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Mental Health
New Heights |
Homeless Outreach Team |
New Heights
New Heights is a psychosocial rehabilitation program for adults with mental illness in the Greater Danbury, CT area. New Heights offers a variety of services to meet the varied needs of each program participant in their personal recovery. We offer vocational and prevocational services, educational services, including computer training and support groups; social activities, and peer support services, including a Warmline that offers telephone support to people in the evenings and is staffed by people with mental illness. All of our programming emphasizes ownership and involvement of all people attending New Heights.
Geographic Area Served: Danbury, Bethel, Brookfield, New Milford, New Fairfield, Newtown, Ridgefield, Redding, Sherman, Bridgewater, and Roxbury.
Eligibility: Members must be diagnosed with a mental illness, live in one of the towns listed above, and be receiving services from the Department of Mental Health & Addiction Services.
Case Management Program
The Case Management Program provides critical case management services that engage clients with psychiatric disabilities, assess their needs for services and resources, develop a collaborative plan to achieve goals, link them to the diverse agencies that offer the services, coordinate and monitor the ongoing service provision to assure continuity, and advocate on behalf of the client when needs change or are not being met. Some of the services and resources obtained include financial entitlements, housing, clinical/medical treatment, employment, education, and rehabilitative services essential to optimal quality of life and independence in the community.
Homeless Outreach Team
"Do not forget to entertain strangers for by doing so some people have entertained angels without knowing." Hebrews 13:2
MISSION STATEMENT OF DIVISION: The community programs of Catholic Charities of Fairfield County, Inc., provide advocacy and human services to children, teens and adults to meet their basic physical and mental health needs in order to improve their ability to function independently and integrate into their communities.
The Homeless Outreach Team provides outreach to and assessment of homeless adults in order to identify individuals with a psychiatric disability and engage them in Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS) funded programs. Outreach includes onsite work at shelters, soup kitchens and other locations such as the city street where homeless people may be found. In addition to DMHAS services, referrals may be made to other community providers such as Welfare / entitlement agencies, housing, food and clothing banks, employment / vocational training, and medical treatment.
HOT staff also serves as a liason and educational resource to social service providers about homeless and DMHAS services and the needs of homeless clients. The Homeless Outreach Team conists of outreach case managers who provide: Identification, Outreach, Engagement, Assessment, Planning, Support, Referral, Follow-up, Monitoring, Advocacy to homeless individuals and those at risk of homelessness who are in need of a variety of services.
The Homeless Outreach Team can help you obtain: Food, Shelter, Clothing, Social Security, Medical Services, Financial Assistance, Mental Health Treatment, Substance Abuse Treatment. The Homeless Outreach Team and Case Management Program are Administered by Catholic Charities of Fairfield County, Inc. and the Homeless Outreach Team is funded by the CT State Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services and the Federal PATH Programs.
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