Family Services Overview

Our Mission
To provide opportunities to children, youths, families and other individuals to be more responsible for their own lives and to strengthen their relationships with others.

Our Vision
To create bright futures for children, their families and communities.

Services

FAMILY SERVICES OVERVIEW

Highfields offers many services in various local communities. Community-based counseling services to children, youth and families can be accessed directly by contacting us, others must be accessed through a County Court, the Department of Human Services (DHS) or a Mental Health Authority. Many programs are limited to residents in specific counties.

A common thread unites the community-based counseling services. Highfields recognizes that when people receive services at their earliest point of need, they are able to resolve challenges more quickly and often prevent the need for more intense intervention and out-of-home placement. To help families, Highfields provides numerous community-based service options. The options are usually-home-based, individual or family centered and are provided during times convenient to the consumer. All home-based counseling services for children, youth and families:

Occur in the consumer's home
Are strength-based and goal-driven
Are customized to meet the consumer's needs.

All family services provided by Highfields are nationally accredited.

Alternatives to Domestic Violence - Family counseling and offender groups, self-referral or court ordered, fee for service, groups located in Lansing and Jackson.

Youth & Family Alternatives - For youth age 12-16 who have been charged with assaulting a family member, service available in Ingham county.

Behavioral Health Services - Office-based counseling for children, families and adults in Lansing and Jackson, Physicians Health Plan/PHP, PHP Medicaid, M-Care, M-Care Medicaid, Traditional Blue Cross/Blue Shield, and other insurances managed by United Beahavioral Health are accepted.

Wraparound - For families whose children are at risk of out-of-home placement (self-referral possibility), service available in Clinton, Eaton and Jackson counties.

Family Reunification Services - For children returning home from foster care, DHS referral, service available in Branch, Calhoun, Hillsdale, and Jackson.

Families Together Building Solutions (FTBS) - For families with open protective services involvement, DHS referral, service available in Barry, Branch, Eaton and Gratiot counties.

Girls/Gender Specific (GGS) - For at-risk girls in Ingham County.

Outreach Counseling - For families with an open DHS case, DHS referral, service available in Clinton, Eaton, Hillsdale, Ingham, and Jackson counties.

Family Preservation Program - For children with delinquency charges, DHS referral, service available in Ingham county.

Family Preservation Services - Home-based counseling for children with mental health diagnosis, Lenawee Community Mental Health referrals only.

Multi-Systemic Therapy - For families who have a child with severe emotional disability exhibiting anti-social behaviors. LifeWays approved referrals only, service available in Jackson and Hillsdale counties.

Home-Based Services - Home-based counseling for children with mental health diagnosis, LifeWays approved referrals only, service available in Jackson and Hillsdale counties.