La Porte County Comprehensive Mental Health Council Inc

Community-based services: swanson center offers extensive mental health services in the community, designed specifically to help individuals of all ages improve their daily functioning by eliminating psychosocial barriers. Individual and family skills training and development services are provided in the home, school or community setting that center around improving clients self-care, daily life management, or problem-solving skills. Daily group skills training and development services are also offered for both adults and children in a structured therapeutic environment that encourages success, through improving behaviors, learning new skills, and developing a positive self worth.

Residential services: swanson center provides residential services for persons identified as having a serious mental illness. The supervised group living (sgl) program is an intensive, supervised group living facility that provides a therapeutic environment for its residents through 24-hour staff supervision and support. The sgl program promotes the development of daily living skills so that the resident may eventually function at his/her highest level of independence and self-reliance. The semi independent living program (silp) offers clustered apartment living for clients who need limited supervision in order to be maintained in the community. Both residential programs assist clients in accessing a variety of mental health services provided on-site and throughout swanson center, including medication management, case management, therapy, and group skills training and development.

Dcs services: through contracts with the indiana department of child services, swanson center provides a full continuum of home and community-based services to youth and families involved with dcs. Among the broad array of services, swanson center offers home-based casework, home-based therapy, supervised visitation, and family preservation services. Access to onsite psychiatric services, psychological evaluation, substance use treatment are also available.