Interagency Mobilization for Progress in Adolescent and Children's Treatment
IMPACT is a statewide program which helps coordinate services for children with severe emotional disabilities. IMPACT's purpose is to find, create, coordinate, facilitate and enhance the delivery of services that will enable a child with a severe emotional disability to remain at home or within the community in lieu of psychiatric hospitalization or other institutionalization.
Pennyroyal Impact
- About 3,000 young people in this region (about 5%) may possibly qualify for the IMPACT program.
- Pennyroyal IMPACT serves eight counties in the Pennyroyal Region: Caldwell, Christian, Crittenden, Hopkins, Lyon, Muhlenberg, Todd and Trigg.
- Due to limited resources, priority is given to children currently living outside their homes, those at risk of being placed in a hospital or treatment facility or those with a history of such placement.
Who is Eligible?
- Children under age 18.
- Must have diagnosis of a psychiatric disorder (chemical dependency, mental retardation or organic brain disorder cannot be the primary diagnosis) by a mental health professional.
- Severely limited in at least two areas:
Self-care
Interpersonal relationships
Family life
Self-direction
Education
- Disabled for at least one year or at high risk to continue disability for one year or more without intervention.
- Requires service coordination/planning from two or more agencies.
How Can Families Apply?
Any parent or professional involved with the child can request help. Forms are available by contacting:
Sara Reid, CSW
IMPACT Local Resource Coordinator
Pennyroyal Center
676 North Drive - Brickyard Plaza
Hopkinsville, KY 42240
(270) 889-9891
You may also print out the forms by clicking on the "Checklist" and "Nomination" buttons above. The forms are in a pdf format, which requires Adobe Acrobat. You may download Acrobat for free from www.adobe.com.
We serve Caldwell, Christian, Crittenden, Hopkins, Lyon, Muhlenberg, Todd and Trigg Counties of Westen Kentucky.
Impact Plus
Expansion of Services
IMPACT Plus is a new funding stream for Medicaid-eligible children. It makes available a wider array of services which were not previously covered, such as:
- Therapeutic foster care
- Day treatment
- Intensive in-home therapy
- Crisis stabilization
- Therapeutic supports
Continuum of Care
Most Restrictive
Hospital Treatment:
Comprehensive psychiatric treatment in a hospital.
Residential Treatment:
Long-term treatment in home-like setting.
Crisis Residence:
Short term crisis intervention.
Therapeutic Group Home:
Program includes 6 to 10 children per home
Therapeutic Foster Care:
Child lives with surrogate family.
Respite Care:
Temporary child care to provide relief for parents.
Emergency Services:
Mobile crisis team, emergency room.
Partial Hospitalization:
Children returns home at night.
Day Treatment:
Intensive program, usually five days a week.
Home-Based Treatment:
Specially trained team works with family in home.
Office or Outpatient Clinic:
Visits usually under one hour.
Community-Based Treatment:
Specially trained individuals find and coordinate services from local agencies offering mental health, education, health, legal, social, and other services.
Least Restrictive
IMPACT Mission
As we move into the future we see…
A goal-drive service system - We are a goal driven system where a shared vision is thedriving force for decision-making.
Public trust - There is commitment to keep quality care the primary focus - to safeguard partners, missions, and tax dollars.
Expanded services through expansion of resources - There are expanded resources and sufficient funs to purchase services for each individual child and the infrastructure to support that process. Available resources include funds, technology, additional partners, or other assets needed to support service expansion.
Community actualization of core values - All relevant stakeholders advocate, collaborate, and accept responsibility. IMPACT core values are fully realized within all child serving entities.
Needs-responsive gate keeping - As individual child needs for more intensive or restrictive placement occur, RIACs play a significant role in making decisions about and management resources. Local communities determine their RIAC's specific role.
Expanded services and population - Innovative service expansion is accomplished through a complete understanding of the special needs of each individual child. Regional community assessments will identify the primary needs and utilization of all the available funds, assuring access to services across the entire RIAC region.
Early awareness and prevention - The RIAC promotes community-based awareness of comprehensive developmental issues in children. The RIAC coordinates and disseminates information focusing on early identification and prevention.
The mission of the RIAC is to enable identified children to live and function as productive community members. A RIAC accomplishes this by:
- Developing collaboration across agencies using all available expertise (public and private) __to meet ever-increasing needs;
- Coordinating existing services and developing new services;
- Developing and managing community resources;
- Advocating for children and their families in the community;
- Enhancing the capacity of families to support their child;
- Serving as a gate keeper for children recommended for residential placements as well as __for children recommended to return to the community;
- Facilitating the smooth transition of children between programs and placements and, at age __21, to adult services; and
- Providing information to the community.
Identified children can include children from prenatal to 21 years of age who are at risk of or exhibiting emotional or behavioral challenges. Additionally, these children are at risk of or in need of intensive services or are exiting a hospital or residential placement.
- Children's needs are best addressed within a community setting.
- Supporting a sustaining families is fundamental to the healthy development of children.
- Greater progress and growth is achieved when strengths are acknowledged and __interventions are designed to build an individual's identified strengths.
- A cross-disciplinary team approach enriches creativity, problem-solving, and intervention.
- Collaboration across agencies creates enhanced resources, improved quality, and greater __accountability in the community.
- Regional autonomy and flexibility assures that services are designed to meet individual child __needs within the unique distinctions of the community.
Pennyroyal Center is a private, not-for-profit organization.