to support families to increase [...]

Interchange: Therapeutic Alternative School

Interchange is a therapeutic day treatment school program for elementary, middle, and high school students who are unable to make adequate adjustments to the traditional public school setting. Students in need of intensive behavioral health interventions to be maintained in their home community are referred to Interchange from the Bristol and Washington County school systems [...]

Intensive Case Management

Intensive Case Management (ICM) provides and coordinates quality treatment services in the home and community setting to children and adolescents who are experiencing significant behavioral health needs. In Highlands Community Services’ continuum of care, ICM bridges the critical gap between regular Care Coordination Services and In-Home Family Therapy by providing a moderate intensity and frequency [...]

Behavior Intervention Services

Behavior Intervention Services improve the support of seriously emotionally disturbed children and youth through direct supervision, role modeling, and training of parents, guardians, or other family members. The Behavior Intervention Services consist of several different activities in which the Behavior Intervention Specialist may function in one or more of the following roles: mentor, parent aide [...]

Intensive Family Services

Intensive Family Services work to prevent children from being taken out of their homes and also aid in the transition of children back to their homes who have been previously removed. In both of these situations, parents or caretakers must demonstrate both the desire to keep their children in the home and the willingness to [...]

Children’s Case Management

Child and Adolescent Case Management Services improve the well-being of children, adolescents and their families who are experiencing significant behavioral health needs by assessing their needs and monitoring, linking and coordinating the appropriate services to meet those needs. The Case Manager assists families they serve to maintain their child or adolescent in the home by [...]

Student Assistance Program

Student Assistance Program (SAP) counselors intervene with adolescents directly in the school setting. The program addresses emotional, behavioral, social and mental health along with substance use issues among middle and high school students in Washington County, VA and Bristol, VA schools. Adolescence is often a turbulent time for many, filled with difficult decisions and life [...]

School-Based Day Treatment

The School-Based Day Treatment Program provides public schools with emotional and behavioral support for their student populations in order to maximize academic achievement and to assist in maintaining the students served in the regular school environment. The ages served are pre-school up to and including high school freshman. The Day Treatment Specialists provide a 6:1 [...]

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