Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facilities (PRTF)

Inpatient psychiatric services are covered for residents ages 6 to 21 who require treatment on a continuous basis as a result of a severe mental or psychiatric illness.  PRTFs are designed to serve children who need long-term, more intensive treatment, and a more highly structured environment than they can received in family and other community-based alternatives to hospitalization.  Less restrictive and more homelike than hospitals, these facilities also serve children who are transitioning from hospitals, but who are still not ready for the demands of living at home or in a foster home.