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Intellectual Disability Services - Norton, Planning District One Behavioral Health Services

Services include: Emergency Services are unscheduled and sometimes scheduled crisis intervention, stabilization, and referral assistance provided over the telephone or face-to-face, if indicated, 24 hours per day and seven days per week to people seeking such services for themselves or others. Services may include walk-ins, home visits, and jail interventions. Emergency Services may include preadmission screening activities associated with admission to a state hospital or training center. Project REACH is a program to support adults and adolescents with intellectual disability and/or developmental disability, as well as mental health condition or challenging behavior that is negatively affecting their quality of life. Purchase of Inpatient Hospitalization Psychiatric Services/Medication includes the provision of psychiatric nursing services by licensed psychiatrist and nurses and may include medication services including prescribing medications and medication management. Outpatient Services are generally provided on an individual, group, or family basis, and usually in a clinic or similar facility or in another location. Outpatient Services may include diagnosis and evaluation, screening and intake, counseling, psychotherapy, behavior management, psychological testing and assessment, laboratory and other ancillary services. Case Management assist individuals and their family members to access needed services that are responsive to the person's individual needs. Services include: identifying and reaching out to individuals in need of services, assessing needs and planning services, linking the individual to services and supports, assisting the person directly to locate, develop, or obtain needed services and resources, coordinating services with other providers, enhancing community integration, making collateral contacts, monitoring service delivery, and advocating for people in response to their changing needs. Day Support Services are services provided in the community and in the program that are individualized activities, supports, training, supervision, and transportation to individuals with intellectual disability to improve their functioning or maintain an optimal level of functioning. Specific components of this service develop or enhance the following skills: self-care and hygiene, eating, toileting, task learning, community resource utilization, environmental and behavioral skills, medication management and transportation. Group Homes provide overnight care in a group home with an intensive treatment or training program. The group home provides 24 hour supervision for individuals who require training and assistance in basic daily living functions such as meal preparation, personal hygiene, transportation, recreation, laundry, and budgeting. Employment Services provide work and support services to groups or individuals in non-residential settings. a. Sheltered Employment Services provide work in a setting that is for individuals with disabilities who are not ready, are unable, or choose not to enter into competitive employment in an integrated setting. This service includes the development of social, personal, and work-related skills based on an individualized services plan. b. Supported Employment provides paid employment to an individual placed in an integrated work setting in the community. The employer employs the individual. On-going support services that may include transportation, job-site training, counseling, advocacy, and any other supports needed to achieve and to maintain the individual in the supported placement are provided by an employment specialist, co-workers of the supported employee, or other qualified individuals. Supported Residential Services are services that support individuals in their own housing arrangements with staff.

Physical Address

1941 Park Avenue Southwest, Norton, VA 24273

Fax

(276) 679-5754

Application process

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Languages

Spanish

Service area

Norton, VA Scott, VA Lee, VA Wise, VA

Agency info

Planning District One Behavioral Health Services

Planning District One MH, DV and SA