Rehabilitation & treatment

Assertive Community Treatment

Club United

Casita Unida

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ASSERTIVE COMMUNITY TREATMENT

The Weston United Community Renewal ACT program delivers integrated treatment, rehabilitation and support services through a mobile, multidisciplinary mental health team to persons in upper Manhattan at least 18 years of age, who are diagnosed with a serious mental illness and whose needs are not well met by more traditional service delivery approaches. The team includes Psychiatrist, Social Workers, Registered Nurse, Family Specialist, Substance Abuse Specialist and Employment Specialist. Through methods including street outreach, home/hospital/program visits, representative payee, probation/parole and Assisted Outpatient Treatment, the ACT team services clients who are often high users of emergency and/or crisis services, have co-occurring substance abuse disorders, are isolated from community supports, are in danger of losing their housing and have been involved with the criminal justice system.

BLENDED CASE MANAGEMENT

Weston United's Blended Case Management Program provides case management services to 132 adults who suffer with severe and persistent mental illnesses, and who live in Harlem or northern Manhattan. The goal of this program is to decrease hospitalizations, link our consumers to community resources and to assist them in navigating the mental health system. We have three teams within the program, each team consist of two ICMs and one SCM. Consumers are assigned to either an Intensive Case Manager (ICM) or a Supportive Case Manager (SCM) depending on their level of functioning and the program's eligibility criteria. Goals are set in individualized treatment plans and services are provided in six month increments. We also provide a 24 hours a day, 7 days a week on call emergency service to our consumers. After careful utilization review, clients can step down to a less intensive level or stepped up to a more intensive level based on the progress and the level of functioning.

CLUB UNITED AND CASITA UNIDA

A Clubhouse is a psychosocial program where members, not patients or clients ,can come to regain their integrity and re-integrate back into society successfully. Club United is located on 125th Street in the heart of Harlem; Casita Unida, the world's first and only Latino clubhouse, located in El Barrio, offers vocational services to the mentally ill Spanish speaking population of this community and city wide. Work in the clubhouse ranges from clerical to cooking, education to peer advocacy. Members and staff work together side by side to enhance meaningful and unique relationships. One of the most important steps members make toward greater independence is transitional employment, where they work in the community at real jobs. Members can also enjoy recreational and socialization activities on the premises and in the community. Members receive assistance with securing government benefits, housing, case management, advancing their education, medical and psychiatric care. Membership is for life so members have all the time they need to secure their new life in the community.