The Behavioral Health Network (BNet)
The Behavioral Health Network (BNet) is a comprehensive behavioral health care plan for children actively enrolled Florida KidCare, Inc., a statewide health care plan for children.
BNet serves children ages 5 through 19, who are not enrolled in Medicaid. BNet treats the entire spectrum of mental health disorders and provides both children and their parents with intense behavioral health planning and treatment services for the duration of the child’s enrollment.
BNet Mental Health Services are customized to the needs of each child and includes:
- In-home and outpatient individual and family counseling
- In-home and outpatient targeted case management
- Psychiatry services and medication management including direct access to PEMHS’ pharmacy with no co-pays
- Advocacy and provision for wrap-around services to meet each child’s social, educational, nutritional and physical activity needs.
- Specialty services including Behavioral Analysis, Trauma Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
For more information to enroll in Florida KidCare call Florida KidCare, Inc.: (1-888-540-5437) or visit www.floridakidcare.org.
For BNet eligibility call Gayle McNeill, LMHC at (727) 362-4225 or email: gmcneill@pemhs.org
Program Description:
The BNet model is an integrated service delivery approach that utilizes a team of individuals that provide in-home counseling, targeted case management, and psychiatric services. The services comprehensively address the needs of the young person and their family who are experiencing behavioral, emotional, and/or mental health difficulties. The goals of the BNet program are to: improve school-related outcomes; decrease out-of-home placements; improve family and youth functioning; decrease substance use and abuse; decrease psychiatric hospitalization; increase health wellness; and transition into age-appropriate services.
Who is eligible:
• Young people ages 5-19 with a mental health diagnosis and a GAF score of 49 or below and
• Florida Kid care Insurance (Title XXI)
Services we offer:
• Individual and Family Therapy;
• Case Management services;
• Psychiatric services to include but are not limited to Psychiatric Evaluations and medication management;
• On-site pharmacy; and
• Wrap around services which include but are not limited to extracurricular activities, tutoring assistance, summer programs and activities, financial stabilization funds, etc.
The discharge planning process includes the following concepts:
• Planning begins at admission;
• Includes ongoing discussion as part of the Plan of Care Review;
• Includes active involvement of the young person and their family;
• Includes transition to the adult mental health and other systems, as appropriate; and
• Includes an aftercare plan developed in collaboration with the young person and family that is provided to them. The aftercare plan should take advantage of all community services and supports.