Mental Health Services
Administrative Management:
Activities undertaken to ensure intake into the county mental health system and the appropriate and timely use of available resources and specialized services to best address the needs of individuals seeking mental health services. Behavioral Health Rehabilitation Services (BHRS)
These services help children and adolescents with serious emotional or behavioral problems to be more successful at home, in school, or within other community settings. Community Employment:
Community-based jobs for consumers that offer "job coaches" to assist consumers integrate into the workforce to earn competitive wages. Community Services:
Advice and expertise given to professionals or other human service agencies concerning mental health in order to extend knowledge concerning this disability to others. Educational information given to the general public or other community agencies concerning available services and to help the general public accept individuals with mental disabilities. Consumer Satisfaction Team (CST):
The consumer satisfaction team was established in 1997 as a component to the CHIPPS (Community Hospital Integration Projects Program) initiative. The consumer satisfaction team's task is to evaluate each CHIPPs consumer's satisfaction with mental health services. More recently, the team has begun to examine mental health services such as partial hospitalization services provided to the general public. Future plans include continued expansion of the team's focus into inpatient and outpatient services.
Crisis Intervention/Mobile Crisis:
Crisis intervention is a global term that includes varying intervention services, i.e. telephone, walk-in, mobile crisis and crisis residential. Crisis services provide immediate intervention to assure safety for individuals experiencing moderate to severe distress. Crisis services were previously known as emergency services. Crisis Residential Services:
This "diversionary unit" is a step down from inpatient psychiatric services yet provides 24-hour intervention to people experiencing severe emotional distress. Emergency Services:
Emergency-related activities and administrative functions undertaken to proceed after a petition for voluntary or involuntary commitment has been completed. Family-Based Mental Health Services
Family therapy services are provided in the child and family's home by a team of professionals trained in family therapy. The team works with everyone in the family to improve relationships and to help the family take advantage of other resources in their community. The team can also help the child and family deal with problems at school. Family Support Services:
Supportive services designed to enable persons with mental illness and their families to be maintained at home, and/or live independently in the community. In-Home Diversion:
Support/treatment services in the child's home to avert out-of-home placement, especially inpatient hospitalization. In-Home Respite:
In-home babysitting services for parents of children who have a serious emotional disturbance. Intensive Case Management:
A proactive case management service that provides assistance to people suffering severe mental health disorders obtain basic necessities such as food, medical, dental and mental health services. Out of Home Respite:
Use of specialized community homes for inpatient hospitalization diversion and for therapeutic reasons. Outpatient Services:
Provides semi-weekly, weekly, bi-weekly or monthly counseling and psycho pharmaceutical intervention to people suffering minimal to moderate distress. Partial Hospitalization:
Services are provided daily, five days a week, to individuals suffering moderate emotional or mental disorders. This service provides group and psycho pharmaceutical interventions up to six hours each day. Program Assistance Team (PAT)
The Program Assistance Team provides behavior management services to provided to adults with mental retardation to aid in reduction and management of behavioral issues. Psychiatric Inpatient:
The most intensive mental health services are designed to offer the greatest degree of safety to individuals in severe distress. Inpatient services are medically based with social workers, nurses and physicians available each day to assist patients, reduce emotional distress, and return to the community as soon as possible. These services often rely heavily upon "follow up" services such as partial hospitalization and outpatient to refine gains achieved during inpatient stay. Representative Payee Services:
Representative-payee services are available to assist people suffering serious mental disorders in managing their finances. Representative-payee services assures each client maintains a budget to secure a residence, utilities, food, and clothing. Residential Services:
These include intensive full-care and partial-care community residential rehabilitation facilities designed to accommodate up to 12 individuals at each residence. These services also provide specialized personal care homes and supported living arrangements. Residential Treatment Facilities:
Out of county, medical assistance approved, mental health treatment facilities for medical assistance eligible children and adolescents (up to age 21) who cannot be maintained in the home. Resource Coordination:
Targeted to adults with serious and persistent mental illness and children and adolescents with serious mental illness or emotional disturbance who need assistance in accessing, coordinating, and monitoring of resources and services. Social Rehabilitation:
Social rehabilitation includes programs or activities designed to teach or improve self-care personal behavior and social adjustment for persons with a mental disability age 21 and over. Activities are intended to make community or independent living possible by increasing the person's level of social competency and by decreasing the need for structured supervision. Vocational Rehabilitation:
Includes facility-based vocational rehabilitation and community-based employment offering job coaches who assist consumers in the community. | 