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Mental Health Skill-Building - Lynchburg, Anderson Counseling Services

434 Graves Mill Road, Building 100, Suite 1, Lynchburg, VA 24502

Eligibility

Adults: (21 and over) Individuals eligible for MHSB must demonstrate a clinical necessity due to a mental, behavioral, or emotional disturbance that results in major life activities impairment. Clients should need skill building in any of the following areas: symptom management, adherence to psychiatric and medication treatment plans, social skills and personal support system, personal hygiene, food preparation, & money management. Individuals must have a qualifying mental health diagnosis (psychotic disorder, major depressive disorder-recurrent, or bipolar disorder I or II). The individual has had some type of residential treatment such as: Psychiatric hospitalization, residential crisis stabilization, Intensive Community Treatment (ICT) or Program of Assertive Community Treatment (PACT) services, placement in a psychiatric residential treatment facility (TRC Level C) or TDO evaluation as a result of decompensation related to serious mental illness. In the last the 12 months the individual has been prescribed anti-psychotic, mood stabilizing, or anti-depressant medication.
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Application process

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Service area

Lynchburg, VA
Appomattox, VA
Campbell, VA
Bedford, VA

Description

Mental health Skill Building (MHSB) is a home based program that provides support in the home and in the community, for adults who have a diagnosed mental illness. Our MHSB program focuses on teaching skills to promote clients ability to get their needs met and live independently while managing mental health symptoms. Competencies worked on are goal setting, symptom mental health management, adherence to medical treatment plans, personal hygiene, nutrition & food preparation, money management and social skills including going on social outings. Support and adherence to psychiatric and medication treatment plans. Monitoring of housing, medical, educational, rehabilitative and psychiatric services. Mental health symptom management. Social skills and creating a personal support system. Personal hygiene. Healthier living teaching nutrition, food preparation, accessing community resources, and promoting and encouraging healthy leisure activities. Budgeting and money management skills. Assist in overcoming emotional and behavioral barriers to vocational success.

Providing organization

Anderson Counseling Services

Providing high-quality Mental Health services for children and families in selected localities throughout the state.

Mental Health Skill-Building - Lynchburg, Anderson Counseling Services