Consultation
and Education
Center staff are available
to provide consultation with schools, social services,
juvenile diversion, law enforcement, foster parents,
nursing homes, and other members of the human
service community regarding individual cases,
as well as general mental health issues and topics.
Education is offered through speaking engagements,
inservice presentations, and workshops. Topics
addressed may include depression, anxiety, suicide
and suicide prevention, substance abuse, physical
and sexual abuse, parenting, issues related to
children and adolescents, and stress management.
Vocational
Services
The Center contracts with
Aspen Diversified Industries (ADI) to provide
vocational rehabilitation and training services
to individuals in the community with mental illness.
ADI is committed to integrating their employees
into the mainstream work force.
Parenting
Support Services
Under Parenting Support
Services, family advocates meet individually with
families and assist them with filling out paperwork,
family advocacy, family support on the phone and
one on one, provide trainings and collaborative
efforts with schools and other community agencies
to serve the needs of family members. They assist
with treatment planning and school planning for
kids with special needs.
Additionally, support
groups and classes for families are facilitated
through Parenting Support Services. Meetings and
services are free to the public.
Critical
Incident Stress Debriefing
The Center provides crisis
intervention to stabilize cognitive and affective
processes to diminish the impact of a traumatic
event that may happen to anyone in the communities
we serve. Our goal is to decrease the emotional
impact and to be available to provide services
during the recovery period. Examples of incident
that may require a stress debriefing are: serious
injury or death of a co-worker; mass casualty
incidents; suicide or unexpected death; serious
injury or death from an auto accident; death of
a child or violence to a child; events that seriously
threaten lives of responders or crisis workers;
loss of a person following intervention by law
enforcement; an incident with profound emotion;
and any incident where the circumstances are unusual
or the sights and sounds so distressing that a
high level of immediate or delayed emotional reaction
occurs.
Employee
Assistance Programs
The Center contracts with businesses to provide
to their employees confidential counseling, crisis
intervention, consultation, and referral services.
Day
Treatment For Children and Young Adolescents
The Center supports a Day
Treatment program in collaboration with the Montrose
School District and Social Services. It is a program
to help specially selected students become more
independent and responsible through educational,
therapeutic and recreational programming. The
program philosophy guiding the day treatment intervention
and practices is based on a family systems approach,
with the family as the focus of treatment. Students
are supported in returning to public school as
soon as they are determined to be ready.
Intensive
In-Home Family Therapy
The Center supports a family
intervention therapy program for treatment of
adolescents with severe behavior problems. This
is a family-based prevention and intervention
program that treats a range of high-risk youth
and their families. The program may include diversion,
probation, alternatives to incarceration, and/or
reentry programs for youth returning to the community
following release from an institutional setting.
This model of therapy focuses on the multiple
domains and systems within which adolescents and
their families live, on the treatment system,
and on family and individual functioning.
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