Riverside Community Care

Programs: Our behavioral health services include an array of adult, child, and family programs that enable people to cope with trauma, manage mental health conditions, address addiction problems, function to their potential in school, work, and family life, and avoid unnecessary hospitalization. Riverside offers individual, group, and family counseling, medication management, consultation, crisis stabilization, emergency services, and trauma response. Services are provided in clinics, schools, homes, and other community locations. Licensed outpatient clinics provide mental health treatment to all ages, helping many to avoid needed higher levels of care. Emergency services provide 24/7 crisis assessment, stabilization, referral, and respite. Day treatment programs provide structured therapeutic acute and rehabilitative milieu services that enable people with serious mental health problems to achieve stabilization and maintain or regain community residency. A variety of outreach and "wrap around" services provides stabilization, counseling, support and care coordination for children and adolescents as well as adults who have behavioral health crises and their families. Riverside's renowned trauma center helps schools, communities, workplaces, human service providers, and individuals cope with the emotional aftermath of natural disasters, accidents, suicides, homicides, and terrorism. Suicide prevention is a core component of the trauma center as well, helping schools and communities reduce the risk of suicide among teens, elders, veterans, and other populations. Some services are provided in conjunction with healthcare systems and hospitals, integrating behavioral and physical healthcare.

Our child and family services include a broad array of programs for children, adolescents, and families designed to help children and youth succeed in relationships, school, and in their communities despite emotional, behavioral, or social issues that may present challenges. Services include home and school-based counseling, care management, specialized day programming, a school for youth with serious behavioral health challenges, services for survivors of domestic violence, intensive family services to reduce the need for residential care, outreach programs, early intervention, early head start, and consultation services around preschool age children, adoption issues and other child and family concerns.

Riverside's Community Living Services include an extensive array of services for adults with serious mental health challenges and other disabilities. These programs enable individuals to move from state hospitals to the community, work toward recovery, and achieve satisfying jobs and relationships. Programs help people learn life skills, cope with symptoms of serious mental health challenges and frequently also significant health issues, manage medications, gain confidence in social interactions, gain employment skills and develop maximum possible independence. Services include a range of residential options from 24 hour staffed group homes, congregate apartments, to outreach support for people living in their own apartments. Some programs include specialized in-house day programs for those who are unable to tolerate the stress of attending off-site programs. PACT (Program for Assertive Community Treatment) uses a small team-based approach to"wrap" an array of clinical, psychopharmacological, and other services around referred individuals. Other services around also included are Clubhouses for adults with mental health conditions and employment collaboratives- programs that link networks of disability providers with employers willing to offer jobs to adults and adolescents with varying disabilities. Peer support allows people who are further along in their own recovery to mentor, support, and serve as role models for other adults coping with mental illness. Clinical care, relapse prevention, support and promotion of recovery, and individual empowerment are hallmarks of these services.