Our Behavioral Health Services: A Child & Family Team Approach
Pantano Behavioral Health Services, Inc. (Pantano) is a comprehensive service provider (CSP) contracted with Community Partnership of Southern Arizona to provide publicly funded behavioral health services in Pima County.
Pantano serves children, adolescents, and young adults 18-21 who are Medicaid eligible through the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS). Pantano also serves children and adults from the Tohono O’odham Nation.
The people we serve may:
- Be performing poorly at school.
- Seem very shy, or sad, or angry.
- Have trouble getting along with family or friends.
- Have substance abuse problems.
- Have recently experienced trauma.
Services provided by Pantano to help children and their families include:
- Comprehensive initial assessment
- Intensive in-home services
- Child and Family Teams
- Behavioral management services
- Substance abuse treatment
- Case management
- School-based counseling services
- Psychiatric assessment and treatment
- Residential treatment
- Therapeutic foster care
- 24 hour emergency crisis services
Our AHCCCS-funded services are designed to help our members achieve success in school, remain with their families, avoid delinquency and develop into stable, productive adults.
To achieve these results, we tailor services to fit the needs of the individual child and his or her family. We use a collaborative process centered on the Child and Family Team (CFT). This best-practice approach addresses the child’s and the family’s needs, respects the family’s cultural heritage and supports independence by encouraging the family to engage its own support network.
The family’s support network may include relatives, friends, and other community service providers engaged with the family. Through the collaborative CFT process, a plan to meet the family’s needs is developed. The plan may include one or more of our services.
Our services span a wide continuum from basic medication monitoring with a psychiatrist to a stay at a hospital, from once weekly group counseling to daily, intensive in-home treatment, from once monthly respite to out-of-home care. Many of these services are provided by our partners -- Arizona’s Children Association and Intermountain Centers for Human Development -- or by one of our outstanding contracted providers.