YES Waiver
What is YES Waiver?
The YES (Youth Empowerment Services) Waiver is a 1915(c) Medicaid Waiver that helps children and adolescents with serious mental, emotional and behavioral difficulties. The YES Waiver provides intensive services delivered within a strengths based team planning process called Wraparound.
Denton County MHMR offers Wraparound Services to those who qualify. This program depends on participation of individuals involved in all aspects of your youth’s life. In Wraparound services the team will develop a plan, along with you and your youth, and explore community-based services that will help your child reach their recovery plan goals. Your services will be guided by a facilitator who will work closely with you and the community to wrap around your child and help meet their needs.
YES Waiver Inquiry Line – 800-YES (937)-1208
Who is eligible for YES Waiver?
- ages 3-17
- have a qualifying mental health diagnosis
- experiencing serious mental, emotional, and behavioral difficulty
- at risk of being placed outside the home due to mental health needs
Goals of YES Waiver
- Reducing out-of-home placements and inpatient psychiatric treatment by all child-serving agencies
- Providing a more complete continuum of community-based services and supports, expansion of services as needed
- Ensuring families have access to parent partners and other flexible non-traditional support services as identified in a family-centered planning process
- Preventing entry into the foster care system and relinquishment of parental custody
- Improving the lives of children and adolescents.
Services
- Specialized therapies
- Adaptive Aids & Supports
- Community Living Supports
- Family Supports
- Minor Home Modifications
- Non-Medical Transportation
- Employment Assistance and supported employment
- Paraprofessional Services
- Professional Services
- Respite
- Supportive Family Based Alternatives
- Transition Services
If you are caring for a child with a serious mental, emotional or behavioral difficulty and need help, please call the YES Waiver Inquiry line, 800-YES (937)-1208 to add your child to the YES Waiver Inquiry List.