Individualized In-Home Long-Term Mental Health Care Management
Providing residents with meaningful every-day life experiences.
Providing residents with meaningful every-day life experiences.
By providing hope where hopelessness prevails, we offer support for people with mental illnesses on a long-term care basis while ensuring a safe and socially active lifestyle that is integrated into the local community.
Our program experiences an excellent rapport with the local community fostering a welcoming connection for the residents interested in volunteer and employment opportunities.
One concern I had about group housing and the idea of a group home is that most neighboring residents are immediately against this type of operation regardless of the local zoning, there seems to always be opposition. By using individual houses and keeping a low-profile we have not encountered any objections. In fact, the residents have been welcomed as neighbors and not intruders. Mental illness is so misunderstood and has such a negative connotation that it immediately causes red flags when discussions are initiated for just about any location. Our residency model allows our residents to blend into the local community and feel a part of it. We have experienced that the majority of our residents over the last 15 years enjoy the smaller, more intimate settings than larger group homes and facilities. We have proved over time that this program, as simple as it is, works.
References from past and present parents and relatives available upon request.
Each resident in the Program has their own unique success story. We can relate a story for every resident, but that would fill volumes. The most indicative signs that we are successful with the Program are the positive reactions from our residents' families who have experienced a lifetime of the resident's difficult behaviors prior to their admission into the Program. Most of the residents had guardians who were family members, causing quite a bit of strife within their families. We recommended a professional guardian to replace the family member in an attempt to repair the relationships between the resident and their families. This might seem like a simple step, but in actuality it was huge in the mind of the resident. No longer was the parent or relative having to be the person to say yes or no to all of the resident's needs or wants. Families are quite surprised by their relative's progress and improved attitudes when they visit, or when the resident visits them. One of the more heart-warming things about residents going home to visit their family is when the resident says, "I want to go home now", meaning their home with the Program. Parents have called with joyful tears to express their comfort knowing that the resident feels safe and secure enough to consider the Program as their home. The families do not feel that they are sending their relative away to a facility somewhere. The residents are part of a family in the Program.