Program areas at PfP
Community-based mental health program - we partner with persons served to address mental illness, homelessness, trauma, and serious health problems. Teams coordinate all medical and psychiatric care, housing, medication management, activities of daily living, treatment planning and goal setting, linkage with community resources, supportive counseling, and crisis intervention. Services include assistance for persons who are hiv positive with co-occurring mental illness and substance use issues as well as psychosocial rehabilitation. We strive to advance clients' health by improving mental wellness, decreasing substance abuse, and assisting in access to physical health care.
Children & youth services program - we offer services for youth experiencing behavioral health problems, including court interventions, by providing intensive in-home family centered services. In addition, we provide an early intervention program that helps address behavioral concerns with preschool and/or school-age children and offers positive strategies for promoting good behavior.
Residential program - Places for People, inc. Supports independent living by assisting the People we serve with finding and negotiating rental arrangements, providing 24/7 staffing at multiple types of residential settings, and utilizing rental subsidy programs.
Community-based substance use treatment program - we provide individual and group counseling and community support services to individuals working toward recovery from substance use disorders. Persons served also have access to psychiatry services for medication assisted treatment and/or treatment for other co-occurring mental health needs. Staff members work collaboratively with persons served to support sustainable recovery goals that achieve a high quality of life.
The research and evaluation program encompasses illume: the behavioral health center of excellence. Illume provides internally and externally focused evaluation and training/technical assistance (tta) services to promote the uptake of evidence-based practices in behavioral health organizations and related human service organizations. In addition, illume provides mental health awareness training to increase awareness of and knowledge about behavioral health conditions for members of the general public. Illume's social and behavioral research program focuses on psychiatric epidemiology, intervention research, and implementation science to increase the quality of care for persons with behavioral health conditions across the lifespan, particularly those with serious mental illness, substance use disorders, co-occurring disorders, and serious emotional disturbances.