B.R.I.D.G.E.S. Long-Term Residential Treatment Program serves adults and transitional age youth with mental health and co-occurring diagnoses, and applies the principles of psychosocial rehabilitation. Services are provided in a 24-hour therapeutic environment, with a full array of social rehabilitation services, focusing on symptom and medication management, personal and independent livings skills development, and abstinence from illicit drugs and/or alcohol. Structured and independent services and activities are available seven (7) days a week. Services include:
- Individual and group counseling
- Crisis Intervention
- Planned Activities
- Development of community support systems and community linkage
- Pre-vocational and vocational activity, counseling, and education
- Client Advocacy
- An activity program that includes socialization opportunities within the treatment milieu and in the community
- Life Skills/ Activities of Daily Living
- Referral and Access to Wellness and Recovery
- Assessment and individual treatment planning
- Medication assistance
The ultimate goal of the program is to assist the individual in avoiding hospitalization, increase functioning level, and successfully integrating into the community. Clients are expected to gain motivation to maximize their potential, by learning to manage their mental health symptoms and how to live productively in a less restrictive and more independent living situation upon completion of the program.
Each client will develop a treatment/service plan with a mental health counselor, and plan specific goals and objectives directly related to their needs and abilities.
Each of the Long-Term Treatment Programs is presented in three Phases: Phase I – Orientation/ Stabilization, Phase II – Treatment and Recovery, Phase III –Community Re-Entry. Allowing for up to 18 months length of stay affords clients the opportunity to work with staff to understand, stabilize their psychiatric symptoms, manage their medications, and learn the necessary skills to integrate into the community successfully.
Each phase represents important milestones in each of the client’s recovery and healthful living plan. Advancement to higher phases is conditional, individualized, and requires dedication and self-determination
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