Nurturing Young Minds, One Bright Future at a Time

At Wellvance, we provide ABA Therapy for young people under 21. ABA Therapy helps kids with autism learn new skills and improve their behavior using positive rewards. This approach helps them make meaningful and lasting progress.

ABA Therapy is offered across all three counties (Iosco, Ogemaw and Oscoda), and is based on medical necessity determined by a series of tests completed by a licensed psychologist.

What Does the Treatment Involve?

ABA helps kids and young adults with autism learn important skills. This includes talking and mimicking actions, playing by themselves and with others, using language in different ways, improving social skills, and interacting with peers. Wellvance also offers training for parents and caregivers to help at home. Treatment is provided by a Board Certified Behavioral Analyst (BCBA) and a team of ABA Techs through a contacted provider at either their site location or in the child's natural environment.

For youth and young adults with serious emotional issues, a Wellvance Care Manager helps both the child and their family create a personalized plan for a better future. Care Management supports youth in gaining independence and learning to handle their challenges as much as possible. This ongoing, coordinated support is key to helping them move towards a brighter future.

What is Care Management?

Care Management helps with evaluating a youth and their family's needs and connecting them to local resources. This support can include getting help with things like financial aid, food, clothes, short-term housing, long-term housing, medical and dental care, vision care, transportation, social support, therapy, and other services.

Care Management services varies from child to child and family to family based on the needs of the youth. Goals stay the same; empowering children to overcome challenges, advance their potential, and help them swing into a future filled with happiness and success!

*If you or a loved one is in an emergency or life threatening situation, please immediately call 911. 

At Wellvance, we offer youth and young adults experiencing severe mental or emotional distress with immediate help. Crisis care is available 24/7 by calling our Wellvance Crisis & After Hours Line at 1-844-865-5569 or TTY 711.  We’ll provide options to get the child to safety and help you cope with whatever situation you find yourself in. 

What is Crisis Care vs. Emergency Care?

Crisis care focuses on providing immediate support for individuals experiencing severe mental or emotional distress, while emergency care addresses urgent physical health conditions that require immediate medical attention.

Community Living Supports (CLS) are supports provided by Wellvance staff that help youth and families with severe emotional disturbances (SED) develop skills to thrive within their home, school and community.  The supports are based on the youth and family goals, choices and priorities as identified through an individual plan of service and may be provided in the youth’s home, school or in their community.

The youth and family may get the following supports:

• activities of daily living (e.g., bathing, eating, dressing, personal hygiene)
• household chores
• safety skills
• skill development (e.g., social, relationship, emotional, independent)

Wellvance offers Home Based services that are designed to provide intensive services to children, youth and families who have multiple needs and who require access 2 or more mental health services. The primary goals of this program is to support families in meeting their youth’s developmental needs, to support and preserve families, to reunite families who have been separated, and to provide effective treatment and community supports.

Who Is Eligible for Treatment?

Home Based services are targeted for infants, children and youth who are at risk of developing or who have been diagnosed with a severe emotional disturbance (SED) or who require intensive services and supports. Additionally, home-based services can be provided to an adult expecting a child or to a parent if they meet eligibility requirements.

Care is available to those aged 0-21. Care is available in the home, school, or community.

Outpatient Therapy offers behavorial health therapy and wellness for youth with severe or persistent mental health illnesses. Wellvance works together with the child or young adult and their family members to meet all identified goals. At Wellvance, outpatient therapy assists youth in navigating challenges such as depression, anxiety, multiple life stressors, or coping with trauma.

What Happens During Outpatient Therapy?

Services start with a thorough assessment with both the youth and their parent or guardian to see if they qualify for care. This process also lets both the youth/young adult and their loved ones work with the Wellvance therapist to create an individual plan of service. Services may include short individual or group therapy sessions.

If group therapy is suggested, Wellvance offers different youth group sessions in various locations across Iosco, Ogemaw, and Oscoda counties.

Wellvance provides psychiatric services for youth and young adults with serious and ongoing mental health issues. Care is given by psychiatric doctors, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants, who offer full assessments and manage medications.

*These services are offered in conjunction with other Wellvance services.

At Wellvance, we provide youth up to age 21 with Intensive Care Coordination with Wraparound Services (ICCW). This service is led by our Wellvance Wraparound Facilitators. Wraparound brings together a team of people, including family members and professionals from different agencies, to create a personalized plan. This plan is designed to offer the youth and their family the mental health treatments, services, and support they need.

What Is the Goal of Wraparound?

The overall goal of Wraparound is to ensure that the youth and their families realize their hopes and dreams, and experience success in their homes, communities, and schools. Wellvance Wraparound Facilitators assist the youth and their families through advocacy, education and support to increase their quality of daily living. Wraparound helps keep the youth and their families together in the community, improve their level of functioning, and build natural supports and independence in the community.