Purpose
Promoting Independent / Semi Independent living. The RU2/3 unit will be an open and integrated unit. It will provide a full and comprehensive service to those individuals experiencing a severe and persistent mental illness, irrespective of age, with a focus on primary care, wellness planning, skill building, placement and follow up. This is truly a person-centered approach that not only values an individual's choice but also believes in their ability to make changes.
Interventions will aim to identify and mobilize internal resources through increased awareness and autonomy. Through the shared responsibility of staff and the individual a commitment is made to develop essential life skills, strategies and supports to ensure a successful discharge. The process is an intensive and time consuming one involving an engagement period to build the necessary therapeutic relationship that builds hope and readiness towards a personalized recovery goal.
Process
- Hope building environment that supports a focus on individual strengths
- Personalized Wellness Plans
- Graded Skill Building focus on rehabilitation/replication
- Integrated Peer Support role to engage, advocate and promote awareness of Recovery
- Individual and Group Work to include core and choice recovery modules and RAI indicators
- Opportunities to promote social inclusion
- Role Development to restore a sense of achievement
- Exploring community supports and vocational opportunities as indicated in patients wellness plans
- Reconnect with family and community supports
- Capacity building to aid placement, transition and relapse prevention
- Longer term follow up and Comprehensive discharge planning
Philosophy
A recovery focus recognizes choice and capacity through an integrated language of wellness/wholeness. Recovery recognizes choice, strengths, self-determination, trust and hope. In this setting mental health is seen more in terms of an individual's journey to grow beyond the stigma of limits and labels with a renewed sense of self.
Practice
- Our team approach will be Transdisciplinary, meaning that all disciplines, as appropriate and pending on the individuals needs will be involved in the individuals care
- Primary care
- Ongoing assessment and stabilization
- Patient centered practice
- Consumer driven
- Solution based therapy
- Social learning / inclusion
- Wellness plans
- Behavioral approaches
- Psychosocial Rehabilitation
- Least restrictive / homelike environment
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