We provides an array of Mental Health Rehabilitative Services to individuals with significant mental illness who are in need of client centered, goal-directed, solution based services in their natural environment to permit or enhance functioning in the community. We are committed to enhancing their quality of life by meeting and challenging the needs of the whole person: physical, mental, and social. We strongly believe that all individuals have goals and aspirations and a vision of their lives beyond their circumstances. We also believe that many of individuals we serve may not believe that they have goals and aspirations that are obtainable. We assist our clients in developing a belief system and we provide them with creative resources and opportunities for growth while encouraging them. Our services integrate the principles of cultural competence, addressing the impact of discrimination/stigma, and inter-system collaboration into its service philosophy. We will provide services with consideration of linguistic preference. An essential aspect of our services is recognizing the importance of family, community-based, and faith-based supports. At Circle Of Hope, we provide the following services:
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Mental Health Skill-Building Service
Mental Health Skill-Building Services are solution based, goal directed training, centered on enabling individuals to achieve and maintain community stability and independence in the most appropriate, least restrictive environment. Mental Health Skill-building Services (MHSS) places emphasizes on the rehabilitative nature of the service. MHSS shall include goal directed training in the following areas: functional skills and appropriate behavior related to the individual’s health and safety; activities of daily living, and use of community resources; assistance with medication management; and monitoring health, nutrition, and physical condition.
Intensive In-Home Services
Intensive In-Home Services are for Children/Adolescents under age 21 are intensive, time-limited interventions provided typically but not solely in the residence of a child who is at risk of being moved into an out-of-home placement or who is being transitioned to home from an out-of-home placement due to documented clinical needs of the child. These services provide crisis treatment; individual and family counseling; and communication skills (e.g. counseling to assist the child and his parents to understand and practice appropriate problem-solving, anger management, and interpersonal interaction, etc.); case management activities and coordination with other required services; and 24-hour emergency response.
Intensive Community Treatment
Intensive Community Treatment provide services to individuals with significant mental illness who need intensive levels of support and service in their natural environment to permit or enhance functioning in the community. ICT has been designed to be provided through a designated multi-disciplinary team of mental health professionals and shall include medical psychotherapy, psychiatric assessment, medication management, and care coordination activities offered to outpatients outside the clinic, hospital, or office setting for individuals who are best served in the community.
Outpatient Therapy
Our recovery-focused mental health services are provided by a multi-disciplined team which includes psychologist, social workers, and other mental health professionals working together and dedicated to helping individuals achieve a healthy happy and rewarding life. We offer a range of mental health services to address individual's needs. Our skilled staff provide care for the whole person: physical, mental and social in a comfortable confidential setting. We serve people of all ages, from children to senior citizens, with programs that include individual, group and family therapy.
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Skill Training & Development Service
Skills Training and Development services provides opportunities for the individual to acquire and improve skills needed to function as appropriately and independently as possible in the community; and facilitates the individual's community integration and increases his or her community tenure. Skills training and development services consist of teaching an individual the following skills:
- Skills for managing daily responsibilities (e.g.,paying bills, attending school, and performing chores);
- Communication Skills (e.g., effective communication and recognizing or change problematic communication styles);
- Pro-Social Skills (e.g., replacing problematic behaviors with behaviors that are socially and culturally appropriate or developing interpersonal relationship skills necessary to function effectively with family, peer, teachers, or other people in the community);
- Problem-Solving Skills;
- Assertiveness Skills (e.g., resisting peer pressure, replacing aggressive behaviors with assertive behaviors, and expressing one's own opinion in a manner that is socially appropriate);
Medication Training and Support Services
Medication training and support services consist of education and guidance regarding medications and their possible side effects. Medication Training Support assist an individual in:
(1) Understanding the nature of an adult's serious mental illness or a child or adolescent's SED;
(2) Understanding the concepts of recovery and resilience within the context of the serious mental illness;
(3) Understanding the role of the individual's prescribed medications in reducing symptoms and increasing or maintaining the individual's functioning;
(4) Identifying and managing the individual's symptoms and potential side effects of the individual's medication;
(5) Learning the contraindications of the individual's medication;
(6) Understanding the overdose precautions of the individual's medication; and
(7) Learning self-administration of the individual's medication.
Crisis Intervention Services
Crisis intervention services are interventions provided in response to a crisis in order to reduce or manage symptoms of serious mental illness or SED and to prevent admission of an individual to a more restrictive environment. Crisis intervention services consist of the following interventions:
(1) An assessment of dangerousness of the individual to self or others;
(2) The coordination of emergency care services in accordance with §412.314 of this title (relating to Access to Mental Health Community Services);
(3) Behavior skills training to assist the individual in reducing distress and managing symptoms;
(4) Problem-solving;
(5) Reality orientation to help the individual identify and manage his or symptoms of serious mental illness or SED; and
(6) Providing instruction, structure, and emotional support to the individual in adapting to and coping with immediate stressors.
Psychosocial Rehabilitative Services
Psychosocial rehabilitative services are social, behavioral, and cognitive interventions provided by members of an individual's therapeutic team that build on strengths and focus on restoring the individual's ability to develop and maintain social relationships, occupational or educational achievement, and other independent living skills that are affected by or the result of a serious mental illness in adults. Psychosocial rehabilitative services may also address the impact of co-occurring disorders upon the individual's ability to reduce symptomology and increase daily functioning. Psychosocial rehabilitative services that include but are not limited to, the following component services:
(1) Independent living services;
(2) Coordination services;
(3) Employment related services;
(4) Housing related services;
(5) Medication related services; and
(6) Crisis related services.
Outpatient Therapy
Our recovery-focused mental health services are provided by a multi-disciplined team which includes psychologist, social workers, and other mental health professionals working together and dedicated to helping individuals achieve a healthy happy and rewarding life. We offer a range of mental health services to address individual's needs. Our skilled staff provides care for the whole person: physical, mental and social in a comfortable confidential setting. We serve people of all ages, from children to senior citizens, with programs that include individual, group and family therapy.