Behavior Health Technician (BHT)

Behavior Health Technician is a non-traditional way of providing intense individualized mental health interventions and support services in a variety of community-based setting to children/adolescents with severe psychiatric diagnoses and their families. These settings include, but are not limited to, home, school, activity center, church, neighborhood, or extended or kinship family home. The Behavior Health Technician is supervised by a qualified mental health professional, a part of an interdisciplinary treatment team, and implements specific individualized treatment goals through a written order. The goal is to implement sound clinical interventions and support services to enable the children/adolescents to maintain and function appropriately in the least restrictive setting.