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SD DMH - Adult Services

Adults with Severe and Persistent Mental Illness (SPMI) living in community settings have a variety of service needs. Community mental health centers serve as the focal point for services purchased by the Division of Mental Health for adults with SPMI.

NOTE: For a contact list of Community Mental Health Centers, go to: http://www.state.sd.us/dhs/dmh/cmhclist.htm.

SPMI Services Include:

Residential/Transitional Services: Short term intensive transitional services and long term facility based treatment programs designed to prevent hospitalization or ease transition from an inpatient facility to independent or supported living environments.

Programs of Assertive Community Treatment (IMPACT): Intensive services to individuals with extensive histories of hospitalizations, and individuals needing very intensive services to remain in the community.

Continuous Assistance, Rehabilitation and Education (CARE) Program: Treatment, rehabilitation, and support services aimed at helping the SPMI population live successfully in the community.

Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness (PATH) Program: PATH funds community-based outreach, mental health, substance abuse, case management, and other support services, as well as a limited set of housing needs.

Crisis Intervention. An immediate therapeutic response available 24 hours a day which, depending on client's needs, involves direct telephone or face-to-face contact with clients exhibiting acute psychiatric symptoms and/or inappropriate behavior, their families, and other collaterals to alleviate the problems which, if untreated, present an immediate threat to the client or others.

Outpatient Services: Outpatient services provide nonresidential diagnostic and treatment services that are goal oriented, include an individualized treatment plan, and are provided by staff trained and experienced in mental health. Services shall be designed to assure movement toward a measurable treatment goal(s).

Source:

http://www.state.sd.us/dhs/dmh/adult.htm

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