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Adult Services at Suncoast Center
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Intervention and Outreach Services
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Homeless Services:
Homeless Outreach Support Team (HOST)
HOST provides services to people in the southern half of Pinellas County
who are homeless and have a mental illness. Outreach services are a key
component of the program. Outreach is provided in nontraditional settings
such as soup kitchens, parks and shelters. The target populations are
individuals with mental illness and/or co-occurring mental illness and
substance use disorder, who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless.
Supportive Housing Services
Treatment is provided to restore and maintain the person served at an
optimal level of stability and functioning to insure that the person
served is able to obtain and maintain a reliable source of income and
stable housing. To accomplish this goal, the program provides: 1)
Ongoing assessment of needs, mental health and substance abuse
counseling; 2) Case management, advocacy and referral services,
including transportation assistance, to effectively link clients to
community resources in order to secure appropriate benefits and
entitlements; 3) Psychiatric and psychopharmacological treatment with
the provision of psychotropic medications; and 4) Individual and
psycho-educational group therapy to provide support, empowerment, and
validation for clients struggling with the co-occurring disorders of
mental illness and substance abuse.
Access to Recovery Services (ATR)
Treatment is provided to intervene on substance use and stabilize
symptoms of mental illness with an integrated treatment approach. The
program is eight weeks in duration and provides 16 group therapy
sessions, weekly individual counseling sessions, an initial psychiatric
evaluation for medical management of symptoms of mental illness,
provision of medications and two follow up medication management
appointments. Upon completion of the program, the person served is
assisted with connecting to continuing care for ongoing treatment and
case management.
Focused Outreach and Intervention Program
The Focused Outreach and Intervention Program is a jail diversion program
designed to engage adults with mental illness and substance abuse that do
not or cannot access needed outpatient treatment, who periodically appear
in jail, at hospital emergency rooms, or in other social service agencies.
The program is collaboration with two other community providers including;
Personal
Enrichment Through Mental Health Services, Inc., and Directions for Mental
Health, Inc. Program wide, the treatment focus is in Role Recovery and
evidenced based practices.
The services provided include: 24 hour referral line, face-to-face
screening and linking with community resources, psychosocial assessment
and treatment plan, psychiatric evaluation, medication therapy, integrated
mental health and substance abuse treatment, in jail screening for signs
and symptoms of an undiagnosed mental illness, in jail assessment of
eligibility for Focused Outreach upon discharge from jail, brokering and
advocacy to the courts to engage the client in mental health treatment in
lieu of incarceration or upon discharge from the jail, linking and
coordination with community resources, housing support, and individual
therapy.
Forensic Intervention Program
This program is designed to offer services to individuals who have been
adjudicated incompetent to proceed to trial (ITP), or not guilty by reason
of insanity (NGI), F.S. 916. There are two components to the program:
Competency Restoration and NGI Intervention. These components are
described below:
Competency Restoration
Competency Restoration provides assistance to people who have been found
ITP learn the basics of the legal system in an effort to have them
re-evaluated as competent. The competency program offers individual or
group training with a forensic trainer in the home, in jail, in the
hospital, or at the Suncoast Center main office building. The competency
program utilizes a competency restoration training curriculum, as well as
Team Solutions, an evidence-based model designed to help individuals
better understand how to manage their illness.
The NGI Intervention
The NGI Intervention piece of the program works with people who have been
found NGI. It provides psycho-educational and stress/time management
training, and reviews the conditions of the conditional release order. The
program offers individual, or group training with a forensic trainer in
the home, in jail, in the hospital, or at the Suncoast Center main office
building. People found NGI are offered groups and training to support them
in their effort to stay in the community, encourage adherence to the
conditions of their release, and support behaviors that will keep them
free of further legal involvement. NGI Intervention provides similar
training to that received in the state hospital and also incorporates the
Team Solutions model for psycho-education, illness management and
recovery, and stress/anger management.
Each individual’s progress is forwarded to the courts, in an attempt to
reduce the amount of time spent on conditional release.
Social Support
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Drop-In Center
The Drop-In Center is a member run community based center that provides a
broad range of opportunities for growth for persons diagnosed with a
mental illness. The Drop-In Center promotes recovery and facilitates the
recovery process via the Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) model of
peer support. The peer managers and center staff promote a variety of peer
support groups which are scheduled on a weekly basis and are listed on the
monthly calendar of events.
