Community Research Foundation Inc

Programs: Outpatient mental health services:crfs outpatient programs provide integrated, coordinated community-based psychosocial rehabilitation services for adults 18 and older who have serious mental illness, as well as individuals with co-occurring mental health and substance disorders and to seriously emotionally disturbed (sed) children, youth and their familiesservices to the adult population are based on the principles of psychosocial rehabilitiation, with emphasis on attending to the whole person and re-establishing ones life as a result of the consequences of mental illness, rather than simply attending to the symptoms of the illness. The services focus on recovery, rehabilitation, and community integration, and are individualized to meet the needs of each client. Clients actively participate in setting service plan goals and are encouraged to involve family and significant others in the recovery plan. Services to children and their families utilize the family systems and wraparound approach in providing comprehensive, strength-based and culturally and linguistically competent mental health services. Services are client and family-centered and focus on addressing the needs of the client and family while respecting and working within their cultural beliefs, supports, and norms. The childrens system of care (csoc) principles are utilized which emphasize a strength-based collaboration among family, therapist, case manager, social services, school, commnuity, and medical services in the assessment, planning and delivery of all services.

intensive mobile assertive community treatment (act programs):act programs provide intensive, community-based, case management, and housing services for over eight hundred and fifty previously homeless adults with serious and persisten mental illness in the san diego county. The program utilizes the evidence-based practice of assertive community treatment (act). The goal of the program is to provide individuals a higher level of community care and to assist them in reaching their life goals, in part by providing much needed temporary and permanent housing, utilizing a housing first model. Virtually, every client participant has been able to secure housing with crf assistance. Organizational representative payee services are provided to eligible clients to ensure clients benefits are utilized to meet their primary needs and conserved funds are safeguarded.

short-term acute residential treatment (start): the start programs (also referred to as crisis residential programs) offer an alternative to hospitalization for the person who is suffering a psychiatric crisis of such magnitude so as to not to be manageable on an outpatient basis. They are designed to be community-based, homelike environments which specialize in psychosocial rehabilitiation of each individual who comes through the door. They range in size from eleven to sixteen beds and are staffed twenty-four hours a day by masters-prepared mental health professionals. The programs seek to ensure that each resident is connected to a variety of social service supports within the community, to aid the transition into successful living beyond the start programs. During this tax year, approximately 29,000 crisis residential days were provided.