ADULT COMMUNITY RESIDENTIAL SERVICES

Intensive Community Residential Rehabilitation (ICRR) Services: Quality service is the focus of PMHC’s residential programs.  The ICRR staff strives to provide a comprehensive intensive residential program specifically designed to assist persons with persistent mental illness to develop skills for independent living and community participation.

Our ICRR Program is designed as a transitional living service with emphasis upon the rehabilitation of persons recovering from episodes of major mental illness and/or presenting significant problems in social, vocational or interpersonal functioning resulting from serious mental illness.  ICRR services are specifically designed to assist persons with chronic psychiatric disability to live as independently as possible through the provision of training and assistance in the skills of community living and by serving as an integrating focus for the person’s rehabilitation. 

There are 14 beds in our ICRR Program, which is staffed by mental health professionals and technicians 24 hours a day, seven days a week.  Prospective applicants are referred by private and state hospital social workers, by community agencies and organizations, and by family members.  All referrals must go through the PMHC intake process (see Behavioral Health Assessment Services) and all applicants for the ICRR program are evaluated by a PMHC psychiatrist to ensure that each applicants needs can be met by the program.

Supported Living Programs: PMHC has long realized that people with serious mental illness can live in the community if they are adequately supported.  In support of this belief, PMHC has developed several Supported Living Programs (SLP).  The SLP staff plays a primary role in assisting individuals in managing all areas of their lives, with the goal of providing these supports only until the individual can provide for him/herself, or receive support in a reliable way from the community. 

Services include, but are not limited to supporting, training and assisting individuals to obtain needed services in the following areas: community integration, social networking, leisure pursuits, problem solving, conflict resolution, relationships, sexuality, social skills, self-advocacy, time management, safety/emergency procedures, household management, consumer skills, banking, budgeting, money management, and hygiene/health maintenance.

Since these are not transitional programs, a resident can stay in the SLP and subsequently live in his/her apartment or house as long as he/she wishes. 

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