Sunrise Opportunities

Programs: Residential treatment programs - for people with severe and persistent mental illness. 20 adults with severe and persistent mental illnesses received round the clock, clinically supervised, personal support in a home-like and safe residential environment which included their own private bedroom and a daily treatment program tailored to their specific needs. The focus was on reducing their mental illness symptoms, and also assisting them on their road to recovery. Services were delivered in eastport residential facility (14 beds) and milbridge residence (6 beds) both facilities are dully licensed through the dhhs assisted living program and the office of mental health and substance abuse.

home support programs - support approximately 20 adults with intellectual disabilities. Individuals receive clinically supervised support services delivered in their own homes(or in small agency supported homes) designed to help recipients improve and maintain their ability to live as independently as possible. Services included primarily habilatitive training, personal assistance with activities of daily living, instrumental activities of daily living and development and personal well being. Services are offered throughout all of washington county maine.

community support programs - support approximately 50 people with intellectual disabilities with services designed to help them remain in their communities and prevent their institutionalization. Individually designed services were delivered by direct support professionals, tailored to increase each recipient's ability to successfully engage in inclusive social and community relationships and to maintain and develop skills that support health and well-being. The focus is on community inclusion, personal development and supporting areas of daily living skills in necessary. Services were delivered in the communities surrounding calais, machias and cherryfield maine.