Services

If you’re a parent feeling overwhelmed by the IEP process, you’re not alone! We’re here to help you every step of the way.

MHP connects families with the specialized resources and services that can help their child achieve their maximum potential. When families contact us they receive personal and confidential assistance from our highly experienced Resource Coordinators, supported by our expert staff of pediatric physicians. These services, which can involve substantial time and attention, are provided free of charge to Virginia families.

These services include crisis counseling for mental health and behavioral issues, working effectively with your child’s medical home, counseling on Medicare/Medicaid waivers and other care-financial issues, and referral services to practitioners and organizations specializing in areas of need to these families.

As the parent of a child with disabilities or special needs, your greatest dream for your child is a happy, secure and fulfilling adulthood. The transition to adulthood is exciting but challenging for every young person, but especially so for those with special needs or disabilities. Young people need a broad array of skills – self-determination, work skills, independent living skills, health, safety, and social skills — to most successfully make the transition to their optimal adulthood. There are many key milestones to meet along the way. The Optimal Futures Program is designed to help you and your child walk this path with confidence, with consistent mentor and service support throughout the process.

Our Optimal Futures Program Case Managers work with high school students who have an IEP to help them identify their adulthood goals, based on assessments and meaningful discussions to determine their interests, preferences, strengths and skill development needs. Throughout their remaining school years and several years beyond, we partner with young adults and their families to develop annual plans including comprehensive support services, goals and milestones. We mentor your student throughout these years to help them achieve the goals they have chosen.

Our OFP Case Managers can work with your student to:

• Prepare for the life THEY want after high school!
• Build a personalized transition plan, updated each year, that envisions their life five years after high school and empowers them to achieve these adulthood goals.
• Ensure that comprehensive support services are in place, wrapping around the services provided in their IEP, to help them meet the goals in their plan.
• Mentor them throughout the process to provide consistent support throughout their high school and early post-high-school years.
• Provide non-loan scholarship funding for post-secondary education (vocational or college) that helps them achieve their adulthood goals (subject to funding availability).