Mental Health Resources for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities
Helpful Local & Online Resources
Website: https://www.autismcouncilofutah.org/
Email: autismcouncilofutah@gmail.com
The Autism Council of Utah (ACU) is an independent council working to foster collaboration, communication, and learning among families and agencies. Their aim is to promote access to resources and responsible information for individuals of all ages who have or are affected by autism, or related conditions.
Resources and available Service Providers:
- Evaluation and Treatment Options
- The Fast Start Checklist for the newly diagnosed
- Grant Information
- How to get involved
- Info on the Autism Specialty License Plate
Website: https://www.autismspeaks.org/mental-health
Autism Speaks is dedicated to promoting solutions, across the spectrum and throughout the life span, for the needs of individuals with autism and their families. We do this through advocacy and support; increasing understanding and acceptance of people with autism; and advancing research into causes and better interventions for autism spectrum disorder and related conditions.
Website: https://healthcare.utah.edu/uni/programs/autism-clinic/
Phone: 801-587-8020
Our team has extensive education and experience in understanding the needs of people with autism spectrum disorders. We work with children, adolescents, adults, and their families across the continuum of care, including public schools, hospitals, day treatment settings, and outpatient settings.
Services:
- Serves children, adolescents and adult
- Autism spectrum disorder assessment
- Social skill and recreational groups for children, adolescents and adults
- Individual/family therapy
- Parent Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT)
- Behavior intervention
- School consultations
- Early intervention services
- Opportunities to participate in research to help us better understand ASD
- Parent training
Website: https://familyhealth.utah.gov/oec/baby-watch-early-intervention/
Phone: (800) 961-4226
The purpose of the Baby Watch Early Intervention Program is to enhance early growth and development in infants and toddlers, who have developmental delays or disabilities, by providing individualized support and services to the child and their family.
Early Intervention (EI) services are provided through a family coaching model that focuses on helping children meet goals in all areas of development. All services take place in the child’s natural environment (home, child care, etc.) and are tailored to meet the individual needs of the child and family.
Website: https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/actearly/
Utah’s Act Early Ambassador email: Janel.preston@usu.edu
From birth to 5 years, your child should reach milestones in how he plays, learns, speaks, acts and moves. Track your child’s development and act early if you have a concern.
Website: https://helpmegrowutah.org/
Phone: (801) 691-5322
Help Me Grow Utah is a free information and referral helpline that provides parents, physicians, and community partners all across Utah with resources to make a difference in the lives of pregnant parents and families with children 8 and under. Here’s a quick glimpse into some of the resources they offer:
- Personalized parent support: A Parent Support Specialist to answer parenting, pregnancy, and child development questions
- Screenings: Questionnaires for parents to measure and track a child’s general and social-emotional development, and a screening to help parents throughout a pregnancy and postpartum
- Activities: Age-specific activities to strengthen child development and the parent-child bond
- Connection to community resources: Recommendations on community support (parenting classes, therapy, and more).
Website: https://intermountainhealthcare.org/primary-childrens/programs-specialties/behavioral-health
Phone: 801-313-7711
The Behavioral Health programs at Primary Children’s offer a team of professionals to help understand your child and family’s unique, individualized needs. We offer a wide range of services to treat your family at the right level of care.
Services:
- Crisis Services
- Day Treatment
- Intensive Outpatient Program
Website: https://healthcare.utah.edu/uni/programs/day-treatment.php#kidstardaytreatmentprogram
Phone: 801-583-2500
Kidstar is a daily treatment program for children 5–12 years of age that assists in clarifying the diagnosis of children with emotional and behavioral challenges.Teenscope is a daily treatment program for teens ages 12–18.
Services
- Psychiatric evaluation
- Individual and family therapy
- Psychological and educational evaluations
- School recommendations
- Social skills training
Matt’s Place will assist families and individuals ages 5-18 years old to work through challenging behavioral disorders in Outpatient Medication Management, Outpatient therapy, Partial Hospitalization (Day Treatment) setting, Intensive Outpatient Program, therapeutic after school program, or group therapies.
Services:
- Serves children, adolescents and young adults
- Day Treatment
- Intensive Outpatient
- Therapeutic after school program
- Group therapy
Website: https://library.med.utah.edu/publishing/collection/medical-home-portal-archive/
The Medical Home Portal is a unique source of reliable information about children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN). The portal is no longer active, but there is an archive of all their resources.
Services:
- General mental health information for children with special healthcare needs
- Directories of local community and professional service providers in Utah, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico and Rhode Island
Website: https://healthcare.utah.edu/uni/programs/home/
Phone: 801-581-5515
The Neurobehavior HOME program is a coordinated health care model and center of excellence for meeting the medical and mental health needs of people with developmental disabilities. We provide services to children and adults.
Services:
- Annual physical exams and well-child checks
- Behavior management services
- Case management
- Crisis management
- Dietician/nutritional counseling
- Individual and group counseling
- In-house billing and insurance support
- Medication management
- Primary medical care
- Preventive care
- Psychiatric evaluations
- Psychology services (testing)
- Specialty care referral
* Funded by Medicaid - requires Medicaid funding
Website: https://riseservicesincut.org
RISE connects passionate people with those in need and are dedicated to transforming the lives of the individuals and families they serve through the delivery of person-centered services. They offer programs and services as varied as the needs of the people they support including:
- Day services
- Afterschool/summer programs
- Employment services
- Foster care
- Supported living
Website: https://dspd.utah.gov/
The Division of Services for People with Disabilities (DSPD) promotes opportunities and provides supports for people with disabilities to lead self-determined lives by overseeing home and community-based services for more than 5,000 people who have disabilities. Support includes community living, day services, supported employment services, and many more.
Website: http://www.utahparentcenter.org/
Phone: 800-468-1160
The mission of the Utah Parent Center is to help parents help their children, youth and young adults with disabilities and special healthcare needs to live included, productive lives as members of the community.
UPC provides accurate information, empathetic peer support, valuable training and effective advocacy based on the concept of parents helping parents.
Some of the many services:
- Telephone access to the Center and trained parents (Parent Consultants) who provide one-on-one information, support and referrals.
- Support and coaching for parents who are advocating for their children’s education and healthcare.
- Workshops and presentations on a variety of topics related to special education, health and other issues pertinent to the needs of families.