NorthStar is proud to offer CTSS within the St. Louis, Carlton, and Pine County area. Additionally we have a CTSS Day Treatment starting in the Cloquet Middle School fall 2025!
Children’s Therapeutic Services and Supports (CTSS) are a set of mental health services developed to provide restorative rehabilitative interventions covered by Minnesota Health Care Programs (MHCP) to children and their families. CTSS establishes policies and practices for certification and coverage of mental health services for children who require varying therapeutic and rehabilitative levels of intervention in their homes or elsewhere in the community.
Children’s Day Treatment for children’s therapeutic services and supports (CTSS) is a site-based, structured mental health treatment program. It consists of individual or group psychotherapy for two or more individuals, and individual or group skills training provided by a team, under the treatment supervision of a mental health professional. A children’s day treatment program must provide staffing and facilities to ensure the member’s health, safety, and protection of rights, and that the programs are able to implement each member’s individual treatment plan.
The goals of Day Treatment services are to:
- Stabilize the child’s mental health status
- Develop and improve the child’s independent living and socialization skills
- Reduce or relieve the effects of mental illness
- Provide training to enable the child to live in the community
- Are not part of inpatient or residential treatment services
