Children's Home of Northern Kentucky
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Mission Statement
Children's Home of Northern Kentucky, also sometimes called CHNK Behavioral Health, is a trauma-informed healthcare organization with a mission of creating holistic partnerships for health and wellness that are inclusive, innovative, and inspiring. The organization’s approach to care envisions a community free from adverse environments and childhood experiences that limit hope and opportunity and promotes a community that is safe, acknowledges human emotion and loss, and empowers future possibilities.
About This Cause
Children’s Home of Northern Kentucky/CHNK Behavioral Health is a licensed, 501(c)3 private healthcare provider in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Founded in 1882 as a traditional orphanage for youth, the organization has evolved with changing community needs. Securing multiple new state licenses in recent years, CHNK is now empowered to address an array of mental health, behavioral health, and addiction treatment needs in both outpatient and residential settings, with a special focus on at-risk youth and families. CHNK began as a traditional orphanage in 1882, offering a safe shelter to children whose parent(s) had died or whose family was unable to provide care due to poverty, addiction, or abuse. In the 1980s, the organization transitioned to residential care for children in state custody due to substantiated cases of extreme neglect and/or abuse in their families of origin. CHNK continues to provide this type of care for youth from across all 120 counties in the state. Over the last five years, in an effort to provide more prevention and intervention services that could lower the amount of youth entering state’s custody, CHNK launched multiple new outpatient and residential treatment programs made possible through state-issued licenses that became available in 2014. The organization employs a staff of over 100 healthcare professionals, including psychiatrists, pediatricians, and registered and licensed practical nurses offering an integrated approach to treatment. CHNK robust continuum of care includes the following treatment services: Therapeutic Academic Services, including Day Treatment/Partial Hospitalization - In partnership with three Northern Kentucky school districts, CHNK marries traditional academic services with therapeutic treatment services for high-risk elementary, middle, and high school students unable to navigate a traditional school environment due to their behavioral health needs. Prevention Services – CHNK’s Pillars of Support program benefits students aged 10 to 14; the program helps students develop positive social skills and healthy recreation habits, work towards academic success, and address behavioral health needs. Outpatient Services - These services benefit children, adolescents, and adults who have mental health barriers, need addiction treatment, or are exhibiting other behaviors that have negatively impacted their daily lives at home, in the classroom, in the workplace, and within the community. Intensive Outpatient Programs (IOP) – CHNK offers multiple IOPs that follow a structured, trauma-informed, and evidence-based approach to therapeutic care for adolescents, teenagers, and adults who need help recognizing, managing, and overcoming mental health and/ or substance use disorders. Targeted Case Management - For youth and families requiring assistance outside of their behavioral health needs, CHNK Targeted Case Managers provide individualized attention that helps connect each client and family with other community resources and/or services that may be beneficial to them. Family Preservation Program (FPP) – This program helps to strengthen families and keep children safely at home rather than being placed into foster care or a group residential treatment center. FPP is a collaboration between CHNK Behavioral Health and the Kentucky Department for Community-Based Services (DCBS); it is funded through state and federal funding. Psychiatric Residential Treatment – CHNK provides 24/7, residential care for boys aged 8 to 17 who are experiencing one or more significant mental health diagnoses and are either at risk of psychiatric hospitalization or have been discharged from a psychiatric hospital. CHNK is the only behavioral healthcare provider in Northern Kentucky licensed to provide this care. Private Child Care (PCC) Residential Treatment - This program provides 24/7 therapeutic care for male youth between the ages of 7 and 17 who have been removed from their families of origin due to substantiated cases of abuse or neglect and are now in the custody of the state of Kentucky. CHNK has also been identified as one of the top ten behavioral healthcare providers in Kentucky, earning a Qualified Residential Treatment Program (QRTP) designation aligned with the Family First Prevention Services Act (FFPSA) that allows for federal Medicaid dollars to be used for prevention services aimed specifically at high-risk youth poised to enter state’s custody. Healthcare providers with QRTP designation will be able to eventually draw down federal Medicaid dollars for abuse and neglect prevention services in an outpatient setting. Achieving this designation affirms that CHNK has met and exceeded multiple high bars established at the federal level for trauma-informed behavioral healthcare.