Community Services Board

Child & Adolescent Services Team (CAST)

The Child and Adolescent Services Team (CAST) provides specialized services and supports to children and adolescents through age 17 with serious mental health needs. Many of the young people served by our program have experiences, or at risk for, out-of-home placement.

We emphasize working with the family while maintaining the young person in the home. CAST establishes partnerships with families to develop strengths and competencies, and to assist in achieving goals.

Our services are flexible in meeting individual needs, and often are provided in the home and community. Services include family and individual therapy, intensive in-home services, case management, crisis intervention, and coordination of other specialized family supports. CAST staff also work closely with the schools and other public agencies.

If you answer yes to any of the following questions, please call for assistance.

• Has your child had a serious emotional problem for more than a year?
• Do you feel interventions to date have not worked?
• Has your child experienced serious behavioral problems in school?
• Have your child's problems required involvement with the court system or social services?
• Does your child take psychiatric medications, or have they been prescribed?
• Has a psychiatric hospitalization, residential stay, or other placement occurred?
• Do you feel there is a risk that your child may need to be placed out of the home?

Questions, Comments, or Requests for Further Information

Chesterfield County Community Services Board
P.O. Box 92
6801 Lucy Corr Boulevard
Chesterfield, Virginia  23832

Phone: (804) 748-1227
TDD: (804) 768-7200
FAX: (804) 768-9283

For more information about services call (804) 768-7203.