We provide a variety of supports and programs, which are grounded in the following beliefs and principles. We believe:
From Supportive Concepts For Families, Inc.
Behavioral Health
People all have worth, strengths, capacities, abilities and resilience.
People can and do overcome the barriers and obstacles that confront them, achieve wellness and have a better future.
People can live, work, learn, and fully participate in their community.
People have a personal responsibility for their own self-care and journeys towards a meaningful and fulfilling life.
We also believe the best way to support and assist someone is to place them in the driver seat; to systematically give the person a voice as partner (through feedback) to make sure that the helping process is actually tailored to their individual needs and preferences. Being Person Directed is not just a good idea or a philosophical imperative, it is required based on the integration of the best available research we have today. Therefore, when serving someone, we are committed to building a partnership with the person with the integration of the best available research we have today.
We can be responsive to someone’s unique strengths, preferences and varying needs throughout their life.
We can trust and adopt someone’s perspective on their own life and how we can best help them accomplish what they are hoping for.
We can collaborate and accommodate to implement the person’s unique path towards a better future.
We recognize that as a system we have considerable influence and power over the lives of the people we serve. Our commitment to collaborate and truly partner with people is representative of the need to rebalance the traditional power structure within the behavioral health supports and services.
The programs we currently offer are:
CHIPP Services (Community Hospital Integration Project Program)
What We Believe About Providing CHIPP Services
Consumers struggling with mental illness can remain free of long-term psychiatric hospitalization if intensive support is made available in the community setting.
Behavioral health support should not be limited to housing support, but also, clinical support, financial assistance and vocational assistance.
Psychiatric follow-up should occur on a more frequent basis in order to defer need for long-term hospitalization.
Respite settings offer alternative means to restore behavioral health and decrease the need for psychiatric hospitalization.
What Services Are Provided
Housing Support: up to forty (40) hours of supported living assistance, help with housing selection, transportation, merchandising, and attendance at appointments.
Services are provided to recipients in varied locations including: personal apartment settings; shared housing arrangements; with family/friends; personal care boarding homes; life sharing (foster family like) arrangements; and Supportive Concepts for Families, Inc. operated residential programs.
Clinical Support: monthly psychiatric visits, weekly monitoring of medical and psychiatric needs by a psychiatric nurse, weekly medication supplies, and assistance with appointment scheduling.
Twenty-four (24) hour-on-call service to address any emergency issue.
Twenty-four (24) hour-on-call service to address any emergency issue.
Crisis Intervention: provision of temporary respite to aid in the restoration of behavioral health and deferment of psychiatric hospitalization.
Financial Assistance: budgeting services, representative payee sponsorship, apartment furnishings, rent subsidies (up to sixty percent (60%)), and security deposits.
Vocational Assistance: Vocational Coordinator assistance to develop resumes, and explore local job/volunteer markets, job placement and follow-up.
CHIPP Forensic Services are available to BH consumers serving prison sentences and designated by Service Access & Management, Inc. or county BH programs as needing community support. These services include:
- Psychiatric evaluations/monthly follow-up.
- Medication monitoring.
- Respite/Family Living placement.
- Financial/budgeting assistance.
- Apartment search, leasing advice, security deposit loans.
- Assistance with resolution of legal obligations.
- Vocational guidance and job placement.
Crisis Services
What We Believe About Providing Crisis Services
People who develop challenging behavior or behavioral problems need an immediate response from concerned and caring staff.
The goal of crisis services needs to be effective stabilization of the person’s behavior through assistive strategies and to provide other supports to caregivers.
Crisis interventions should be as minimal and as least intrusive as are necessary to stabilize the individual.
What Crisis Services We Provide
In-Home Crisis Intervention
Provides individuals and their caregivers with short-term, intensive assistance for periods of two to three hours. The crisis plan developed by the intervention specialist is designed to allow the individual to work through the current stressors. The aim of the crisis intervention plan is to initiate strategies that will decrease the severity and frequency of crisis episodes.
Crisis Respite (In-home)
Supports individuals in crisis to remain in his/her home as an alternative to psychiatric hospitalization or other placement while supportive interventions are instituted. This assistance is founded on the belief that disruptive behavior need not be compounded by disrupting the individual’s setting. The intervention specialist develops a crisis plan that focuses on assistance with anything in the person’s daily living routine or environment that is escalating behavior.
Crisis Respite (Out of Home)
Supports individuals in crisis to remain out of the hospital while changing their current environment. This service recognizes that there are times when individuals who live alone may need to be supported and reassured by people who are readily available to them. Furthermore, there are times when those who live in a family setting or with others, find themselves negatively influenced by the group dynamics. They may benefit from time away from this situation while they work on developing coping skills for re-entry. This respite occurs in licensed homes with trained crisis intervention specialists. It is available for periods of up to thirty (30) days.
Crisis Transportation
Is available to transport an individual in crisis to a new service location, psychiatric hospital or to any other location as may be necessary. This service is available at a moment’s notice twenty-four (24) hours a day.