Psychosocial Rehabilitation Services
Empowerment Center is a recovery-based psychosocial rehabilitation program. Programs are provided to adults for two or more hours per day in a non-residential setting.
The goal of The Empowerment Center is to provide comprehensive psycho-social treatment interventions to enhance the mental, emotional, and physical functioning of participants living in psychiatric distress. The Outpatient Group Facilitators utilize psychosocial skills groups and structured activities that foster building and maintaining appropriate relationships with peers. Community awareness groups in the The Empowerment Center’s facility and weekly community integration outings. These are provided for participants to increase their level of functioning, confidence, boundary awareness and encourage them to improve their quality of life. Participants also can strengthen their additional skills such as occupational skills by participating in additional training such as the Clerical, Environmental Services or Information Technology Team.
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.
How does Empowerment Center work?
Services are planned individually using a person-centered approach which engages the individual, family, and provider team. Recovery goals and objectives are developed based on individual preferences, strengths and potentials.
Individuals must demonstrate a clinical necessity for the service arising from a condition due to mental, behavioral, or emotional illness that results in significant functional impairments in major life activities. As determined by a licensed mental health professional, individuals must meet at least two of the following on a continuing or intermittent basis:
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Who may benefit from these services?
The program serves individuals who have serious mental illness and/or mental illness with other co-occurring disorders such as substance use disorder.
What services are provided in Empowerment Center?
Empowerment Center offers structured day support services including:
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The Empowerment Center recognizes that there are different levels of functioning. To ensure that all participates receive quality service s we divided into three separate categories to address participants’ level of functioning. The participants are not required to remain in the same level group for each type of skills group, as some participants are higher functioning in social skills compared to living skills.
Level I groups are primarily for lower functioning participants that need assistance with managing daily living skills, so they are frequently encouraged, re-directed and given short, concrete instructions to complete a task. The participants are challenged by working on short task oriented goals that can lead to longer projects.
Level II groups are moderately functioning and require some assistance but strive for independence. Their groups give them an opportunity for autonomy and teambuilding by challenging them to work on goals that require the ability to process new information by combining hands on activities with discussions.
Level III groups are designed for participants that function independently. Participants gain more from group discussions and goal-oriented activities. They are given more choices on how they would like to reach the goal of the group to help increase independent thinking and decision making skills. Group goals in a specific area may require multiple groups to complete and help fulfill personal and social needs. The description of program services will address the psychosocial needs of the participants by providing the following groups, structured activities, and interventions.
EMPLOYMENT FORM
The Empowerment Center actively seeks to fill positions for Qualified Mental Health Professional (QMHP) & Qualified Intellectual Disabilities Professional (QIDP) as well as Certified Nursing Assistant and Medical Technicians. Please click the following link to access our employment application form.
INTAKE REFERRAL FORM
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