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- EIN 59-2092717
- (727) 327-7656
- 4024 Central Ave St Petersburg FL 33711 USA
- www.suncoastcenter.com
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Community Mental Health Centers, Mental Health
Mission: "strengthening, protecting, and restoring lives for healthy community" is the mission statement of the agency. Significant activities of the agency are based on providing the most effective and efficient behavioral health and social support services for children, adults and families that facilitate positive change and improved health. Suncoast center provides those services through a comprehensive model that addresses the multifaceted, complex and interrelated behavioral, psychological and financial needs of individuals and families. Services are provided regardless of the person's sex, nationality, and/or religion; and are administered with respect to the individual. In addition, the agency is committed to increasing the community's awareness of methods to prevent and/or treat various mental health and substance abuse needs, and accomplishes that through a variety of community education activities and involvement on a broad range of collaborative health related committees in the commu
Programs: Adult integrated services provides an array of evidence based medical and non-medical behavioral health treatment crucial to an individual confronting significant mental health and substance abuse challenges in their lives. The treatment approaches are recovery-oriented and focused on the needs of the individual. Medical treatment includes psychiatric evaluations, consultation, individual therapy, medication management, and laboratory services. Non-medical services include biopsychosocial assessment, treatment planning, individual and group therapy, crisis intervention, education, family support, rehabilitation services, and referral services.
total family strategy provides in-home evidence based prevention and early intervention programs/services for families at risk of dependency upon public funded economic and social service support, demonstrate mental health and/or substance abuse challenges, domestic violence and/or at risk with juvenile and/or criminal justice. Primary levels of care are provided through therapeutic services, family case management, early childhood services (for children 0-5 demonstrating severe behavioral or developmental needs), intensive family services (responding to child protection referrals), and peer-to-peer mentoring (parent aide).
family integrated services provides children under 18 and their family members with crucial services to respond to mental health and substance abuse challenges. These services include both medical and non-medical services. Provided on an outpatient model, services include mental health assessment, psychiatric evaluation, medication management, individual counseling, group therapy programs, family support therapy, and resource assistance. Clinical services utilize evidence based models and are built upon the child's strengths, needed resources, family-centered, and solution focus.
other quality programs and services provided include; child protection team (medically directed and multidisciplinary team to assist law enforcement in the investigation of child abuse and neglect), trauma services, sexual assault victim examination (save) services, medical foster care, self sufficiency services (financial counseling and education), forensic services (circuit court 6), comprehensive community services team (services to individuals with severe mental illness), senior counseling, school based health services, intensive family services, and the exchange (a service for clients to obtain clothing and household items at no cost).