Peer Delivered or Operated Support Services: programs and services that
provide individuals with opportunities to learn and share coping skills and strategies,
move into more active assistance and away from passive roles, and to build and/or
enhance self-esteem and self-confidence.
- Peer Support Specialists: Peer specialist services provide individuals
with opportunities to support, mentor and assistant beneficiaries to achieve
community inclusion, participation, independence, recovery, resiliency and/or
productivity.
- Drop-In Center: Peer-Run Drop-In Centers provide an informal, supportive
environment to assist beneficiaries with mental illness in the recovery process.
Targeted Case Management: a service that assists consumers design and implement
strategies for obtaining services and supports that are goal-oriented and individualized.
Group home and Community Living Supports: services designed to assist a consumer
remain in the community while working on skills that increase or maintain personal
self-sufficiency, facilitating an individual’s achievement of his goals of community
inclusion and participation, independence or productivity.
Assertive Community Treatment (ACT): is a set of intensive clinical, medical
and psychosocial services provided by a mobile multi-disciplinary treatment team.
ACT provides basic services and supports essential to maintaining the consumer’s ability
to function in community settings, including assistance with accessing basic needs through
available community resources, such as food, housing, and medical care and supports to
allow beneficiaries to function in social, educational, and vocational settings. ACT
services are based on the principles of recovery and person-centered practice and
are individually tailored to meet the needs of the beneficiary. Services are provided
in the beneficiary's residence or other community locations by all members of the
ACT team.
Clubhouse Psychosocial Rehabilitation:
A clubhouse program is a community-based psychosocial rehabilitation program in which
the consumer (also called clubhouse "members"), with staff assistance, is engaged in
operating all aspects of the clubhouse, including food service, clerical, reception,
janitorial and other member supports and services such as employment, housing and
education. Through the activities of the ordered day, clubhouse decision-making
opportunities and social activities, individual members achieve or regain the confidence
and skills necessary to lead vocationally productive and socially satisfying lives.
Supported/Integrated Employment Services: Provide job development, initial
and ongoing support services, and activities as identified in the individual plan of
services that assist consumers obtain and maintain paid employment that would otherwise
be unachievable without such supports.
Fiscal Intermediary Services: services that assist the consumer meet
their goals of community participation and integration, independence or productivity
while controlling his individual budget and choosing staff who will provide the
services and supports.
Dialectic Behavior Therapy(DBT): a therapeutic way to treat consumers through
techniques such as emotion regulation and reality-testing with concepts of mindful
awareness, distress tolerance, and acceptance.
Family Psycho-Education (FPE): an evidence-based rehabilitation practice
that aims to achieve the best possible outcome for consumers through collaborative
treatment between clinicians and family members of the consumer. Additionally, FPE
attempts to alleviate the stress experienced by family members by supporting them in
their efforts to aid the recovery of their loved one.
SOAR- Social Security Outreach, Assistance and Recovery: a special social
security program for homeless consumers. It is a fast track for Social Security
benefits( taking 2 months or less for the approval and first SSI/ SSDI check.)
Glenn Cross - Targeted Case Management Supervisor
Shari Kindle - Targeted Case Management supervisor
Michelle Kinsey - Vivian rd Home Manager
Josh McCullough - ACT Supervisor
Russ Pavlick - New Directions Peer Support Manager
Marquierite Saba - Crossroads Clubhouse Supervisor