Program areas at Chestnut Ridge Counseling Services
The organization offers outpatient Services across the adult lifespan beginning at the age of 18 for all people who may be experiencing a variety of life, emotional and mental health issues from adjustment to life stresses to serious mental illness. The organization staff provides help with obsessions, phobias, anger, grief, parenting problems, martial discord, social situational anxiety, job stress, substance abuse, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder.
The crossroads ltsr (long term structured residence) program provides a home-like atmosphere where individuals who have severe and persistent mental illness can reside while receiving therapeutic treatments. The program's treatment approach has an emphasis on recovery oriented therapy. All residents are encouraged to engage in both the operation of the household which includes the responsibility of daily household chores and the determination of their own treatment plan and goals.
The organization's new directions program focuses on providing children and adolescents with a more intensive and frequent mental health treatment plan than that which is offered in traditional outpatient settings. The new directions program is the only licensed children's partial hospitalization program in fayette county. The target population is children and adolescents between the ages of 5-19 who are still enrolled in school. The program objectives are to treat underlying mental health conditions, to assist the child/ adolescent to cope with problems more successfuly, and to help them learn to demonstrate more age appropriate pro-social and rewarding behaviors. The ultimate goals of the program are to help the children successully re-enter the traditional public school setting, become well adjusted within their families and be productive in their communities.
The organization offers other programs, such as case management, crisis mobile, crisis walk-in, crisis phone, emergency delegate, home based family Counseling, adult partial hospitalization, mental health family support Services, mobile psychiatric rehabilitation, mobile medication nursing Services, telepsychiatric Services, and several other programs.