Petersburg City Public Schools is seeking to partner with a local mental health agency to provide Medicaid funded Therapeutic Day Treatment (TDT) to eligible students in individual schools. Per DMAS, “Therapeutic Day Treatment services are a combination of therapeutic interventions combined with evaluation, medication education and management, opportunities to learn and use daily skills to enhance social and interpersonal skills (e.g. problem solving, anger management, community responsibility, increased impulse control, and appropriate peer relations) and individual, group, and family psychotherapy offered in programs of two or more hours per day with children and adolescents.” The provider should provide TDT to eligible students that include the following, as appropriate: A. Opportunities and activities to learn and enhance: •Social and interpersonal skills •Anger management • Impulse control and self-regulation •Decision making •Problem-solving skills Appropriate peer relations Other individual and/or group topics including communication skills, stress management, family living skills, health, citizenship and career linkages, as well as topics suggested by school staff. C. Individual and group counseling D. Consultative Services - The provider will consult with school staff such as school administrators, psychologists, social workers, behavior specialists, behavior interventionists, school counselors and teachers to support eligible students on the provider's caseload.
