OUR MISSION
The Empowerment Center’s mission is to foster continual growth in the lives of those we serve, our colleagues, our culturally diverse communities and ourselves. Our efforts enhance recovery, wellness, self-determination, and independence by providing appropriate support, advocacy and outreach efforts delivered with compassion and respect.
Activities Include
- Volunteer Projects
- Cooking and Nutrition Classes
- Community Integration
- Gardening
- Bowling League
- Arts & Crafts
- Recreational Activities
- Computer Lab
- Fitness & Wellness
- T.E.C Movie Theatre
- and many more engaging activities
Our Commitment
The Empowerment Center is a diverse team of professionals providing psychosocial day support services to male and female adults with a primary mental health diagnosis, dual diagnosis, and/or a coexisting disorder, such as substance abuse. It’s our Commitment to improve social interactions, boundaries, self-sufficiency skills, self-esteem self-awareness through positive social prescribing. This includes assisting, advocating, educating individuals struggling with mental illness on the importance pf being a valued member to their community, as well as educating the community on their vitality to our communities.
Our Program, Our Services
The Empowerment Center provides comprehensive psycho-social treatment program that provides interventions to enhance the mental, emotional and physical functioning of participants living in psychiatric distress. Participants will develop and improve their self-awareness, insight, reasoning, judgment, impulse control and personal motivation necessary to perform basic life activities independently by receiving increased structure, staff/peer support, group and individual counseling services.
- Therapeutic groups
- Independent living skills instruction
- Communication skills instruction
- Community integration
- Interpersonal and social skills development
- Menu planning & Food preparation training
- Finance management and budgeting
Bringing Light your way
We understand the need to speak and be heard so our dedicated team is solely focused on giving you the voice you need to speak and the ears you need to hear you.
LAKESHIA CONQUEST
Program Director