Carlton, Lake, Cook and St. Louis Counties contract with HDC to provide case management services to adults and children with serious mental health issues. Case managers work closely with individuals and families to help them access needed supports and services to maximize independence, mental health, and community integration.

Available Locations: Carlton, Cook, Lake, St. Louis

CTSS is designed to help children under the age of 18 with mental health, emotional and/or behavioral issues. This service is based on the unique and changing needs of the child and is designed to improve the child’s functioning within the family and community. CTSS activities take place in the child’s home and the community and referrals for services come from County Social Services. CTSS is available in St. Louis and Carlton Counties.

Available Locations: Carlton, St. Louis

Eating disorders are highly complex, bio-psychosocial problems which require specialized care for effective treatment. The Human Development Center’s Eating Disorders Treatment Program, led by Dr. Carolyn Phelps, provides expert specialized care to people of all ages suffering from Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, and Binge Eating/Compulsive Overeating, regardless of gender. We provide help to females and males of all ages, who:

• Self starve
• Diet constantly
• Purge, vomit, use laxatives or diet pills
• Binge eat or eat compulsively
• Over-exercise
• Over-train
• Have body image problems
• Think obsessively or excessively about food, weight, shape and/or physical appearance
• Are experiencing problems after bariatric surgery

We also address the special needs of eating disordered athletes, dancers, and patients with co-existing and co-complicating medical (e.g., diabetes) and psychological (e.g., depression, anxiety) problems.

The Eating Disorders Treatment Program offers the following services:

• Comprehensive Assessment
• Individual Outpatient Therapy
• Intensive Outpatient Therapy
• Family/Couples Therapy
• Consultation
• Psychological Evaluation for Bariatric Surgery
• Training and Education

Confidential, expert, professional help is available by calling (218) 728-4491

Available Locations: St. Louis

Through its Center for Forensic Mental Health, HDC offers a variety of court-ordered forensic evaluations, including evaluations of Competency to Stand Trial, Criminal Responsibility, Juvenile Certification Evaluations, Civil Commitment, CHIPS Parenting, Pre-Sentencing and psychosexual evaluations. In addition, the Center offers Pre-Employment/Fitness for Duty Evaluations and offender treatment. Evaluations are available for all counties. For scheduling, please contact Karla Terry at (218) 730-2366. For other questions about these evaluations, please call Anita Schlank, Ph.D. at (218) 302-8673.

Available Locations: Carlton, Cook, Douglas, Lake, St. Louis

In-Home services are designed for families where a child’s problems interfere significantly with school performance and/or success in the community. Our program focuses on the strengths and abilities of the family. Intensive In-Home services are designed to present a non-threatening approach to the family, lower stress and family conflict, reduce the chance of out-of-home placement whenever possible and appropriate, provide skills training such as anger control, parenting techniques, conflict resolution, stress management, and communication, educate the family the regarding child’s mental health issues, and link family to community services. Families who qualify for the program must meet the following criteria:

• Must be receiving Medical Assistance. Cost is $0 to the family.
• Must be willing to allow the team to visit the home for up to 6-8 hours per week.

Please call (715) 392-8216 for more information.

Available Locations: Douglas

HDC offers Adult Chemical Dependency Outpatient Treatment in Douglas County. Clients can choose between group therapy, support groups, women’s recovery groups, or individual sessions. Counselors are trained in different modalities of treatment such as twelve step/disease model and cognitive behavioral concepts.

The Outpatient Chemical Dependency Program works closely with the psychiatry and mental health professionals at HDC to ensure that clients are receiving the all inclusive care that is necessary in each individual case.

HDC also offers Adolescent Chemical Dependency Treatment on an outpatient basis. Adolescents struggling with drug and/or alcohol abuse have education, treatment and individual sessions with trained counselors available to them. The adolescent treatment program focuses on the many complex reasons that teens experiment with drugs rather than using the “just say no” adage.

Available Locations: Douglas

Project Reach Out works to improve the network of support to both youth and their families through confidential and voluntary crisis intervention referral service. Each year, many Wisconsin families are confronted with a crisis such as a teen runaway. Teens run for a variety of reasons. These reasons can include; unresolved conflict, lack of communication and differences over roles, rules, and expectatations. Project Reach Out can help you during these difficult times. This program’s goals are to alleviate the problems of runaway and homeless youth by insuring that each community has access to 24 hour crisis intervention services; to reunite youth with their families when appropriate, and encourage the resolution of inter-family problems through mediation and other services; to strengthen family relationships and encourage stable living conditions for youth; and to help youth decide upon a constructive course of action and constructive decision making in a nonjudgmental atmosphere. Most services are offered for free or a minimal fee. For more information call (715) 394-9177 or our 24 hour hotline at 1-800-777-7844.

Available Locations: Douglas

These services are provided at all HDC locations and include evaluations, treatment, and medication management of depression, anxiety, and other psychiatric disorders. Our staff of psychiatrists and psychiatric nurses are skilled in pharmacology for children and adults.

Services are offered at our offices as well as several contracted locations, to include nursing homes, assisted living facilities, brain injury programs, juvenile centers, children’s residential treatment programs, and correctional facilities. Psychiatry also has services available via ITV to Cook County, St. Peter, and other locations. Most major insurance plans are accepted; we also have a sliding fee scale for uninsured clients.

Current access is limited to clients receiving other service(s) at HDC.

Available Locations: Carlton, Cook, Douglas, Lake, St. Louis

Services performed at HDC include psychological evaluations and assessments with children, adolescents, adults and seniors. These evaluations and assessments are conducted under the direction of a licensed psychologist and may include personality, behavior and/or intelligence testing.

Available Locations: Carlton, Cook, Douglas, Lake, St. Louis

HDC offers therapy in individual, family and group settings. Some of the problems addressed by HDC’s therapists include depression, anxiety, grief, abuse, life stress, family and marital issues, pain management, eating disorders and anger management. Services are open to children, adolescents & adults. Most major insurance plans are accepted and sliding fee is available with eligibility requirements for uninsured clients. Psychotherapy is available in our Cloquet, Duluth, Grand Marais, Moose Lake, Spirit Valley, Superior, and Two Harbors offices.

Available Locations: Carlton, Cook, Douglas, Lake, St. Louis

The Duluth, Proctor, and Hermantown school districts joined together in obtaining Federal grant funding for the “Safe Schools, Healthy Students” program. This program has a number of “elements” all targeted at providing a safe and healthy environment in our schools. HDC works cooperatively with all three school districts to provide therapy/counseling at all school sites, and at HDC clinic locations.. Referrals come from school personnel at each location.

Available Locations: St. Louis

The Strong Families program provides the same services as CTSS, however all children and their families can be served regardless of their insurance status because the program is partially grant funded. In order to receive these services a child must have a mental health diagnosis given within six months of the time of referral. These services also take place in the child’s home and community. Referrals come from County Social Services, Probation, Therapists and self-referral.

Strong Families is available in the Duluth area This program is housed in the Spirit Valley location.

Available Locations: St. Louis

T-ACT is a program designed for young adults, ages 18 to 25 years, who have serious mental health issues and are homeless, at risk, or otherwise disenfranchised. An assertive outreach approach assists clients with life skills, social skills, housing, jobs, med management, and other basic needs. The program is collaboratively staffed by St. Louis County Social Services, HDC, and Life House.

Available Locations: St. Louis