The Psychosocial Rehabilitation component provides a formally organized goal-oriented curriculum-based program of daily activities directed toward assisting consumers with a serious mental illness or emotional disturbance to function at their highest level of independence in the community. The comprehensive program also incorporates peer socialization, supported employment, and community education and awareness, as well as, leisure/recreational skills for consumers. Staff implemented a national model of holistic health for consumers that promote, through an expanded curriculum, a greater emphasis on health problems such as diabetes, obesity, and heart disease. These services are oriented toward improvements in age-appropriate or independent role-functioning through systematic skill-building. The intervention strategies emphasized are cognitive-behavioral, social competency building and psycho educational coordinated with other medical/psychotherapeutic modalities. Services are typically delivered in an 8-2:30 weekday, on-site format.
Evidenced Based Supported Employment is an approach to vocational rehabilitation for individuals with mental illness that emphasizes helping them obtain competitive work in the community, and provides the support necessary to ensure success at the workplace. This service spans vocational engagement, vocational assessment, job finding support, job retention support, and job leaving/termination support.
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