Kirkwood
House: R
Way’s Psychiatric Residential Rehabilitation program
R Way's Kirkwood
House is a 12 bed residential facility, staffed by 24 hour
awake staff. There residents
learn (or relearn) residential skills such as
cooking, shopping, cleaning,
budgeting, and doing laundry. Staff help
residents develop their personal,
daily and community living skills.
Medication management is a
important component of the program.
There is a mock apartment on-site
where residents live before they move into
the community.
The desired outcomes
of the Psychiatric Residential Rehabilitation program are:
- To increase the consumer’s functioning so that she/he can
eventually live successfully in the residential setting of her/his
choice, capabilities and resources
- To decrease the frequency and duration of hospitalization.
Consumers
living at Kirkwood house can expect to:
- Live in a safe, challenging, supervised environment
- Learn daily and community living skills necessary for independent
living
- Develop skills to manage their medication regime and illness
- Decrease necessity, frequency and of hospitalization
- Learn social skills, develop relationships, learn
to work as a team
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The Psychiatric Residential Rehabilitation
program provides psychosocial rehabilitation and skill acquisition in community
living skills, daily living skills, self- medication management, and other
related psychiatric rehabilitation services as needed to meet individual
consumer needs. Psychiatric Residential Rehabilitation is a facility-bases,
no hospital or nursing facility program for persons disable by severe and
persistent mental illness, who are unable to reside in a less restrictive
residential setting. These facilities are integrated into the community,
and ever effort is made for these residence to approximate other homes in
their neighborhood.
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