resources. It is structured to progress from more intense levels of service to less intense and eventual graduation.
• Service delivery that is designed to reduce psychiatric hospitalization, reduce substance abuse, and encourage jail diversion.
• Services reflect right treatment, for appropriate length of time, and delivered in the appropriate setting.
• Individualized services based on a set of practice guidelines.
What is it that the individual needs and wants in order to recover? A Wellness Strategy, looking at an individual’s activities 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, is completed for every adult mental health patient at Pecan Valley Centers service area to ensure that they receive:
• Regular Physical Exercise
• Adequate Sleep
• Healthy Diet
• Referral to outside agencies for funding assistance as needed and available.
• Linkage with at least 2 community supports specific to the individual’s needs, such as the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, Peer Support Groups, local churches, Narcotics Anonymous, and Alcoholics Anonymous.
• Identifies desired outcomes and real life goals of an individual.
• Builds on strengths and focuses on positives in an individual’s life.
• Strengthens and teaches skills necessary for individual to cope with their disease.
AREAS AN INDIVIDUAL MAY FIND ASSISTANCE THROUGH PSYCHIATRIC REHABILITATION AND SELF MANAGEMENT TRAINING/EDUCATION INCLUDE:
• Stress Management
• Coping Skills
• Symptom Management
• Medication Education
• Activities of Daily Living
• Problem Solving
• Accessing Services
• Communicating Effectively
• Social Skills
• Development of Natural Supports
• Family Training Education
• Illness Education
• COPSD Groups
• Anger Management
• Supported Employment
• Supported Housing
Following is a listing and description of Children’s Mental Health Services provided by Pecan Valley MHMR . Eligibility for the following services will be determined based on an individual’s diagnosis and particular treatment needs. The list is not intended to be all inclusive, but to describe the Primary services offered through Pecan Valley MHMR.
Counseling includes individual, family, and group cognitive behavioral Therapy focused on the reduction or elimination of an individual’s symptoms of emotional disturbance and increasing the individual’s ability to perform activities of daily living.
The Crisis Hotline is a continuously available staffed telephone service providing information, support, and referrals to callers 24 hours per day, 7 days per week.
Crisis Intervention Services
Crisis Intervention Services are interventions provided in response to a crisis in order to reduce symptoms of severe and persistent mental illness and to prevent admission of an individual to a more restrictive environment.
Family Case Management
Family Case Management includes activities to assist the individual’s family members gain and coordinate access to necessary care and Services appropriate to the family members’ needs.
Family Partners are the experienced parents of individuals with serious emotional disturbances who provide peer mentoring and support to the individual’s primary caregivers.
Family Training is training provide to the individual’s primary caregivers to assist the caregivers cope and manage with the individual’s emotional disturbance. Family Training includes instruction on basic parenting skills and other forms of guidance.
Flexible Community Supports
Flexible Community Supports are non-clinical supports that assist in community integration, reduce symptomatology, and maintain quality of life and family integration for children. Flexible community supports include tutors, family aides, specialized camps, therapeutic child-oriented activities, temporary child care, temporary kinship care, initial job development and placement activities, initial independent living support,transportation services, and short-term counseling for family members.
Group Skills Training for Children
Group Skills Training is training provided to groups on individuals that addresses the individual’s serious emotional disturba