CSEDW Overview

The CSEDW (Children with Serious Emotional Disorder Waiver) program provides support for children and teens with serious behavioral or mental health needs. It gives them a range of extra services and supports along with their Medicaid benefits. 

You can fill out the CSEDW program application (PDF) here.

The CSEDW is a Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) waiver program. This means that it gives members and families extra care and services in their homes and communities. 

Without this extra support, the child or teen might need to live at a psychiatric residential treatment facility (PRTF). The CSEDW program helps keep members living at home with their families instead of at a PRTF. It also helps them after they move back home from a facility. The program’s main goal is for fewer children and teens to live in PRTFs.

Who can take part in the CSEDW program?

To take part in the program, your child must:

• Be between the ages of 3 and 21

• Receive Medicaid benefits (Medicaid eligibility is separate from CSEDW eligibility) 

• Be a resident of West Virginia, even if they live at a care facility in another state (you must show proof of this to apply) 

• Get treatment services at home and in the community instead of at a live-in care facility  

• Enroll with Aetna Better Health® as their managed care organization (MCO) 

• Meet CSEDW medical eligibility

CSEDW services we offer here at Elevate?

In Home Family Therapy from Master’s level professionals such as Board Certified Behavior Analysts, Licensed Professional Counselors, Social Workers, etc.