Nursing Home Services
Referrals for Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (OBRA) screenings are made to the OBRA Coordinator, who assigns trained evaluators to assess individuals at private homes, hospitals and local nursing homes. OBRA evaluations assess the mental health needs for individuals who are or will be placed in nursing homes. Clinical staff makes treatment recommendations and may also provide consultation to nursing homes.
Consultation and Education
Center staff are available to provide consultation with schools, social services, juvenile diversion, law enforcement, foster parents, nursing homes, and other members of the human service community regarding individual cases, as well as general mental health issues and topics. Education is offered through speaking engagements, in-service presentations, and workshops. Topics addressed may include depression, anxiety, suicide and suicide prevention, substance abuse, physical and sexual abuse, parenting, issues related to children and adolescents, and stress management.
Vocational Services
The Center contracts with Aspen Diversified Industries (ADI) to provide vocational rehabilitation and training services to individuals in the community with mental illness. ADI is committed to integrating their employees into the mainstream work force.
Parenting Support Services
Under Parenting Support Services, family advocates meet individually with families and assist them with filling out paperwork, family advocacy, and family support both on the phone and one on one. The Center provides trainings and collaborative efforts with schools and other community agencies to serve the needs of family members. They assist with treatment planning and school planning for kids with special needs. Additionally, support groups and classes for families are facilitated through Parenting Support Services. Meetings and services are free to the public.
Critical Incident Stress Debriefing
The Center provides crisis intervention to stabilize cognitive and affective processes to diminish the impact of a traumatic event that may happen to anyone in the communities we serve. Our goal is to decrease the emotional impact and to be available to provide services during the recovery period. Examples of incidents that may require a stress debriefing are: serious injury or death of a co-worker; mass casualty incidents; suicide or unexpected death; serious injury or death from an auto accident; death of a child or violence to a child; events that seriously threaten lives of responders or crisis workers; loss of a person following intervention by law enforcement; an incident with profound emotion; and any incident where the circumstances are unusual or the sights and sounds so distressing that a high level of immediate or delayed emotional reaction occurs. Employee Assistance Programs
The Center contracts with businesses to provide to their employees confidential counseling, crisis intervention, consultation, and referral services.
Day Treatment for Children and Young Adolescents
The Center supports a Day Treatment program in collaboration with the Montrose School District and Social Services. It is a program to help specially selected students become more independent and responsible through educational, therapeutic and recreational programming. The program philosophy guiding the day treatment intervention and practices is based on a family systems approach, with the family as the focus of treatment. Students are supported in returning to public school as soon as they are determined to be ready.
Intensive In-Home Family Therapy
The Center supports a family intervention therapy program for treatment of adolescents with severe behavior problems. This is a family-based prevention and intervention program that treats a range of high-risk youth and their families. The program may include diversion, probation, alternatives to incarceration, and/or reentry programs for youth returning to the community following release from an institutional setting. This model of therapy focuses on the multiple domains and systems within which adolescents and their families live, on the treatment system, and on family and individual functioning. |
