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.
To qualify for the Intensive In-Home Services program, the individual must:
- Be Virginia Medicaid eligible;
- Demonstrate a clinical need for the service arising from a mental, emotional, or behavioral disorder;
- Be at risk for removal from their home in placements such as psychiatric hospitalization, juvenile detention, therapeutic foster care, or residential treatment facility;
- Demonstrate significantly inappropriate social behavior or engage in dangerous activities without recognizing the danger they are in or are placing others in;
- Have received lesser restrictive services without success in changing behavior.
