Adapt Services
Community Support
Clinic Services
Emergency and Crisis Services
Residential Services
Transitional Living
Day Programs
Recovery is a process by which individuals recover self-esteem, dreams, pride, choice, dignity and meaning. At Adapt, recovery is about treating the whole person, building on strengths, and instilling hope and healing to function at an optimal level, thereby enabling individuals to take responsibility for their lives.
| Recovery refers to the ways in which a person with a mental illness and/or addiction experiences and manages his or her disorder in the process of maintaining and/or reclaiming his or her life in the community. Recovery does not necessarily mean cure or elimination of the effects of the illness/addiction, and may mean living with the effects of medications or accommodations required to function to the person's full potential. |
| Recovery-oriented care is what psychiatric and addiction treatment and rehabilitation practitioners offer in support of the person's recovery. A recovery-oriented system of care identifies and builds on each person's assets, strengths and areas of health and competence to support the person in achieving a sense of mastery over mental illness and/or addiction while maintaining or regaining his or her life and a meaningful, constructive sense of membership in the broader community. Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, Practice Guidelines for Recovery-Oriented Behavioural Health Care, 2006 |
Adapt has adopted key principles to guide the recovery of consumers:
- Consumers have the capacity to learn and grow.
- Consumers are treated with respect and dignity. No one is labeled or discriminated against.
- Consumers have the right to choose and direct their own affairs.
- Adapt assessments and services are unique to the individual and build on the strengths of each consumer. The type, intensity and frequency of services depend on the individual needs of consumers.
- Adapt works in partnership with consumers, families and support networks.
Psychiatric treatment and interventions are available to persons with severe mental illnesses including:
- Schizophrenia Disorders
- Delusional Disorders
- Bipolar Disorders
- Major Depressive Disorders
- Anxiety Disorders
- Co-occurring mental illness/substance abuse disorders
Adapt delivers services in the community where consumers choose to live. This may be in their own apartment, with family, or in a residential care facility or a homeless shelter.
Adapt provides services specifically targeted for various age groups ---- from young persons to geriatric.
Services may include:
- Community Support - help for consumers in developing and/or maintaining their housing, employment and natural support systems.
- Clinic Services - psychiatric evaluation and treatment via clinic, telemedicine and mobile delivery systems. Emphases are on psychiatric evaluation and medication maintenance within a treatment and rehabilitation plan, and on assertive community treatment for consumers with multiple psychiatric hospitalizations.
- Emergency and Crisis Services - crisis intervention through telephonic, mobile and clinic services, with the goals being immediate crisis resolution, deflection from hospitalization, linkage with needed resources and maintenance of current community placement.
- Residential Services - support for consumers with a range of needs, including 24 hour supervised group homes focusing on skill acquisition, therapeutic treatment for consumers with co-occurring mental illness and substance abuse disorders, and nursing home programs for consumers in need of intensive services.
- Transitional Living - support for consumers who live independently as well as consumers in supervised transitional housing, focusing on life skill acquisition and recovery support services.
- Day Programs - psychosocial rehabilitation seeking to empower, support and enhance consumers' independent living skills, natural support development, vocational support, leisure and recreation and community integration.