Program areas at Eliot Community Human Services
Ambulatory programming: operating four outpatient clinics that provide mental health Services to children, adolescents, adults and elders including diagnostic evaluation, couples, family and group work, psychopharmacological Services and psychological testing, information and referral, consultation and case management Services, substance abuse Services, court ordered treatment for anger management, driving under the influence of alcohol and alcohol treatment, batterer intervention programming and 24 hour emergency coverage. We also offer emergency Services to area hospitals including a crisis team which provides mobile psychiatric evaluation, intervention, stabilization and follow up for children, adults and elders, a 7 bed crisis stabilization diversionary program and case advocacy and support Services.
Youth residential: Eliot Community Human Services has developed anetwork of innovative programs which serve the specialized needs ofchild and adolescent populations across the state. Our range of socialservice and juvenile justice programs strive to provide youth withvalues, skills, and strengths necessary to face and overcome personalchallenges in a way that will enable them to lead healthy andproductive lives. Residences provide a safe structured respectful andeducational environment designed to nurture and promote positivegrowth.
Adult programming: providing Community based residential programming to adults with chronic mental illness as well as to adults with developmental disabilities in homes located throughout the commonwealth. Also providing support to the same populations who have attained a sufficient level of self-preservation and live in their own apartments, this support is done through case management and Community support Services. Day Services for this population are offered in different areas and serve the various levels of the population. We also run 3 pact programs, a national model of care to individuals with mental illness that provide wraparound Services to adults. These day programs offer life skills as well as vocational and employment support Services. We operate a large homeless division covering the entire commonwealth and provide Services such as street based mental health and outreach Services, a shelter for women, housing assistance and advocacy in several communities, entitlement linkage, and medical and mental health treatment. We also run a specialized residential program for adults suffering from brain injuries.
Youth wrap around - Eliot offers a range of children's behavioralhealth Services to masshealth youth with serious emotional disturbance(sed). Services include intensive care coordination and family supportand training, therapeutic mentoring and in-home therapy to families.