Clark Center offers 24 hour emergency services, seven days a week for children facing a crisis. Additionally, community-based and out-patient services are available to address such problems as parent-child conflict, stress, school performance, peer issues, substance abuse and self-esteem. For 24-hour crisis assistance, call 1-800-801-4405.

Outpatient counseling and psychotherapy are available with licensed psychologists, licensed clinical social workers, and licensed professional counselors. These services include individual and family therapy. To enhance accessibility and to increase awareness about mental health issues, Clark Center continues to work collaboratively with community partners in the field of children’s health and human services. Clark Center provides mental health screenings for the 39th Circuit Juvenile Court as well we provide assessment and consultation to local school districts.

Clark provides Intensive In-Home Services (IIS) to maintain children, at immediate risk of out-of-home placement, safely within their family unit by providing the family with intensive, comprehensive, in-home services such as: parenting skills, behavior modification, resource acquisition, child development, housing resources and limited transportation. The intervention is short-term, lasting four to six weeks.

For children and youth experiencing severe emotional disturbance (SED), Clark Center offers community-based programming consisting of Community Psychiatric Rehabilitation (CPR) and Targeted Case Management (TCM). These programs incorporate the wrap-around approach of treatment by assuring that service systems and community supports are maximally responsive to the specific, multiple and changing needs of the individual child and family. In accordance with an individually tailored service plan, a care coordinator would help access, coordinate, and monitor mental health and related services.

For more information on children's mental health you may wish to vist the Show-Me Kids website