COMPREHEND INC REGIONAL MENTAL HEALTH-MENTAL RETARDATION BOARD IN
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Mission Statement
Comprehends mission is to enhance the well-being of individuals, families, and communities by advocating for and providing behavioral healthcare services in a welcoming and caring environment.
About This Cause
Established in 1968, Comprehend, Inc. is a non-profit organization that serves as our region's community mental health center. We provide services across the lifespan, beginning at birth in the areas of behavioral health, substance abuse, and intellectual disabilities. We offer robust services in the areas of Addiction, Crisis Services, Community Support, Children, Adult, Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities, and Education. These programs are broken down below: Addiction: DUI education; Individual Therapy; Intensive Outpatient Treatment; Peer Support; and Case Management for adults and children. Children's Services: Adolescent and Child Outpatient Therapy; School-Based therapy; First Steps programming from birth to 3 years old to assist with evaluation and treatment for children who have developmental issues; Family Peer Support; Case Management; Community Support which allows us to work individually with children on skill development out in community settings; and our Foster Grandparent Program which places stipend volunteers in classrooms throughout our five-county region. Adult Clinical Services: Batterer's Intervention; Guardianship and Psychological Evaluations; Assertive Community Treatment; Families in Transition for divorce education; case management; and peer support. Community Support: Adult case management; programs to help eliminate the practice of inappropriately placing persons with mental illness intellectual disability and related conditions in certified nursing facilities; supported employment to assist those with mental illness find competitive employment; and a Life Connections program that provides services designed to assist individuals with severe mental illness to facilitate their daily living skills and overall functioning. Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities (IDD) Services: Residential Support, which provides support to IDD individuals that may not have families or guardians who can care for them on a daily basis; Adult Foster Care Program- contracts with individuals who care for IDD individuals in their homes; Adult Day training is a goal-oriented program designed to provide services in the areas of self-care, adult education, communication, social integration, health maintenance, job readiness and individual rights. We offer service sights for the individuals in that IDD program. Those service sights are a bakery and a thrift store, both which allow them to learn retail and customer service skills. In our IDD program, we also offer Comptran, a Medicaid billable transportation system for those qualifying clients who attend Comprehend's Adult Day Training and Life Connections Programs. Regional Prevention Center: Education that seeks to empower communities to prevent substance abuse by fostering an environment that promotes, nurtures, and sustains healthy choices, thereby influencing and changing the norms of behavior around substance abuse; Prevention Strategies and the Strategic Prevention Framework by using comprehensive programs that are designed to use the six major strategies developed by the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention: 1. Information 2. Education 3. Alternatives 4. Environmental Strategies 5. Community-Based Process 6. Problem Identification and Referral; S.T.O.P. Youth Coalition is a drug prevention youth coalition comprised of 3-5 students from each high school in the region that are committed to substance-free living and the prevention of alcohol, tobacco, and other drug abuse. Our staff provide technical assistance to the coalition as they plan and implement prevention projects in their schools and communities; Parent Education is another type of education provided through our Regional Prevention Center that offers an evidence based curriculum that seeks to give parents the skills that they need to help reduce their children's risk for using alcohol and other drugs, engaging in delinquent acts and developing symptoms of depression; Families in Transition is a 6 hour court mandated educational program for divorcing parents with children between the ages of birth and 17 years old; Zero Tolerance is a program for individuals who are court-mandated to receive substance abuse prevention education due to legal charges related to alcohol; Consultation services are also offered by our staff to various community coalitions, community groups, schools and organizations to promote the prevention of substance abuse and related consequences; The RPC Resource Library has updated and expanded its resource library with current curricula, books, brochures, and media information related to substance abuse prevention, intervention and treatment; recovery and addition; mental health; violence and parenting. Pamphlets and posters are available for free. Other materials are available for loan. Our organization always has a qualified mental health professional on call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year to respond to behavioral health emergencies. We respond to various locales in the community such as jails, emergency rooms, ICUs, doctor's offices, and community partner agencies to address urgent and emergent behavioral health crisis.