Trinity Support Services provides Psychosocial Rehabilitation at our Martinsville location. This program provides clients with the opportunity to engage in group activities, led by qualified staff, designed to develop positive social skills, build relationships and engage in psycho-education groups aimed at decreasing mental health symptoms and improving engagement in meaningful daily activities.
Trinity's PSR program also provides our clients with the opportunity to engage in group recreational activities in the community. Clients assist in the daily activities of running the program which provides training in independent living skills and organization.
Trinity's PSR program focuses on:
* Interpersonal relationship skills
* Building a positive social network
* Psycho-education related to managing mental illness
* Maintaining personal health and safety
* Household maintenance
* Budgeting and money management
* Nutrition
* Meal preparation
* Accessing community resources
* Developing coping skills
Eligibility Criteria for Participation in PSR
Individuals must demonstrate a clinical need for services arising from a condition due to mental, behavioral, or emotional illness, which results in significant functional impairment in major life activities.
Services are provided to individuals:
i. who without these services would be unable to remain in the community OR
ii. who meet at least two of the following criteria on a continuing or intermittent basis:
a. 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;
b. 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;
c. Exhibit such inappropriate behavior that repeated interventions by the mental health, social services, or judicial system are necessary; or
d. Exhibit difficulty in cognitive ability such that they are unable to recognize personal danger or significantly inappropriate social behavior.
To receive Psychosocial Rehabilitative services, the individual must also meet one of the following criteria listed below. The individual must:
i. Have experienced long-term or repeated psychiatric hospitalization; or
ii. Experience difficulty in activities of daily living and interpersonal skills; or
iii. Have a limited or nonexistent support system; or
iv. Are unable to function in the community without intensive intervention; or
v. Require long-term services to be maintained in the community