What We Offer
Psychiatric Rehabilitation Program
Our Psychiatric Rehabilitation Program (PRP) serves both children and adult population. The goal of our PRP is to assist individuals living with mental illness to reach a higher level of independence. The PRP program assists participants with accessing and coordinating services and resources in their communities and works to ensure that each individual has access to the best possible treatment and care. These services are provided both in the community and within our facility at Ability Behavioral Health.
Assertive Community Treatment (ACT)
Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) is a multidisciplinary team approach that assumes responsibility for directly providing acute, active, and ongoing community-based psychiatric treatment, assertive outreach, rehabilitation, and support. The program team provides assistance to individuals to maximize their recovery, ensure consumer-directed goal setting, assist the persons served to gain hope and a sense of empowerment, and provide assistance in helping the persons served become respected and valued members of their community. The program provides psychosocial services directed primarily to adults with severe and persistent mental illness who often have co-occurring problems, such as substance abuse, or are homeless or involved with the judicial system.
The team is the single point of clinical responsibility and is accountable for assisting the persons served to meet their needs and to achieve their goals for recovery. Multiple members of the team are familiar with each person served to ensure the timely and continuous provision of services. Services are provided on a long-term care basis with continuity of caregivers over time. The majority of services are provided directly by ACT team members, with minimal referral to outside providers, in the natural environment of the person served and are available 24 hours a day, 7 days per week. Services are comprehensive and highly individualized and are modified as needed through an ongoing assessment and treatment planning process. Services vary in intensity based on the needs of the persons served.
Assertive Community Treatment has been identified as an effective model for providing community-based services for persons whose needs and goals have not been met through traditional office-based treatment and rehabilitation services. Desired outcomes specific to ACT services may include positive change in the following areas: community tenure, independent living, quality of life, consumer satisfaction of the person served, functioning in work and social domains, community integration, psychological condition, subjective wellbeing, and the ability of the persons served to manage their own healthcare. In certain geographic areas, Assertive Community Treatment programs may be called Community Support programs, Intensive Community Treatment programs, Mobile Community Treatment Teams, or Assertive Outreach Teams.
Community Integration (COI)
Community integration is designed to help persons to optimize their personal, social, and vocational competency in order to live successfully in the community. Activities are determined by the needs of the persons served. The persons served are active partners in all aspects of these programs. Therefore, the settings can be informal in order to reduce barriers between staff members and program participants. In addition to services provided in the home or community, this program may include a psychosocial clubhouse, a drop-in center, an activity center, or a day program. Community integration provides opportunities for the community participation of the persons served. The organization defines the scope of these services based on the identified needs and desires of the persons served.
A person may participate in a variety of community life experiences that may include, but are not limited to:
- Leisure or recreational activities
- Communication activities
- Spiritual activities
- Cultural activities
- Vocational pursuits
- Development of work attitudes
- Employment activities
- Volunteerism
- Educational and training activities
- Development of living skills
- Health and wellness promotion
- Orientation, mobility, and destination training
- Access and utilization of public transportation
Outpatient Treatment (OT)
Outpatient treatment programs provide culturally and linguistically appropriate services that include, but are not limited to, individual, group, and family counseling and education on wellness, recovery, and resiliency. These programs offer comprehensive, coordinated, and defined services that may vary in level of intensity.
Outpatient programs may address a variety of needs, including, but not limited to
- Situational stressors
- Family relations
- Interpersonal relationships
- Mental health issues
- Life span issues
- Psychiatric illnesses
- Substance use disorders and other addictive behaviors