Hopelink Behavioral Health

The community services program includes employment services and mental health skills - building services (mhss). Employment services provides support and training for clients who want to be competitively employed in the community to help them choose, get and keep jobs. Mhss provides individually tailored, community-based intensive skill building and support services to meet each client's unique needs, abilities and goals; and helps clients maintain their housing and maximize their stability.

The psychosocial rehabilitation program, also known as the recovery academy program and the community readiness support program (crsp), provides a curriculum-based day program that promotes movement out of hopelink's facility-based programming and into meaningful community alternatives such as work, volunteering and school. Co-occurring disorder services and assistance with transition to community-based activities are also offered.

Peer support services are provided by individuals who have lived experience and are successful in their recovery. Peers use that lived experience to provide emotional, affiliation, instrumental, and informational support for others in their own recovery journey. At hopelink, peers are embedded within clinical programs and in independent programs serving as paraprofessionals - utilizing their lived experience and training to work alongside treatment teams. Hopelink's mental health outpatient services provide individuals experiencing mental illness, other behavioral health conditions, or other life challenges with compassionate, personalized therapy to help make positive changes.hopelink provides several other critical community services. The coordinated specialty (csc) program is a recovery-oriented treatment program for youth and young adults with first episode psychosis. Csc offers skill teaching, case management, supported employment, supported education, family education and support, peer support and psychiatric services. The community housing program provides non-time-limited housing and support to help clients live as independently as possible. Residents live in one of the housing residences supported by hopelink.

The youth and family program supports youth and young adults with emotional or behavioral difficulties in successfully transitioning to adulthood. Family peer support services are provided by a parent or guardian, with lived experience navigating the behavioral health and mental health system for their child. Family peers utilize that experience to support other families in the community navigating the systems of care and facing similar challenges.