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MH Crisis Intervention and Assessment Services
Emergency Services is available 24 hours a day,
seven days a week, for persons in crisis or experiencing
a mental health emergency. It offers crisis intervention
and stabilization, and evaluation for referrals to crisis
care facilities, emergency shelters, and hospitals. The
telephone number for Emergency Services is 703-573-5679,
the Emergency Services TTY number is 703-207-7737.
Mobile Crisis Unit responds to requests from Police,
Fire and Rescue, and other agencies to provide on-site
intervention, screening and referrals to hospitals and
crisis care facilities. It also offers stress debriefings
for police, fire and rescue, and hospital personnel involved
in traumatic events, as well as crisis intervention to
disaster victims and their families.
Entry & Referral Services are the initial
contact point for mental health assessments and resources,
where information and referral to appropriate services
are provided, as well as the scheduling for initial evaluations
for all Outpatient and Case Management Services.
MH Forensic Services
Forensic Services Unit is staffed by a team of
clinicians who are deployed to the Fairfax County Adult
Detention Center. These staff provide a range of
assessment, counseling, and treatment services to individuals
who are incarcerated or face criminal charges before the
Fairfax County courts. Forensic Services are provided
by three teams: The Crisis Intervention Team
provides assessment, diagnosis, and management of suicidal
and/or mentally disordered offenders. The Community
Corrections Team provides mental health services
to offenders selected to participate in prerelease transitional
programming. The Forensic Evaluation Team
conducts court-ordered evaluations for indigent clients
who are either incarcerated or released to the community.
MH Outpatient Services
These programs provide assessment and treatment for children
and adults who are not in need of emergency intervention.
The services for adults include individual, couples, family
and group therapy, medication management and targeted
outreach/support programs for persons with mental illness.
The services for children and youth include individual,
family, group therapy, play therapy, child guidance, parenting
skills, and medication management. Consultation
and assessment concerning issues of abuse, neglect, and
criminal actions are offered to the Court system.
Discharge planning services are provided to children and
youth returning to the community from hospitals.
Specialized Programs are offered to persons with
additional special needs; such as those who are deaf or
hard of hearing, have brain injury or HIV, persons with
coexisting alcohol, drug, or mental retardation concerns,
or home-bound elderly. Multi-cultural services for
individuals are also offered.
MH Community Support Programs
Community Support Programs: The Community
Support Programs provide a range of integrated treatment,
case management, medications services, hospital discharge
planning, outreach and family education and support to
adults with serious and persistent mental illness and
have a history of psychiatric hospitalizations.
Many of these consumers present co-occurring alcohol and
drug abuse, mental retardation, or neurological impairments.
Specialized support for Comprehensive Services Act
for Children: The Mental Health Resource Team
provides liaison, assessment and case management support
for children, youth, and families who are not receiving
treatment services from the CSB. Many of the families
are involved with other agencies, and the Resource Specialist
participates in the process of the Child Specific Team.
Team members, in cooperation with other agency representatives,
provide support to families seeking placement and treatment
services as well as discharge planning for those returning
from hospitals and residential placements.
MH Day Support Services
These programs provide intensive treatment, vocational
support or psychiatric rehabilitation services for persons
with serious mental illness or emotional disturbance who
require continuous support to live independently in the
community. These services include:
- Adolescent Day Treatment Program provides
intensive treatment, education and family intervention
for emotionally disturbed youth to prevent hospitalization
or a placement outside of their homes. It also
assists adolescents and their families in the transition
from psychiatric hospitalization to the community.
- Adult Day Treatment Program provides short-term,
intensive, highly structured treatment to persons 18
years and above at-risk of being hospitalized or in
the process of being discharged from a hospital.
- Psychosocial Rehabilitation Program provides
social and interpersonal skills training, family support,
and vocational and educational opportunities for persons
who require continuous support to function independently
in the community.
- Vocational Services provides an array of employment
options for consumers who cannot, without assistance,
readily integrate into the workplace.
MH Residential Treatment Programs
Residential treatment programs are 24-hour residential
treatment programs for children and adults whose mental
health disabilities prevent them from functioning independently
in the community. The duration and level of intensity
varies to meet the individual needs.
For children and adolescents, the range of services include:
- My Friend's Place, a nine- to twelve-month
placement for children ages six through twelve;
- Alternative House, a two-week shelter which
provides crisis intervention and stabilization services
to runaways and other troubled teenagers;
- Sojourn House, a nine-to-twelve-month
treatment program for adolescent girls.
For adults, the following programs are provided:
- Crisis Care facilities, short-term psychiatric
stabilization programs which provide an alternative
to hospitalization;
- Women's Shelter, shelter and counseling services
for physically abused women and their children;
- Transitional Residential Programs, short-term
programs for adults returning to the community from
psychiatric hospitalizations;
- Permanent Group Homes, supervised residences
for persons who cannot live independently in the community;
- Domiciliary Care, individualized residential
services for consumers with special needs.
MH Residential Support Programs
Residential Support programs programs provide services
to adults who suffer from severe mental illness and/or
substance abuse problems and require support to live independently
in the community. The duration and intensity of
services vary to meet the individual needs. In general,
these programs offer a less intensive level of supervision
than the ones described above and require from the residents
some independent living skills. Also, most of the
programs in this category offer permanent placements.
In the Supervised Apartment Programs , the services are
provided to residents living in apartments leased or owned
by the County. In the Supported Living Programs,
the services are provided to consumer living in their
own apartments. The Homeless Services Programs offer
mental health intervention to homeless persons and families.
MH Prevention and Early Intervention
These programs aim to reduce the need for more intensive
mental health treatment through lectures and workshops
on mental health issues to the general public and professionals,
consultation to community groups on the prevention and
early management of mental illness, and other services,
such as:
- ADAPT: Anger & Domestic Prevention and Treatment
provides assistance in finding alternatives
to violence through verbal resolution of conflicts and
constructive (non-violent) expression of feelings;
- The Grief Crisis Program provides services
to individuals experiencing a tragic loss of a significant
person in their lives;
- VAN (Victim Assistance Network) provides 24-hour,
seven-days-a-week crisis intervention, counseling and
supportive services to adult and children victims of
sexual assault and domestic violence.
MH Inpatient Services
An inpatient program at the Mount Vernon Hospital's Psychiatric
Unit provides acute/intensive services through short-term
inpatient care and rapid return to community living for
acutely and severely ill individuals.
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