Behavioral Support Team
The Behavior Support Team (BeST) provides a timely and
supportive response to families caring for children with
developmental disabilities and behavioral challenges. BeST
provides weekday telephone and outreach intervention, between
the hours of 8:00am and 8:00pm, to King County children and
youth ages 3-17 who are currently enrolled clients of
Washington's Region 4 Division of Developmental Disabilities.
The services are provided by Masters level family therapists and
range from phone consultation to Intensive Family Preservation
Services. The length of the intervention ranges from a 15-minute
telephone call to 8-12 weeks of intensive in-home services, which
include behavior assessment, family counseling and linkages to
other service providers. In most cases the team does not provide
primary crisis intervention but is the second line of crisis
response.
The goal of all interventions is to alleviate the current
crisis, reduce frequency and severity of future crises, and
build skills in the child/youth and family to assist them in
managing problematic behaviors effectively by utilizing the
strengths, resources and existing networks of support in the
community of the child/youth and family.
To
reach the Behavioral Support Team, call
1-800-318-KIDS (1-800-318-5437)
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The experiences of childhood influence each life in profound
ways. At Seattle Children’s Home we help children and their
families face situational, emotional and developmental
challenges through a broad range of counseling, therapeutic and
psychiatric services aimed at helping our children create solid
emotional foundations for successful futures.
