Martin County Services

Case Management is a coordination service offered to adults and children who are mentally ill and need help accessing services.

 

Case Managers:

• Provide an assessment of needs

• Develop a service plan

• Link and coordinate services

• Monitor services provided

• Reassess and provide follow-up services

Community Advocacy Team (CAT) is an innovative, intensive case management team that provides a wide range of on-site therapeutic interventions and support.  Services are provided to adults with chronic mental disabilities.  When men and women join the program they are usually non-compliant to service, severely lacking in adequate social and coping skills, and are at high risk for re-hospitalization.

 

The program’s goal is to assist the men and women in finding supportive housing; to maintain quality of life; establish linkages with agencies not otherwise available to them; educate families and significant others for enhanced understanding of mental illness; anticipate and prevent mental and physical deterioration of the individual served and reduce the need for re-hospitalization. 

 

Family Intervention Services is a program that provides community-based substance abuse and mental health case management for parents. Parents who have been identified as having a possible substance abuse problem, that may be contributing to abuse/neglect of their children, are referred by Family Safety Staff from DCF.  Program services include comprehensive behavioral assessments, psychiatric evaluations and removing barriers to treatment.

 

Forensic Substance Abuse  Intervention Programs

New Horizons contracts with Martin County to provide Substance Abuse Intervention Programs for inmates.  The programs consist of structured services targeted toward individuals or groups at risk. The programs focus on reducing those factors associated with the onset or the early stages of substance abuse and related problems. Substance abuse intervention programs, aftercare, and counseling are available in the contracted jail sites.

 

Referrals are made by individual inmate request, forensic mental health, and by jail staff. The intervention program: Steps to Freedom consists of 6-10 week closed groups and are cyclical. Group work is based on the Hazelden Mind-Body approach, 12-step influence, and addictive brain process. Public defenders and state attorney offices may be contacted when appropriate to coordinate court ordered evaluations or intervention treatment.

 

Mobile Crisis Response Team provides immediate on-site assessment, crisis intervention, counseling, linkage and referral for people who are experiencing crisis. Services are accessed by referral from law enforcement officials, emergency room staff, or school officials.  Services also include follow-up as needed to promote crisis resolution, evaluation and arrangement for inpatient hospitalization if necessary.

 

Mobile Crisis services are provided by trained mental health professionals in an effort to provide safe alternatives to involuntary admissions to a treatment facility.

 

Mobile Family Services Team provides prevention/intervention services to families who are at imminent risk of having their children removed from the home due to abuse or neglect.   Families are referred to the team by DCF Protective Investigators and participation is voluntary or may be court ordered. 

 

The Team provides intensive on-site counseling and immediate assistance to help resolve problems the families are facing.  Counselors work with the families for up to 60 days to help stabilize the family and connect them to available community services.

 

The major goal of the Team is to keep the children in their home with their family; and provide services that encourage and support the prevention of child abuse or neglect. 

  

Outpatient Counseling Services provide mental health services for adults and children. Clients may be referred by family, a community agency, the courts, or may be self-referred.  Comprehensive social, psychological and psychiatric evaluations are provided.  Based upon the evaluation and diagnosis, the appropriate treatment will be provided.

 

Psychosocial Rehabilitation services assist clients with learning, relearning or improving skills necessary for independent living. These services focus on the management of barriers created by their disability. A variety of life domain issues are addressed including: medication management, pre-employment, social network enhancement, health maintenance skills and community resource use. Improved life management allows the individual to focus on recovery.

 

Therapeutic Behavioral On-Site Services (TBOS) is designed as an intensive intervention program to assist children who are experiencing severe emotional problems.  The program is offered in the child’s home and in the child’s school setting and includes input from parents, teachers and school officials. 

 

This program provides therapeutic services such as teaching problem solving skills, anger management skills and other treatment methods as needed.  These services are designed to maximize the child’s strengths and reduce behavior problems in school and at home.