Bellefaire Jewish Childrens Bureau

Community service & outpatient counseling: this division provides effective and caring treatment for children, youth and families who are experiencing a variety of mental health problems. Services are tailored to fit each child and family and are provided by professionally licensed and trained staff members. Services include: aod counseling, counseling, psychotherapy, testing and assessment. Bjcb provides services covering a broad range of behavioral challenges including depression, divorce, abuse, attention deficit disorder and other issues. After school program: a community based, out patient therapeutic group treatment program for children ages 6 through 18 that have emotional or behavioral challenges. School based & special services: provides school based behavioral health and substance abuse counseling for children and adolescents in 100 schools in cleveland and the first ring suburban districts, medina and lorain schools and is committed to 1)remaining in the forefront of the youth services and child care fields 2)responding to emerging needs 3)building knowledge that contributes to services for children, youth and their families and 4)advocating on their behalf. Through bellefaires lorain, medina and cuyahoga county locations they provided over 355,000 hours of counseling and services. These included both mental health and alcohol and drug services.

Education: providing a nationally recognized set of services for children and youth with autism spectrum disorder as well as education and mentoring programs for normally developing children, youth and their families. Monarch center for autism: established in 2000, the monarch school has quickly become a nationally recognized leader in autism treatment. Ohios first chartered, non-public school for autism, monarch provides an ideal special education experience where even those with the most severely afflicted autism can learn, grow and thrive. Monarchs dynamic visually-based learning approach and enhanced curriculum maximizes each childs unique capacity to learn and communicate. Monarch is a year round, full service center that offers a broad array of programs including an extended school year program, a pre-school and the regions only summer program for children with autism. Early childhood services: bjcb maintains a licensed and accredited early childhood learning center that provides specialized full day care for the local community for children from infancy to age five.

Foster care, adoption and other: the foster care program provides safe foster homes for youth who have been abused, neglected traumatized, and have mental health issues. Bellefaire offers several levels of foster care: traditional, specialized and therapeutic. The youth are placed in homes with specially trained foster parents where they receive individualized, highly structured intensive treatment in a nurturing family environment. Foster care services provided over 4,300 service days for the year for approximately 24 youth. Bjcb is committed to achieving permanent placement for children in foster care. Bellefaires adoption program provides expert assistance to all members of the adoptive triad. Birth parents, adoptive parents and adopters through domesting, interstate or international adoptions. The adoption program provides services for over 125 families per year.