What can you expect from your IFI provider?
(Intensive Family Intervention)
IFI is set up to work in a team mentality. Our teams are led by a Licensed ProfessionalCounselor (LPC) a team of three to four other providers who work as a cohesive unit to minimize the crisis that your family is going through at the time. After receiving your referral, the LPC will call you and schedule a time to come to your home. The LPC, team leader, will sit with you and listen to the needs that you and your child have. He or she will then complete a treatment plan that will be explained to you in detail on the second home visit. After visiting your home the team gathers together to discuss the needs of the family and the LPC then picks from the team one or two other Crisis Support Individuals (orCSI’s) who are specially trained to work with you and your child. It is understood that the needs that your family are going through are severe. As such, IFI teams work intensively with your family for a time limited period. We are required to see the family a minimum of three times a week. However, in the most severe of needs, we are authorized to work with your family as much as 12 hours a day.We are available to your family literally 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and have a team member who can be to your home within two hours, regardless of time, day or night. So how long do we work with your family? As stated, we are a time-limited service. This means that though the services are intensive, we will not be in your home forever. When we receive authorization to work with you, it is initially for no more than 90days. In the most severe of circumstances we might acquire authorization for another 90 days. However, the intent of this service is to minimize the problem being experienced in the home and then transition to another provider who can supply a less intensive service for you. How is IFI funded? Most IFI services are funded through Medicaid.We work with children who have regular Medicaid such as foster care and SSI.
What can you expect from your IFI provider?
(Intensive Family Intervention)
IFI is set up to work in a team mentality. Our teams are led by a Licensed ProfessionalCounselor (LPC) a team of three to four other providers who work as a cohesive unit to minimize the crisis that your family is going through at the time. After receiving your referral, the LPC will call you and schedule a time to come to your home. The LPC, team leader, will sit with you and listen to the needs that you and your child have. He or she will then complete a treatment plan that will be explained to you in detail on the second home visit. After visiting your home the team gathers together to discuss the needs of the family and the LPC then picks from the team one or two other Crisis Support Individuals (orCSI’s) who are specially trained to work with you and your child. It is understood that the needs that your family are going through are severe. As such, IFI teams work intensively with your family for a time limited period. We are required to see the family a minimum of three times a week. However, in the most severe of needs, we are authorized to work with your family as much as 12 hours a day.We are available to your family literally 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and have a team member who can be to your home within two hours, regardless of time, day or night. So how long do we work with your family? As stated, we are a time-limited service. This means that though the services are intensive, we will not be in your home forever. When we receive authorization to work with you, it is initially for no more than 90days. In the most severe of circumstances we might acquire authorization for another 90 days. However, the intent of this service is to minimize the problem being experienced in the home and then transition to another provider who can supply a less intensive service for you. How is IFI funded? Most IFI services are funded through Medicaid.We work with children who have regular Medicaid such as foster care and SSI.
How do I start services?
You can call the New Pathways office at 1-678-813-3248 or 1- 804-231-9344 and ask to have a initial assessment. We are currently serving Fulton, DeKalb, Clayton,Cobb, Dawson, Forsyth, Banks Cherokee, Hall, Lumpkin, Pickens and Gwinnett County .
You can call the New Pathways office at 1-678-813-3248 or 1- 804-231-9344 and ask to have a initial assessment. We are currently serving Fulton, DeKalb, Clayton,Cobb, Dawson, Forsyth, Banks Cherokee, Hall, Lumpkin, Pickens and Gwinnett County .
Resources
Cobb CSB Counties Served: 3830 S. Cobb Drive, Suite 300 Cherokee, Cobb, Douglas Smyrna, GA 30080 Phone: (770) 429-5000 Bryan Stephens, Interim CEO Fax: (770) 528-9824 bgstephens@cobbcsb.com
Avita Community Partners Counties Served: 4331 Thurmond Tanner Road Banks, Dawson, Forsyth, Franklin, Flowery Branch, GA 30542 Habersham, Hall, Hart, Lumpkin, Rabun, Phone: (678) 513-5700 Stephens, Towns, Union, White Fax: (678) 513-5829 Cindy Levi, CEO cindy.levi@avitapartners.org
Behavioral Health Emergency Receiving Facilities
CRISIS STABILIZATION UNITS: Highland Rivers Community Service Board 1401 Applewood Drive, Suite 1 CEO: Melanie Dallas Dalton, GA 30720 melaniedallas@highlandrivers.org Treatment Services/Crisis Stabilization Program 900 Shugart Road Steve Sisson, RN Dalton, GA 30720 stevesisson@highlandrivers.org Phone: (706) 275-5107 Medical Director: Ujwal Siddam Reddy, MD Fax: (706) 270-5102
Crisis Stabilization Program Residential Treatment Unit 180 Water Oak Drive Sherrie Dunaway, ASN/RN Cedartown, GA 30125 sherriedunaway@highlandrivers.org Phone: (770) 748-0030 Medical Director: Nizamuddin Khaja, MD Fax: (770) 748-0193 Rome Adult Crisis Stabilization Program 1 Woodbine Avenue Tommy Brooks, Nurse Manager Rome, GA 30165 tommybrooks@highlandrivers.org Phone: (706) 314-0019 Medical Director: Joseph Kent Seal, MD Fax: (706) 314-0343
Avita Community Partners Community Service Board 4331 Thurmond Tanner Parkway Director: Cindy Levi Flowery Branch, GA 30542 cindy.levi@avitapartners.org Avita Crisis Stabilization Program Phone: (678) 960-2700 Mary Donna McAvoy, Nurse Manager Fax: (678) 513-5833 mary.mcavoy@avitapartners.org Medical Director: Karim Gokal, MD
Cobb-Douglas Community Service Board 3830 S. Cobb Drive, Suite 30 Interim Director: Bryan Stephens Smyrna, GA 30080 bgstephens@cobbcsb.com Cobb Behavioral Health Crisis Center (BHCC) 1758 County Services Pkwy Medical Director: Vacant Marietta, GA 30008 Site Director: Dodie Whitley Phone: (404) 794-4857 awhitley@cobbcsb.com
Community Service Providers Located in Region 3 Georgia Crisis & Access Line – (800) 715-4225 Fulton County BHDD Counties Served:
99 Jesse Hill Drive, SE, 4th Floor Fulton Atlanta, GA 30303
Phone: (404) 613-1202 Kathleen Toomey kathleen.toomey@fultoncountyga.gov ***
Clayton Center Community Service Board Counties Served:
112 Broad Street Clayton Jonesboro, GA 30236-1919
Phone: (770) 478-2280 Aundria Cheever, CEO Fax: (770) 477-9772 aundria.cheever@claytoncenter.org ***
DeKalb Community Service Board Counties Served:
445 Winn Way, Room 464 DeKalb Decatur, GA 30030-1707
Phone: (404) 294-3836 Joseph Bona, MD, Director Fax: (404) 508-7795 josephb@dekcsb.org ***
View Point Health Counties Served:
175 Gwinnett Drive, Suite 260
Gwinnett, Newton, Rockdale
Lawrenceville, GA 30346 Phone: (678) 209-2370
Jennifer Hibbard, CEO Fax: (678) 212-6308 jennifer.hibbard@vphealth.org