Our Services
Energy Center Services Provides a Comprehensive Crisis Stabilization Service that includes Mobile Crisis Response teams, partnering with Virginia’s 988 hotline and Community-Based Stabilization Services. We also provide long term supports through our Mental Health Skill Building program and Mental Health Day Support through The Energy Center.
The Energy Center is a Psychosocial Rehabilitation program that consists of individualized and group activities designed to:
educate individuals with mental, behavioral or emotional illness about mental illness
educate individuals about appropriate treatment to avoid complications and relapse
provide opportunities to learn and use independent living skills
enhance the social and interpersonal skills within a supportive and normalized program structure and environment.
Areas of Focus:
Daily living skills
Interpersonal skills
Rehabilitative skills
Independent living skills
Program Hours:
8 am to 3 pm, Monday through Friday
Service Limits:
Adults ages 18-64
Services and schedules are tailored to meet the needs of the individual between program hours.
Eligible Criteria:
Individuals qualifying for this service must demonstrate a clinical necessity for the service arising from a mental, behavioral, or emotional illness that results in significant functional impairments in major life activities.
A. Individuals must meet two of the following criteria on a continuing or intermittent basis:
1) Experience difficulty in establishing or maintaining normal interpersonal relationships to such a degree that they are at risk of psychiatric hospitalization, homelessness, or isolation from social supports;
2) Experience difficulty in activities of daily living, such as maintaining personal hygiene, preparing food and maintaining adequate nutrition, or managing finances to such a degree that health or safety is jeopardized;
3) Exhibit such inappropriate behavior that repeated interventions documented by the mental health, social services, or judicial system are or have been necessary; or
4) Exhibit difficulty in cognitive ability such that they are unable to recognize personal danger or significantly inappropriate social behavior. “Cognitive” is defined as the individual’s ability to process information, problem-solve and consider alternatives, it does not refer to an individual with an intellectual or other developmental disability.
B. The individual must meet one of the following criteria:
1) Have experienced long-term or repeated psychiatric hospitalizations; or
2) Experience difficulty in activities of daily living and interpersonal skills; or
3) Have a limited or non-existent support system; or
4) Be unable to function in the community without intensive intervention; or
5) Require long-term services to be maintained in the community.
Comprehensive Crisis Stabilization Services include:
Mobile Crisis Response and Community Stabilization services through suicide prevention, crisis interventions, independent living skills training, assistance with medication management, monitoring concerns with overall health, nutrition education/training, and utilizing resources training to assist the client with stability.
1. Mobile Crisis Response Teams
This service consists of a 24/7 rapid response team that provides assessment and early intervention for individuals experiencing a mental health crisis or SUD crisis dispatched through the Regional Crisis Call Center/988. The Regional crisis call center is a 24/7 clinically staffed hub/crisis call center that provides crisis intervention capabilities and coordination to providers. Mobile crisis teams are deployed in real-time, 24 hours a day, to the location of the individual experiencing a behavioral health crisis. The purpose of this service includes prevention of acute exacerbation of symptoms, prevention of harm to the individual or others, provision of quality intervention in the least restrictive setting, and development of an immediate plan to maintain safety in order to prevent the need for a higher level of care. Our rapid responders provide on-scene evaluation, intervention, and connection to follow-up resources. Mobile crisis teams are available to reach any person in the service area in his or her home, workplace, or any other community-based location of the individual in crisis in a timely manner.
2. Community-based Crisis Stabilization
This service will assist the client in averting hospitalization or rehospitalization; provide normative environments with a high assurance of safety and security for crisis intervention; stabilize individuals in crisis; and mobilize the resources of the community support system, family members, and others for ongoing rehabilitation and recovery. Community Stabilization program services provide short-term assessment, crisis intervention after mobile crisis, care coordination, training, and support to enable individuals with significant psychiatric functional limitations to achieve and maintain community stability and independence in the most appropriate, least restrictive environment. Services are provided to clients 18 years and older living independently, because they are focused on assisting clients to live independently.
Mental Health Skill-Building Services (MHSS) Include:
Goal directed training and supports to enable restoration of an individual to the highest level of baseline functioning and achieve and maintain community stability and independence in the most appropriate, least restrictive environment. MHSS services will provide face to face activities, instruction, interventions, and goal directed trainings that are designed to restore functioning and that are defined in the ISP. MHSS will include goal directed training in the following areas: (i) functional skills and appropriate behavior related to the individual’s health and safety; instrumental activities of daily living, and use of community resources; (ii) assistance with medication management; and (iii) monitoring health, nutrition, and physical condition with goals towards self-monitoring and self-regulation of all of these activities.
MHSS services also include the following components:
·Providing opportunities to enhance recovery plans that include but are not limited to:
o Daily living activities and trainings on personal care/hygiene to restore and regain functional skills and appropriate behavior related to health and safety; and,
o Skills training and reinforcement on the use of available community resources, such as public transportation to improve daily living and community integration skills and independent use of community resources, etc.
· Recovery and symptom management activities that include but are not limited to:
o Condition specific education and training and reinforcement of symptom identification designed to increase he individual’s ability to recognize and respond to symptoms; and
o Goal directed and individualized stress management and coping skills training to increase the individual’s continued adjustment to management of mental illness; and
o Training and coaching to facilitate improved communication, problems solving and appropriate coping skills, etc.
· Assistance with medication management.
· Conducting targeted exercises and coaching to restore and individual’s ability to monitor and regulate their health, nutrition, and physical condition that includes but is not limited to:
o Self-assessment exercises and recovery coaching that builds self-awareness of symptoms and how to identify and monitor symptoms; and
o Coaching and training on maintaining adherence to recommended medical care such as scheduling and keeping medical appointments, etc.
Fees:
Approved Medicaid MCO Funding