Program areas at Riverside Community Care
Behavioral health services includes an array of adult, child and family programs that enable people to cope with trauma or crisis, manage symptoms of mental illness, address addiction problems, function to their potential in school, work, and family life, and avoid unnecessary hospitalization. Services include individual, group and family counseling and medication management, consultation, psychiatric day treatment, crisis stabilization, emergency services, and trauma response. Services are provided in clinics, schools, homes, and other Community locations as well as through tele-behavioral health. Licensed outpatient clinics provide mental health treatment to all ages, helping many to avoid unneeded higher levels of Care. Emergency services provide 24/7 crisis assessment, stabilization, referral, and respite. Day treatment programs provide structured therapeutic acute and rehabilitative milieu services that enable people with serious mental health problems achieve stabilization and maintain or re-gain Community residency. A variety of outreach and "wrap around" services provides stabilization, counseling, support and Care coordination for children and adolescents as well as adults who have behavioral health crises and their families.
Community living services includes an extensive array of services for adults with serious mental illness and other disabilities. These programs enable individuals to move from state hospitals to the Community, work toward recovery and achieve satisfying jobs and relationships. Programs help people learn life skills, cope with symptoms of serious mental illness and frequently also significant health issues, manage medications, gain confidence in social interactions, gain employment skills and develop maximum possible independence.services include a range of residential options from 24 hour staffed group homes, congregate apartments, to outreach support for people living in their own apartments. Some programs include specialized in-house day programs for those who are unable to tolerate the stress of attending off site programs. Pact (program for assertive Community treatment) uses a small team based approach to"wrap" an array of clinical, psychopharmalogical and other services around referred individuals.other services around also included are clubhouses for adults with mental illness and employment collaboratives, programs that link networks of disability providers with employers willing to offer jobs to adults and adolescents with varying disabilities. Peer support allows people who are further along in their own recovery to mentor, support and provide role models for other adults coping with mental illness. Clinical Care, relapse prevention, support and promotion of recovery and individual empowerment are hallmarks of these services.
Development and cognitive services.riverside provides a range of services for people with intellectual or developmental challenges, autism and/or brain injury. Services include a range of residential supports, behavioral treatment and consultation, and family support consultation. Services are provided in congregate settings, in family or individual's homes and in office based progams.
Child and family services, mindwise, and special projects.child and family services includes a broad array of programs for children, adolescents and families designed to help children and youth succeed in relationships, school, and in their communities despite emotional, behavioral or social issues that may present challenges. Services include home and school based counseling, Care management, specialized day programming, a school for youth with serious behavioral health challenges, services for victims of domestic violence, intensive family services to reduce the need for residential Care, outreach programs, early intervention, early head start, and consultation services around preschool age children, adoption issues and other child and family concerns.mind wise innovations.riverside offers technology based services and tools for behavioral health screening and education designed to help workplaces, schools, colleges and other institutions identify and respond to risk for suicide and other mental health and addiction concerns.