United Methodist Childrens Home

Umch family services focuses on strengthening the children, adolescents and their families through counseling and supportive services. Our multidisciplinary treatment team is comprised of masters-level clinicians, licensed community psychiatric support providers, registered nurses, and medication prescribers, including clinical nurse practitioners and psychiatrists. Our outpatient behavioral health team uses the newest evidence-based and evidence-informed practices. We work hand in hand with parents and guardians, as well as partner with schools and pediatricians to bring a dynamic, comprehensive approach to our process. Treatment is individualized and unique for every child. Outpatient services provided for 603 clients in 2024. Psychiatry is a critical service in our outpatient program, especially if medication can help address a child's problems. Psychiatric providers are the medical staff on the child's team. Psychiatrists and psychiatric nurse practitioners can evaluate a child for the need for further testing, help parents and children understand the illness and prescribe medication. Often medication in concert with psychotherapy or "talk therapy" is the most effective way to help children and their families improve their situations. Helping families understand the biological reasons for a child's illness is very helpful in managing the symptoms they deal with every day. 442 clients served in 2024.

Umch family services has a long-standing heritage in and around adoption. For more than a century, we have been helping to create forever families through adoption. In fact, many children were adopted from what used to be referred to as the children's home in our earlier years. Over the years, we received numerous inquiries about the adoption process fueling the creation of our formal adoption program that operates with a dedicated adoption coordinator to handle all inquiries and to guide our clients through the adoption process.umch family services believes it is important to help forever families stay together. Adoption can bring a unique set of challenges for a child, adoptive parents and extended family throughout the lifelong process of adoption. Our post adoption clinicians understand how a child's pre-adoption experiences influence life in their adoptive home. 649 children served in 2024.

Umch family services provides the caminos program in partnership with the board of childcare. The caminos program serves unaccompanied children referred by the office of refugee resettlement (orr). Services included in the umch family services caminos continuum include, home study / post release services. The program served 724 children in 2024.