Psycho-social Rehabilitation Day Support Services

HealthyMinds, Inc. Psycho-social Rehabilitation Day Support Services was created to improve the lives of people with mental illness by providing therapeutic and supportive services that are needed to be able to live at their highest level within society. The service will focus on training in or reinforcement of functional skills and appropriate behavior related to the individual’s health and safety, activities of daily living, and use of community resources. The program will assist with medication management, monitoring the health, nutrition and physical condition of the individual.

Individuals must demonstrate a clinical need for the service arising from a condition due to mental, behavioral, or emotional illness that results in significant functional impairments in major life activities. Individuals must need at least two of the following criteria:

• -Have difficulty in establishing or maintaining normal interpersonal relationships to such a degree that they are at risk of hospitalization, homelessness, or isolation from social supports.
• -Exhibit inappropriate behavior(s) that repeated interventions by mental health, social services, or judicial systems are necessary.
• -Exhibit difficulty in cognitive ability such that they are unable to recognize personal danger or recognize significantly inappropriate social behavior.
• -Require help in basic living skills, such as maintaining personal hygiene, preparing food and maintaining adequate nutrition, or managing finances to such a degree that health or safety is jeopardized.

Eligibility for Service

To meet criteria for this service, an individual must meet one of the following:

• A. Have experienced long term psychiatric hospitalization
• B. Lack daily living skills or interpersonal skills C. Have limited or no support system
• D. Is unable to function in the community Without intensive intervention
• E. Require long term services to be maintained in the community

Individuals eligible for this service may have a dual diagnosis of both mental illness and Intellectual Disability. HealthyMinds, Inc. Psycho-social Rehabilitation Day Support Services was created to improve the lives of people with mental illness by providing therapeutic and supportive services that are needed to be able to live at their highest level within society. The service will focus on training in or reinforcement of functional skills and appropriate behavior related to the individual’s health and safety, activities of daily living, and use of community resources. The program will assist with medication management, monitoring the health, nutrition and physical condition of the individual.