Adult Mental Health Services:
Adult Mental Health programming focuses on the following goals:
Symptom Management and Stabilization - Clinicians, case managers, and psychiatrists work with the consumer as part of a treatment team to achieve psychiatric stabilization within the community. Psychotropic medication, verbal therapies, and case management are the primary interventions utilized to reach this goal. The clinical staff may consult with the consumer's family/significant others, residential staff, chemical dependency treatment providers, and other community agencies as necessary to pursue stabilization goals.
Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Recovery - Emphasizing values of consumer empowerment, advocacy, and wellness, staff employ interventions geared to improve consumer satisfaction with their life roles in the areas of living, learning, working, and socializing. The clinical staff works with consumers on skill development, enhancement of their natural support system, and the identification and exercising of their consumer choice. Clinical staff and consumer collaborate with psychiatric rehabilitation practitioners, educational/vocational personnel, housing providers, benefits specialists, consumer run agencies, and peers within the clubhouse setting, to work towards their recovery goals.
Forensic Treatment and Community Safety - Commitment to our consumers involved in the criminal justice system and a commitment safety is the focus of our forensic programming. Specialized programming for sexual offenders and perpetrators of domestic violence are offered with group counseling as the primary modality supplemented by individual sessions. Mid-Erie clinicians work closely with the staff of New York State Parole, Erie County probation, Drug Courts, Domestic Violence Courts, and Erie County Forensic Mental Health with an emphasis on care coordination, communication, and community safety. In addition, mentally ill individuals who are involved in the Criminal Justice System are linked with our existing programming to address their psychiatric and rehabilitation needs.
Adult Mental Health Clinic Treatment - This program is designed for mentally ill consumers who typically need psychiatric intervention weekly or less, to address symptoms that are interfering with their daily functioning. The Seriously and Persistently Mentally Ill and Seriously Mentally Ill individuals at risk for imminent lethality or institutionalization are of the highest priority for treatment and are generally provided long-term supportive counseling. Individuals with acute problems are provided with short-term goal-oriented intervention.
Services are available for adults in the form of individual, family and group counseling. Service plans may include the participation of others with whom the customer has a relationship.
Medical evaluation and administering of appropriate psychotropic medication may be part of the comprehensive treatment plan that is also available in conjunction with counseling services.
Mid-Erie has specialized programming for the Forensic population. We provide services to special need populations who are involved with
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REHABILITATION SERVICES FOR ADULTS
Continuing Day Treatment-- Mid-Erie Centers for Self-Development are designed to help persons with psychiatric disabilities manage the symptoms of their illness while pursuing a recovery plan that enhances their level of functioning in the areas of living, learning, working, and socializing.
The Centers for Self-Development focus on the following three (3) areas:
Rehabilitation Preparation/Enhanced Community Living - Activities help individuals improve self-esteem and awareness, increase environmental awareness and increase functional abilities so they can discover new possibilities for the future.
MICA - Activities help individuals with mental illness and chemical use problems to discover the impact of chemicals on their lives; to manage the symptoms of mental illness; and ultimately to achieve abstinence and psychiatric stability in the community.
Hospital Diversion/Community Stabilization- Designed for consumers requiring a more intensive and structured level of treatment enabling them to remain stabilized in the community upon return from hospitalization or as prevention to hospitalization. Activities help individuals to maintain existing skills and develop supports that enable them to sustain themselves in the community.
Continuing Day Treatment:
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Psychosocial Club- Mid-Erie's Sunset Social Club provides socialization and recreational activities within a Clubhouse Model. The Club utilizes a work ordered day format with strong emphasis on peer choice, participation, and leadership. Additional resources include benefits advisement, literacy groups, and computer skills assistance. The Sunset Social Club operates on Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday evenings as well as Sunday afternoons.
Sunset Social Club:
1131 Broadway
Phone: (716) 896-7350