SERVICES

"You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it."

--Maya Angelou

COUNSELING SERVICES

Individual Counseling

Our approach to counseling provides every individual with an experienced clinician who works to identify and address challenges affecting one's ability to manage daily functions. Therapy allows you to express your thoughts, feelings, and experiences in a safe and accepting environment. Our clinicians have decades of experience working with various mental health, behavioral and emotional challenges. Through our results-oriented approach, we will assess and evaluate your identified concerns to diagnose your condition(s). Your comfort is a high priority, and our entire team will treat you with the utmost respect and dignity. We will recommend the best therapy solution to help you get your life back on track, but we will never implement solutions unless you are comfortable with the interventions. You and your clinician mutually agree on all recommendations before scheduling.

Family Counseling

Our approach to therapy provides every family with an experienced clinician who works to identify and address challenges affecting the family dynamic. Therapy allows you to express your thoughts, feelings, and experiences in a safe and accepting environment. Through our results-oriented approach, we will evaluate and assess the identified concerns of the family. We will recommend the best therapy solution for the family, but we will never implement solutions unless the family is comfortable with the interventions. The family and your clinician mutually agree upon all treatments. Our clinicians have decades of experience working with myriad mental health, behavioral and emotional challenges.


Group Counseling

Group therapy offers a variety of peer-based sessions to children and adults. A small number of like individuals meet to participate in weekly sessions to gain insight into thoughts and behaviors under the guidance of a professionally trained group facilitator. Group therapy sessions work to assist individuals with learning about themselves, improving relationships, and developing better coping and symptom management skills. Group members experience emotional support, empathic understanding, and authentic encouragement from one another. These sessions are instrumental in healing many types of emotional and psychological struggles, such as depression, anxiety, anger, fear, shame, etc. The participants learn to accept support from others while increasing understanding and developing new ways of interacting with one another.

PSYCHIATRIC REHABILITATION PROGRAM (PRP) SERVICES

PRP For Adults

Our PRP for Adults offers various services to individuals diagnosed with mental health illnesses to keep them functional in the community while decreasing homelessness and promoting stability. The main scope of our adult services is to work with clients on various goals in the areas outlined below:

Housing

We assist our clients and their families with any housing needs. We work with our clients to develop a housing plan and home search. Should our clients become homeless, we will meet with them in the community, help connect them to services, and complete the necessary applications. We work with our clients throughout the program to achieve their financial security goals and obtain independent housing in their chosen community.

Employment

We meet with our clients to identify vocational interests and goals. Then, we guide our clients through employment training, assisting with mock interviews and resume-building, monitoring client progress toward vocational goals, and processing workplace issues. Additionally, we help our clients pursue independent employment by assisting with job applications and follow-up.

Transportation

We help our clients identify their transportation needs and barriers to independent travel.

Education

We help our clients identify educational interests and goals. In addition, we guide our clients throughout academic training and teach them to seek additional educational resources independently.

Financial Needs

We help our clients identify ways they can address financial needs, such as entitlements, financial assistance, and budgeting. For example, we work with our clients to access entitlements and financial assistance and to follow up with applications and recertification dates. In addition, our trained field staff helps individuals achieve financial security by developing a budgeting plan.

Therapy Compliance

We work with our clients to ensure they actively participate in therapy and maintain contact with counseling services as needed.

Wellness Management

We help our clients identify substance abuse, mental health, and physical health needs. Additionally, we work with our clients to connect with treatment providers to address these needs. Finally, we collaborate with providers throughout the program to ensure we address clients' needs.

Illness Management

We assist our clients with keeping up with all medical appointments to address all medical needs.

Legal Support

We assist our clients with identifying a plan to prevent recidivism. In addition, our field staff will collaborate with outside legal support as needed.

Social Skills Development

We offer social skills development workshops that include:

  • Community integration activities

  • Developing natural supports and activities to support individual’s cultural interests

  • Group and self-directed leisure activities related to sports and arts

  • Activities related to client’s spiritual interests

Family & Community Supports

We help our clients identify recreational interests, family issues, and community stabilization plans. Additionally, we work with our clients to facilitate culturally appropriate activities and teach social skills that support healthy family interactions.

PRP For Minors

Our PRP for minors promotes self-sufficiency and advocacy for children providing the tools to become independent and successful while building a positive self-image. Our PRP minor service focuses on the main areas outlined below:

  • Supportive and educational services for students, youth, and their parents

  • Independent living skills and Individual Education Plan (IEP) support and advocacy

  • Transitional-age youth supportive and educational services and situational support

(i.e., decreasing frustration with the school system when trying to meet the educational and developmental needs of a transitional-age youth)

  • Health promotion and training for families with IEP students in transition for IEP treatment plans, challenges, advocacy in various environments (family, home, or school), student/teacher interaction and support, etc.

  • Safe sex and abstinence as a tool to keep minors focused on self-care and wellness

  • Ensuring awareness and access to entitlements, educational and career development services, and other available benefits

  • Strengthening communication skills for improved relationships

  • Recovery and self-determination process

  • Rehabilitation assessments and evaluations to identify strengths, skills, and areas of improvement

  • Setting proactive goals for youths with special needs

  • Facilitating the development of age-appropriate daily living and social skills

  • Promoting the use of community resources by families

  • Medication education and monitoring

  • Reducing inpatient hospitalizations and out-of-home placements for youth

  • Implementing IEP goals into comprehensive individualized treatment plans

  • Ways to self-manage a diagnosis with coping skills training

  • Organizational skills management

  • Positive problem-solving methods

  • Anger management

  • Relationship building and self-esteem

  • Personal awareness and boundaries

  • Personal hygiene and nutrition