Program areas at Vantage Health System
Outpatient services are designed to meet the needs of individuals who present distress with mental Health or substance abuse challenges and can use psychotherapeutic interventions or psychiatric medications in a community based least restrictive setting. The services are provided by board certified psychiatrists, advance practice nurses, license clinical social workers, license social workers, licensed professional counselors or licensed certified alcohol and drug counselors in individual or group sessions. The goal is to enable the child, adolescent or adult to relive his/her distress and function independently of therapeutic support. The program serves over 3,000 indiviudals a year in two outpatient locations.
Partial care services is a comprehensive, non-residential, structured mental Health program designed to maximize the client's independence and community living skills. The partial care program serves a designated target population comprised of persons with a serious mental illness experiencing significant functional limitations. Clients may have a history of psychiatric hospitalization, are at risk of psychiatric hospitalization, or require a transitional setting for continued treatment after psychiatric hospitalization. The program provides a range of services necessary to meet the needs of individual clients. Program activities and services are available on a full day basis, five days per week (monday-friday). The program seeks to identify the holistic needs of the individual and to provide or arrange for their needed services. This program serves over 100 adults with serious mental illness a year.
Residential services are designed to provide safe, quality care in a residential program as an alternative to psychiatric hospitalization for seriously mentally ill adults. Residential care is provided by Vantage in long term, transitional and supportive housing situations by licensed clinical social workers, registered nurses and registered counselors. Vantage owns and operates 17 residential properties housing 68 adults with serious mental illness and provides in home outreach services to an additional 90 individuals.
Other programs include daccks and opening doors.