The Mental Health Center of Greater

Vocational Services - Sheltered Workshop, Client-Run Businesses, and Integrated Employee Placement and Support (IPS):Vocational Services IPS is an evidence-based model that assists clients in finding meaningful, integrated, and competitive employment in the community. The model emphasizes job development, rapid job search, time-unlimited follow-along supports, client preferences, and zero-exclusion criteria. Vocational specialists work side-by-side with clients in the community to assist them in reaching their job goals, to assist in managing work incentives, and to develop job leads utilizing face-to-face job development with competitive employers. (Continued on Schedule O)IPS vocational specialists also work collaboratively with vocational rehabilitation for clients who would choose to either return to school, or who would require other types of support not within the IPS model. The IPS team serves all CSS and medication services clients at the Center. Clients are screened for and referred to IPS directly from intake or at any time during treatment, including self-referral. Amongst participants in IPS, there is a 70% employment rate on average, as compared to the national average employment rate of individuals with SMI/SPMI at 25%.

MHCGM continues to maintain numerous other operations that serve the general wellbeing and health of its community. These services include elder-care and emergency services, other vocational services, non-eligible, assertive community treatment (ACT) teams, community residences and support services, housing outreach programs, In-Shape Health Choices and Healthy Changes programs, and other assorted health and wellbeing services. MHCGM also operates the Cypress Center, a 16-bed acute psychiatric residential treatment program that serves as one of the three remaining Designated Receiving Facilities for adults in New Hampshire. MHCGM's Division of Emergency Services, Crisis Stabilization & Interim Care (ES) provided 3,646 crisis evaluations and emergency interventions helping 1,212 patients at the Emergency Department of two community hospitals: the Elliott Hospital and Catholic Medical Center. Rapid response made 3,598 Community Deployments serving 2,656 patients. A total of 3,868 patients were helped across both programs. ES operates 24 hours per day, 7 days a week, and offers a daytime walk-in center along with follow-up crisis stabilization services and interim outpatient care. For persons experiencing crisis in the community, MHCGM offers the Rapid Response/Mobile Crisis Response Team, a program designed to provide a quick and seamless response through the deployment of mental health clinicians and peer support and recovery coaches. MHCGM operates three residential programs with a capacity for 56 residents. MHCGM also has a long-standing contract with the New Hampshire Bureau of Drug and Alcohol Services to provide treatment to adolescents and young adults who are at risk of becoming or who are already addicted to substances.