Family & Children’s Services
Integrea offers a wide range of mental health services to children and adolescents who are experiencing serious emotional disturbances.
Outpatient and school-based counseling
Family & Children’s Services
Our services include:
Early Connections
Parent Pathways
Parent Pathways supports expectant parents and caregivers from pregnancy through early childhood. This program focuses on mental health, parenting readiness, and building strong, loving relationships between caregivers and their children.
Services are trauma-informed and may take place in the clinic, in the home or both. By addressing stress and trauma early, Parent Pathways helps prevent child abuse and neglect and supports strong, resilient families. Services may include:
- Mental health counseling
- Parenting and life skills support
- Family and caregiver support
- Parent education
- Care coordination to connect families with helpful resources
Please note: At this time, Parent Pathways is only available to Lee County residents. Through generous local support and our partnerships with the United Way of Lee County and the Auburn University Kappa Delta Sorority, eligible Lee County families may receive Early Connections services at no out-of-pocket cost.
Child & Caregiver Therapy
Our Child & Caregiver Therapy program provides trauma-informed mental health services for children, up to age 7, and the adults who care for them. The focus is on strengthening the parent-child relationship, supporting emotional regulation, and addressing challenging behaviors.
Our team works closely with families through therapy, family support, and care coordination to reduce stress, build resiliency, and support long-term emotional health.
Growing Minds
Growing Minds is a classroom-based therapeutic program for preschool-aged children with emotional, behavioral, and at times co-occurring developmental needs.
Children learn social-emotional skills, self-regulation, and kindergarten readiness in a structured, trauma-informed environment. Caregivers are actively involved through education and ongoing communication.
Please Note: Growing Minds is housed at our Family & Children’s Services location in Opelika, Alabama.
Child & Adolescent Substance Use
The Child and Adolescent Substance Use program provides outpatient treatment and intervention for children and adolescents who abuse/use drugs and alcohol. Service interventions are designed to promote and sustain sobriety following the evidenced-based Motivational Interviewing Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Curriculum.
Services include:
Learn more about all of our Substance Use services.
Intensive Home-Based Services
Intensive Home-Based Services (IHBS) are community-based services to help children, youth, young adults and their families with mental health needs. These services can help them succeed at home, at school, and in the community.
IHBS ensures access to high-quality mental health outreach, treatment, recovery, and support services for children, youth, and young adults. These services may also lower the need for hospital visits and placements outside of the home.
Child & Adolescent (C&A) In-Home Intervention (IHI)
Child & Adolescent (C&A) In-Home Intervention (IHI) is a structured, consistent, strength-based therapy provided by a two-person team.
Therapeutic and rehabilitative services include:
- Individual counseling
- Family counseling, education and support
- Basic living skills
- Crisis intervention
- Medication monitoring
- Therapeutic mentoring
- Mental health consultation
Intensive Care Coordination (ICC)
Intensive Care Coordination (ICC) is a case management service. A Care Coordinator works directly with the child, youth, or young adult and their family.
ICC plans services, coordinates support, and monitors a care plan that includes medically necessary services. There are two levels of Care Coordination: Low Intensity Care Coordination (LICC) and High Intensity Care Coordination (HICC). HICC meets with your family more often than LICC.
Certified Youth Peer Support (CPS-Y)
Certified Youth Peer Support (CPS-Y) is based on sharing lived experiences. It is a service that provides structured and scheduled activities for individuals aged 10-21.
CPS-Y helps with social interaction, recovery, and speaking up for oneself. It helps build community living skills and identify natural supports, and is provided by a young adult who has similar lived experience.
Certified Parent Peer Support (CPS-P)
Certified Parent Peer Support (CPS-P) is based on sharing lived experiences. It is a service that provides structured and scheduled activities. CPS -P helps with social interaction, recovery, and speaking up for oneself. It helps build community living skills and identify natural supports, and is provided by a parent with similar lived experience.
Therapeutic Mentoring (TM)
Therapeutic Mentoring (TM) is a structured, one-on-one skill-building intervention for a child or youth. Support services help the child reach age-appropriate behaviors by restoring daily living, social, and communication skills that have been adversely impacted by a mental health condition.
