Recommended Service: CTSS - Children's Therapeutic Services and Supports

CTSS is a flexible, rehabilitative mental health program designed to support children and young adults with emotional or behavioral challenges, helping them achieve age-appropriate functioning.
Overview
CTSS, or Children’s Therapeutic Services and Supports, is a set of mental health services aimed at children, adolescents, and young adults up to age 21 who have emotional disturbances or diagnosed mental illnesses that impair daily functioning (such as anxiety, depression, aggression, or family conflict) and require therapeutic intervention beyond standard outpatient care. The program is covered by Minnesota Health Care Programs (MHCP) and is delivered by certified agencies, schools, or tribal organizations.

RCCP-M13-7590

He is new-to-country, arriving in June from The Gambia. He is English-speaking.

He has a record in the past month of trying to wander around – likely a cultural habit of wandering around the community, saying hi to people, just kinda hanging out. He wanders and then often returns within a few hours.

Current dx: Adjustment Disorder due to transitions related to moving to the US and living with mom.

Mid-October, he tried to force another male youth to perform oral sex on him. 5th Deg CSC charges pending. He has a pending Rule 20 competency eval & full psych eval.

He was in a CADI home where we contract for a crisis bed (no current waiver). Over the weekend, he punched 2 peers and was discharged.

Current VPA to allow placement authority to Ramsey County.

Goal is to return him to The Gambia.

Placement History
9/13-9/15: hospital
9/15-9/18: foster home, disrupted placement
9/18-10/4: various hospitals
10/4-10/10: foster home, attempted to force another youth to perform oral sex on him
10/10-10/13: JDC
10/14-10/18: CADI crisis home
10/18-today (10/22): various hospitals