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Behavioral Health Response Team (BHRT) is a program designed to assist students & families meet the challenges associated with a physical return to school and expand mental health awareness in school communities. BHRT, staffed by a supervisor, clinician and family advocate provide on-site direct services to support students and families in managing behavioral/mental health challenges and allow students to improve their skills and responses while coping with various personal, academic and family-related stressors. Services may be customized to support the needs of individual school settings.
Services Offered
The Behavioral Health Response Team:
• Spends 1 to 3 days a week on-site
• Provides short-term intervention sessions for identified students and their families
• Ensures that all services are trauma-informed and family-centered
• May offer school-wide screening and referral services
• Supports de-escalation of crisis situations and support school support teams in engaging community resources
• Conducts outreach to families and collaborate with educational staff
• Has capacity for group interventions including parent groups and supporting school-based behavioral health initiatives
• May support staff training/psychoeducation on working with trauma impacted students
Contact Us
Jurine Walker-Franklin, LCSW-R , Deputy Director of Bronx Day Treatment & SYNC Programs
Tel: (646) 851-6033
Email: Please use our Program Contact Form »
More Information
Program brochure (PDF file)
Learn about Astor's other Bronx Community-based programs:
- Behavioral Health Response Team
Assists students & families meet the challenges associated with a physical return to school and expand mental health awareness in school communities. - Care Management
Ensures appropriate access and service management via care coordination and service integration. - Counseling Centers
Provides counseling, psychiatric services and case management to children and adolescents, and their families. - Day Treatment
A school-based intensive treatment program that integrates mental health and special education services for students grades K — 8. - High Fidelity Wraparound
Evidence-based care coordination that uses a highly structured, team-based, family-centered approach. - Lawrence F. Hickey Center for Child Development (Little Red School House)
Special education therapeutic preschool - Prevention Services
Time-limited, evidence-based model that utilizes a home-based approach to address both the concrete and clinical needs of the child and the family. - School-Based Behavioral Health Treatment (SBBHT)
School-based clinics and other mental health/casework supports embedded in community schools. - Serving Youth iN Their Communities (SYNC)
Through supportive skill-building and clinical services, SYNC helps to build a strong foundation so that youth and families can be active and productive members of their communities - Transitions
Provides services to school-aged youths, 4-18 years old, who exhibit behavioral difficulties in order to promote academic stability and successful promotion to the next grade level. - Trauma Recovery Center
The Trauma Recovery Center strives to provide help, healing and hope to survivors of trauma.