Crisis Services
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Crisis Response Team
The Crisis Response Team is a collaborative effort between Suncoast Center
for Community Mental Health, Inc., Directions for Mental Health, Inc., and
Personal Enrichment through Mental Health, Inc. (PEMHS). Crisis response
services are designed to assist individuals in mental health crisis by
providing immediate access to medical and support services with the goal
of reducing the risk of hospitalization or incarceration. Crisis calls are
triaged by the PEMHS crisis line. Clients in need of medications are able
to meet with a psychiatric nurse practitioner within 24 – 48 hours of
contact.
Outpatient Programs
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Adult Outpatient Program
The Adult Outpatient Program provides an array of medical and non-medical
mental health treatment. Medical treatment includes: psychiatric
evaluation; medication management; consultation; laboratory services
related to medication management; a medication line; and open access
groups during office hours in response to urgent concerns regarding
medications. Non-medical treatment services include: integrated mental
health and substance use treatment, biopsychosocial assessment, treatment
planning, individual therapy, group therapy, crisis intervention,
education, family support, and referral services.
Psychosocial Rehabilitation Program
The Psychosocial Rehabilitation Program, based on a Role Recovery best
practices model, is designed to help clients recover roles in life they
have lost due to their mental illness or co-occurring disorder. Services
focus on empowering clients and giving them a sense of hope, helping
clients gain or regain trust within themselves, developing and identifying
support systems and community resources, identifying personal strengths on
which their recovery can be built, learning about the concept of
interdependence rather than dependence on others, and learning about the
functions of their treatment team and how to utilize them effectively.
Services offered are individualized according to each client’s needs and
includes basic living skills, independent living skills, social skills
training, education about mental illness, symptom management skills, job
readiness, GED classes, relapse prevention, individual counseling, and
family counseling when indicated.
Employment Services
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Vincent House
Vincent House is a vocational and social recovery program for adults with
mental illnesses. The program is an International Center for Clubhouse
Development (ICCD) certified clubhouse. Suncoast Center provides this
service via a subcontract with Van Gogh’s Palette, Inc. Persons recovering
from mental illnesses are able to relearn vocational and social skills by
participating in a training program known as the “work-ordered day.”
Persons that choose to participate in the clubhouse are able to perform
certain duties in either of the work units; the food service unit, the
business unit or the employment unit as a way to relearn how to interact
with other people and how to complete work related tasks, thus learning
work skills.
Case Management Services
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Targeted Case Management
Adult Case Management services are designed to provide continuity of care
and improve recovery and quality of life to priority individuals age 18 or
over diagnosed with a mental illness. All individuals receiving Case
Management services are in the community and clients are seen at least
once a month and in their home every other month. The focus of services
centers on recovery as a continual commitment to cope with psychiatric
disabilities; overcome setbacks; make productive choices and reclaim one’s
quality of life.
Role Recovery Team
The Role Recovery Team is designed to engage adults diagnosed with a
mental illness or a co-occurring mental health and substance use disorder.
These individuals have identified the desire to overcome psychiatric
disabilities and setbacks and are ready to make choices regarding their
recovery in identified areas such as symptom management, skill building,
housing, employment and living beyond their disability. The program is
designed to assist and guide clients in reconnecting with society and
rebuilding skills in identified roles in their environment. Integrated
substance abuse and mental health treatment is provided. A team approach
of services will be used to guide and support the clients with their
recovery plans.
A.R.M.S. (Assertive Resource Management Systems)
Assertive Resource Management System (ARMS) is a program that provides
intensive Case Management Services to a fixed caseload of 40 individuals,
18 years of age and older, diagnosed with a mental illness. These
individuals have been discharged from a state mental health hospital, have
had several local hospitalizations within a short period of time or reside
in the community and exhibit behavior or symptomatology that could result
in long term hospitalization if frequent interventions for an extended
period of time were not provided. The focus of the program is to support
the clients in the least restrictive environment and to decrease the
frequency and length of hospitalizations. The ARMS program uses a team
approach to provide services. Access to an ARMS Case Manager is available
24 hours a day, 7 days a week, through the on-call system.
Forensic Florida Assertive Community Treatment
Team (Forensic FACT)
The Forensic FACT Team provides highly individualized, long-term,
intensive, assertive community treatment that includes community-based
treatment, rehabilitation, and support services. Services are provided to
adults over the age of 18 who are diagnosed with a mental illness and have
a valid Chapter 916, Florida Statutes conditional release order.
Specifically, the Forensic FACT Team provides psychopharmacologic
treatment; individual therapy; crisis assessment and intervention;
substance abuse treatment; work related services; support in activities of
daily living; social, interpersonal relationship and leisure time training
and support; assistance with securing safe, decent and affordable living
arrangements; case management services; education, support and
consultation to the person’s family and significant others; competency
training; and support and advocacy through the legal system.
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any of our programs please call 727-327-7656
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