West Virginia Child Welfare Adding Intensive Residential Behavioral Health Services To Service Continuum

The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR), Bureau for Children and Families (BCF) is expanding the continuum of behavioral health services for youth ages 12 to 21 in foster care. As part of West Virginia’s response to the federal Family First Prevention Services Act, DHHR intends to implement Qualified Residential Treatment Programs (QRTP), an intensive residential behavioral health model, across the state.

The QRTP facilities will be for youth who require an intensive, non-family residential setting and who have traditionally been served in out-of-state facilities. This population of youth includes those who have . . .