Services Offered
Helping persons served live independently through advocacy and linkage to Community Resources.
Population Served
Adult individuals who have a severe and persistent mental illness that seriously interferes with their ability to live in the community as defined according to the ADA settlement as: “a diagnosable mental, behavioral, or emotional disorder of sufficient duration to meet diagnostic criteria that has occurred within the last year, has resulted in functional impairment which substantially interferes with or limits one or more major life activities, and has episodic, recurrent, or persistent features
Program Goals/Outcomes
The program goals are to reduce the individuals’ reliance upon hospitalization, increase housing and job stability, and minimize suicidal, homicidal, and aggressive behavior. Decreasing the frequency of personal, social, community based problems is also a goal. The outcome measure is to provide all persons served with at least the minimum number of face to face and collateral contacts per a 30 day period as well as have zero instances of inpatient psychiatric admissions at a state mental health facility.