School-based Services

School-based services help improve students’ attendance, classroom behavior, and academic performance. Our school-based clinicians listen, guide, and encourage students while advocating on their behalf. Clinicians facilitate individual, group, and family counseling...

Parent / Child Interaction Therapy

Most every parent has experienced a young child’s occasional temper tantrum. But when meltdowns, testing limits, throwing things, hitting, and shoving begin to make life impossible, it’s time for an intervention. Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), now available...

Outpatient Counseling

Outpatient counseling is a process of courageous conversations with a trained counselor that can help children, teens, and parents or guardians in difficult situations. Some children need to heal from the effects of a traumatic event, abuse, neglect, or family...

Outpatient Therapeutic Support for Families

Our statewide Outpatient/Therapeutic Support for Families (OP/TSF) program is for children and teens who need more than one counseling session per week. Children who benefit from OP/TSF are often dealing with complicated behavioral health issues and may have been...

Family-Based Mental Health Services

The Family-Based Mental Health Services program (FBMHS) at DGS provides care for children and families with the most complicated  behavioral health  needs. Children who benefit from FBMHS are usually at risk for out-of-home placement such as a hospital, residential...
Delaware 211

Delaware 211

Through this initiative, families can call Delaware 211 and press 4 to get connected to resources to help them better support the educational development of their children.

Project THRIVE

Project THRIVE

A new initiative by the Department of Education (Project THRIVE) to provide support for children who have been traumatized. Support provided through licensed therapists in the community, experienced in trauma informed practice, at no charge to families.