The Center for Health Care Services Children’s Division

The Center for Health Care Services (CHCS) is a leading integrated behavioral healthcare provider in San Antonio, Texas. They’ve over fifty years of experience helping communities navigate mental health disorders, substance use challenges and co-occurring conditions. Their Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic delivers tailored care to children, adults and families across Bexar County. Whether you’re dealing with addiction or need psychiatric support, their team of compassionate professionals can help you find lasting solutions for an independent and productive life.

Services are provided in welcoming outpatient environments that inspire behavioral changes and personal growth. They accept Medicaid and Medicare alongside CHIP and offer sliding fee scales for the uninsured. This ensures you won’t get denied care due to your inability to pay.

Their Children and Adolescents Services in San Antonio serve individuals aged 3 to 17. This outpatient program is situated along Bandera Road in the Leon Valley suburbs within Bexar County just northwest of San Antonio.

CHCS’s outpatient mental health support for children and teens addresses varying issues like low self-esteem, academic problems and school bullying. Others are abuse and trauma, depression, anxiety and peer pressures or social isolation that may lead one to experiment with drugs and alcohol.

The program equips young ones with practical tools to cope with these issues via life skills training and counseling. They particularly target those with DSM-V diagnoses. Services also include psychiatric evaluation as well as medication training and monitoring. Family involvement is highly emphasized to create positive dynamics and strengthen your support network.

CHCS coordinates care within their network of clinics. That means you can be referred to a sister clinic within Bexar County if the services you need aren’t accessible here. Other children and teen services available in CHCS include 24/7 crisis intervention for teens with acute psychiatric and addictive disorders. They also offer home-based counseling and case management, juvenile justice programs and youth empowerment programs among many others.

Teens with primary substance use disorders are referred to the Restoration Center. This is the hub of CHCS’s addiction recovery programs with services ranging from medical detox and inpatient rehab to outpatient care and sober housing. They also offer specialized opioid addiction treatments, co-occurring disorders care and recovery programs for pregnant and postpartum women.