Mental Health Skill-Building Services
Focusing on community stability and independence
Through our Mental Health Skill-Building Services, OLA provides goal directed support services that enable individuals to achieve and maintain community stability and independence.
MHSS is...
…OLA’s home-based adult focused program providing services to adults age 18 and older, who are having difficulty maintaining community stability and independence in the most appropriate, least restrictive environment. Services are provided both within the client’s home and the community.
Goal
OLAs Mental Health Skill-Building Services offer goal directed training in the areas of daily living activities, use of community resources, medication management, health and nutrition, and the overall physical condition.
Call us: 804-789-1956
Services
OLA’s MHSB services are individualized, and may include any of the following:
- Diagnostic Assessment
- Daily Living Skills Training
- Health & Nutrition Education
- Medication Management Assistance
- social skills building
- Case Management
- Community Resource Awareness
What our clients are saying....
My counselor has taught me how to be strong, she motivates me.
MHSB Client
I have grown from being an inexperienced parent to an experienced parent. I was a mess, but now I'm better.
MHSB Client
Must meet ALL of the following:
- Have Schizophrenia (or other psychotic disorder), Major Depressive Disorder (recurrent), Bipolar I or II, or any other Axis I mental health disorder that a physician has documented specific to the identified individual within the past year.
- Require individual training in acquiring basic living skills such as symptom management, adherence to psychiatric and medication treatment plans; development and appropriate use of social skills and personal support system; personal hygiene; food preparation; or money management.
- Have a prior history of any of the following: psychiatric hospitalization; residential crisis stabilization, Intensive Community Treatment (ICT) or Program of Assertive Community Treatment (PACT) services; placement in a psychiatric residential treatment facility (RTC Level C); or Temporary Detention Order (TDO).
- Have had a prescription for anti-psychotic, mood stabilizing, or anti-depressant medications within the 12 months prior to the assessment date. If a physician or other practitioner who is authorized by his license to prescribe medications indicates that anti-psychotic, mood stabilizing, or antidepressant medications are medically contraindicated for the individual, the provider shall obtain medical records signed by the physician or other licensed prescriber detailing the contraindication.
