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Other
Branches
Approach:
Menu Driven
Capitated
Funding
Environment:
High Risk, High Support
Service
Culture
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The
Village's Designed Care Tree
Structure: Integrating Services
Inside and
Out
- All services are integrated around the goal of recovery and each
member’s pursuit of a full, productive life in the community at
large
- Services are integrated to serve the "whole person" and
not just his/her symptoms of mental illness
- Services are integrated for each member on an individualized basis
depending on their expressed needs and wants
- Services are integrated so that members can strive for quality of
life outcomes that affect his/her finances, housing, employment,
education, legal, social, substance abuse and medical care needs.
- Services are integrated no matter where they take place—inside or
outside the Village. This means that support follows the member and
extends beyond the walls of the Village.
Inside
the Village
- Each member has a service team that oversees the integration
of services the member has requested for his/her quality of
life action plan and is the first point of contact for the
member in times of crisis
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- Each member’s team includes a psychiatrist, social worker,
nurse, and paraprofessionals who share responsibility for the
member’s services
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- Each member’s service coordination team is
reinforced by specialists in employment, community
integration, money management and substance abuse.
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- All staff work from the same action plan, coordinating
efforts on behalf of the member
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Outside the Village
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- As members pursue their options for a full and productive
life in the community, the support of the Village staff
follows them.
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- Staff accompanies members, as requested, as they try
community options
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- Staff helps members identify potential natural supports and
build a network.
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- Staff recognizes that members will experience many life
events that are not directly related to the Village and its
internal operations. Staff efforts aim to encourage and
support members in as many outside interactions and
experiences as possible.
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- Outside the Village, staff support members in their efforts
to live independently in their own apartments, work for
community employers, attend school or college, spend time with
their families, share social and recreational activities with
friends, become financially independent, maintain health,
pursue interests and hobbies, join community groups and take
charge of their own lives
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