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Cedar Tree Family and Children Services, LLC is a Council on Quality and Leadership (CQL) accredited facility located in Columbus GA. Since 2013, Cedar Tree has served vulnerable youth and families in social services and mental health.

Mr. Michael L. Milford, MSW founded Cedar Tree Family and Children Services because he recognized the need for resources in the West Georgia area. Mr. Milford was born in Columbus, GA. He was educated in the Columbus Public School System. Mr. Milford graduated from Jordan Vocational High School. He went on to obtain a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Alabama State University, and later graduated from Clark Atlanta University with a Masters in Social Work.

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Call the Georgia Crisis & Access Line (GCAL) at 1-800-715-4225, available 24/7.

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Cedar Tree Family and Children Services, LLC is a CQL accredited facility located in Columbus GA. This company has been in the field of social services, and serving vulnerable youth and families since 2013. Our clinical staff includes: Licensed Clinical Social Workers, Licensed Professional Counselors, as well as Masters and Bachelors level clinicians.

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Community Support Individual

Community Support services consist of rehabilitative, environmental support and resources coordination considered essential to assist a youth/family in gaining access to necessary services and in creating environments that promote resiliency and support the emotional and functional growth and development of the youth. The service activities of Community Support include:

Assistance to the youth and family/responsible caregivers in the facilitation and coordination of the Individual Resiliency Plan (IRP) including providing skills

support in the youth/family’s self-articulation of personal goals and objectives;

Planning in a proactive manner to assist the youth/family in managing or preventing crisis situations;
Individualized interventions, which shall have as objectives:
1. Identification, with the youth, of strengths which may aid him/her in achieving resilience, as well as barriers that impede the development of skills necessary for age-appropriate functioning in school, with peers, and with family;
2. Support to facilitate enhanced natural and age-appropriate supports (including support/assistance with defining what wellness means to the youth in order to assist them with resiliency-based goal setting and attainment);
3. Assistance in the development of interpersonal, community coping and functional skills (including adaptation to home, school and healthy social environments);
4. Encouraging the development and eventual succession of natural supports in living, learning, working, other social environments;
5. Assistance in the acquisition of skills for the youth to self-recognize emotional triggers and to self-manage behaviors related to the youth’s identified

emotional disturbance;

Assistance with personal development, school performance, work performance, and functioning in social and family environment through teaching

skills/strategies to ameliorate the effect of behavioral health symptoms;

Assistance in enhancing social and coping skills that ameliorate life stresses resulting from the youth’s emotional disturbance;
Service and resource coordination to assist the youth and family in gaining access to necessary rehabilitative, medical, social and other services and

supports;

Assistance to youth and other supporting natural resources with illness understanding and self-management;
Any necessary monitoring and follow-up to determine if the services accessed have adequately met the youth’s needs;
Identification, with the youth/family, of risk indicators related to substance related disorder relapse, and strategies to prevent relapse.

This service is provided to youth in order to promote stability and build towards age-appropriate functioning in their daily environment. Stability is measured by a decreased number of hospitalizations, by decreased frequency and duration of crisis episodes and by increased and/or stable participation in school and community activities. Supports based on the youth’s needs are used to promote resiliency while understanding the effects of the emotional disturbance and/or substance use disorder and to promote functioning at an age-appropriate level. The Community Support staff will serve as the primary coordinator of behavioral health services and will provide linkage to community; general entitlements; and psychiatric, substance use disorder, medical services, crisis prevention and intervention services.