Southeast Florida Behavioral Health Network Inc

Programs: Adult mental health: adult mental health services fall under one of the following three categories. 1. Treatment: treatment is a systematic approach to relieving the primary symptoms and life results of mental illnesses. Treatment is intended to lessen and remove the symptoms of mental illnesses, prevent later reoccurrence or worsening of symptoms, and help individuals cope with symptoms when medications and other treatments are only partially successful. Treatment typically contains four elements: medications; individual therapy; crisis intervention; and when necessary psychiatric hospitalization. 2. Rehabilitation: rehabilitation is the process of helping individuals minimize the effects of mental illnesses on major role skills and develop greater competencies in employment, activities of daily living, social performance. They promote recovery. 3. Support: support is practical, hands-on assistance to help people handle the necessities of daily living and assist them in their recovery process.

adult substance abuse:the department provides treatment for substance abuse through a community-based provider system that offers detoxification, treatment and recovery support for adolescents and adults affected by substance misuse, abuse or dependence. Detoxification services: detoxification focuses on the elimination of substance use. Specifically, detoxification services utilize medical and clinical procedures to assist individuals and adults as they withdraw from the physiological and psychological effects of substance abuse. Detoxification may occur in either a residential or outpatient setting, depending on the needs of the individual. Treatment services: treatment services include a wide array of assessment, counseling, case management, and support provided in residential and non-residential (outpatient) settings. Treatment services are designed to help individuals and their families who have lost their abilities to control the substance use on their own and require formal, structured intervention and support. Services include various levels of residential, outpatient, and recovery support based on the severity of the addiction. Research indicates that persons who successfully complete substance abuse treatment have better post-treatment outcomes related to future abstinence, reduced use, less involvement in the criminal justice system, reduced involvement in the child-protective system, employment, increased earnings, and better health. Recovery support: recovery support is offered during and following treatment to further assist individuals in their development of the knowledge and skills necessary to maintain their recovery. These services include transitional housing, life skills training, parenting skills, and peer-based individual and group counseling. Individuals who pose a significant risk to themselves or others due to substance abuse impairment can be referred for involuntary assessment and stabilization through the marchman act.

children's substance abuse: see adult substance abuse program above.

children's mental health:the children's mental health program is a coordinated network of community-based services and supports that is youth-guided and family-driven to produce individualized, evidence-based, culturally and linguistically competent outcomes that improve the lives of children and their families. This program provides funding for in-home and community based outpatient services, crisis services and residential treatment (including psychiatric residential treatment facilities, therapeutic foster care and therapeutic group homes provided through joint medicaid and mental health program contracts with behavioral health managed entities and providers). The program also provides coordination and management of the juvenile incompetent to proceed (jitp) program. The system requires that services are individualized, culturally competent, integrated, and coordinated. The aim is to provide a smooth transition, from children's mental health to the adult mental health system for continued age-appropriate services and supports. These services are designed to build resilience and to prevent, severity, duration and disabling aspects of children's mental and emotional disorders. Other program services totaling $164,975 are included in this category.