- To enhance and maximize the consumer’s ability to function in community settings
- To decrease the frequency and duration of hospitalization.
Consumers attending The Job Site can expect to:
- Learn 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
Individuals served in this program receive rehabilitation and support services to develop and maximize the skills needed to successfully live in this community. Day Rehabilitation is a facility based program for persons disabled by severe and persistent mental illness. The program shall provide pre-vocational services, planned socialization and skills training, community living skills and daily living skills training, and recreation activities focused on identified rehabilitation needs. Prevocational services include services designed to rehabilitate and develop the general skills and behaviors needed to prepare the consumer to be employed and/or engage in other related substantial gainful activity (the program does not provide assistance in obtaining permanent competitive employment positions for consumers). The program provides consumer skills development for self administration of medication, as well as recognition of signs of relapse and control of symptoms.
