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Causes: Mental Health, Psychiatric Hospitals
Mission: Tanager place provides psychiatric, psychological, counseling, and educational services. Our clientele consists primarily of children between the ages of 5-18, with approximately 80% on some type of public assistance.
Programs: Inpatient treatment services:iowa's first psychiatric medical institution for children (pmic), this program provides inpatient treatment services to children with severe behavior disorders. The intermediate care facility for intellectually disadvantaged (icf/id) program serves children with intellectual disabilities. These inpatient programs served 160 children during the year ended june 30, 2017.
behavioral health intervention services (bhis):bhis is a medical based, in-home service program that provides skill building interventions to improve behaviors associated with a psychological disorder that has been diagnosed by a licensed practitioner. This program is funded by title 19. These services are conducted mainly at home and in the office but on occasion can be delivered at school. The bhis program served 698 children during the year ended june 30, 2017.
behavioral health clinic (outpatient):highly-qualified and licensed practitioners specialize in treatments that can significantly improve a child's mental health, including child psychiatry, individual therapy, group therapy, play therapy, music therapy and autism spectrum therapy. And, in doing so, they provide needed support for the family. Outpatient serves children and youth up through 18 years of age. This program served 1,850 children during the year ended june 30, 2017.
other services include our on-campus school clinical services program and the pediatric integrated health care coordination.