Focus on Adults
South Community offers a wide range of programs designed to encourage recovery and
promote skill building. Our goal is to remain dynamic and responsive to the the ever
changing needs of our consumers. Our program includes services that address behavioral
health problems such as:
- Depression
- Stress
- Marriage and family issues
- Grief
- Aging parents
- Physical, mental, and sexual abuse
- Women's issues
- Men's issues
- Challenges of blended families
- Low self-esteem
- Job/career difficulties
- Panic attacks and Phobias
- Psychosis / Dissociative
- Parent/child conflicts
Co-occurring illness (mental health and chemical dependency
issues)
Our programs are always designed to meet the unique needs of each
individual consumer. Our focus is on consumer participation in their treatment and
recovery.
Adults with Severe
Mental Disability (SMD) and Adults with Severe and Persistent Mental Illness (SPMI)
South Community offers community psychiatric
support services which can include assisting consumers in self-care, referring consumers
to job training programs, assisting with entitlements, helping to secure appropriate
housing, helping them to manage daily living skills, and providing links to other
community and professional services. South Community also has a special community
psychiatric support program for SMD adults with chronic/terminal medical conditions.
Integrated
Dual-Disorder Treatment (IDDT)
South Community offers a treatment program for
adults with a co-occurring severe mental illness and substance abuse. IDDT is a RECOVERY
focused, evidence based practice that seeks to improve the quality of life for persons
with co-occurring disorders by integrating mental health and substance abuse.
Service are provided by a multi-disciplinary team and are tailored to meet the individual
needs of the consumer and family based upon the consumer's readiness and stage of change.
Wellness
Recovery Action Planning (WRAP)
South Community offers a structured recovery
planning program that allows consumers that experience psychiatric symptoms to develop a
Wellness Toolbox. In their Toolbox are lists of skills and strategies help
consumers to keep themselves well, decrease symptoms, increase personal responsibility and
improve their quality of life.
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