March 28, 2018

Psychiatric Rehabilitation Program

Psychiatric Rehabilitation Program (PRP)

Our Psychiatric Rehabilitation Program (PRP), offerour participants structured individual and group sessions that is designed to build and promote independent living skills and management of symptoms of mental illness. The goal is to assist individuals with the transition from a long period of hospitalization to successfully re-integration into the community, and to assist those individuals who are already in the community with maintaining and enhancing their skills.

Psychiatric Rehabilitation Program – Skills Training Areas

 PRP Social Skills Training

  • Interpersonal skills
  • Communication
  • Socialization
  • Recreation
  • Community re-integration

PRP Self Care Training

  • Personal hygiene
  • Nutrition
  • Planning and cooking meals
  • Managing medications
  • General health care promotion
  • Personal safety

PRP Illness Management Skills Training

  • Understand and deal with mental illness as a disease
  • Deal with symptoms and each person’s unique challenges of daily living
  • Medication education
  • How to recover your sense of self and your life in spite of having an illness

PRP Independent Living & Community Living Skills Training

  • Maintaining suitable housing
  • Utilizing community resources
  • Transportation and mobility training
  • Personal finance and budgeting
  • Applying for entitlement benefits