ary caregivers.
Routine Case Management
Routine Case Management includes activities to assist an individual and their caregiver to gain and coordinate access to necessary care and services appropriate to the individual’s needs.
Screening involves the gathering of triage information to determine the need for in-depth assessment. This service includes screenings to determinethe urgency of the individual’s needs.
Skills Training and Development
Skills Training and Development is training provided to an individual and their primary caregiver that addresses the severe emotional disturbance and symptom-related problems that interfere with the individual’s functioning, 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 ability to remain in a community setting.
Supplemental Nursing Services
Supplemental Nursing Services are provided by a qualified professional to ensure the direct application of a psychoactive medication and to assess target symptoms, side effects and adverse effects, and the impact of psychoactive medication for the individual and family in accordance with the individual’s treatment plan. Supplemental Nursing Services include checking vital signs, refilling pill packs, monitoring self-administration of medications, pill pack counts, and evaluating the severity of side effects.
Who are Peer Providers?
A Peer Provider (Certified Peer Specialist, Peer Suppport Specialist, Recovery Coach) is a person who uses his or her lived experience of recovery from mental illness and/or addiction. Through learned skills, Peers are able to deliver services in behavioral health settings to promote mind-body and resiliency.
Based on the philosophy of peer support, services include programs, discussions, events, and groups that are led by people in recovery and provide current clients with hope for recovery. By walking in their shoes, Peer Providers give clients comfort in truly understanding their challenges and act as a support system for when someone encounters struggles on their road to recovery.
Strengths Peer Providers Add to the Integrated Workplace?
Peer Providers bring unique strengths and qualities to the integrated care team. These strengths include:
- Personal experience with whole health recovery that includes addressing wellness of both mind and body
- Insight into the experience of internalized stigma and how to combat it
- Compassion and commitment to helping others, rooted in a sense of gratitude
- Cant take away the "you do not know what it's like" excuse
- Experience of moving from hopelessness to hope
- In a unique position to develop a relationship of trust, which is espcially helpful in working with people in trauma recovery
- A developed skill in monitoring their illness and self-managing their lives holistically
Pecan Valley Peer Providers?
Who Is On Our Team:
- Part-time Peer Provider and full-time Peer Provider in Cleburne.
- Full-time Certified Peer Specialist/WRAP Facilitator in Weatherford and Mineral Wells
- Part-time Certified Peer Specialist/WRAP Facilitator in Weatherford.
We are expecting continued growth to the program and throughout the Region. PVC is excited about the program growing because we have seen first-hand how it can change lives.
If you are interested in learning more about becoming a Peer Provider in our 6 county territory, please contact Michelle Key at firstname.lastname@example.org or (817) 558-1121.
*Peer Provider information courtesy of SAMHSA http://www.integration.samhsa.gov/workforce/peer-providers