What is Mental Health Skill-building?

Mental Health Skill-building is designed to train individuals in functional skills and appropriate behaviors related to the individual's health and safety, activities of daily living, and use of community resources, assistance with medication management and monitoring health, nutrition and physical condition.

Skill-building is provided in the individual's home and/or in
the community for as much as three hours daily and as often
as 5-6 days each week.

Skill-building is intended to encourage independence, minimalize the need for crisis services and/or hospitalization, reduce the likelihood of homelessness or encounters with the legal system, and promote feelings of self worth.

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Eligibility for Mental Health Skill-Building

> Medicaid Recipients age 18 or older, AND
> Diagnosed with a serious mental illness such as schizophrenia, Major Depression, Bipolar Disorder, etc, AND
> Have a History of inpatient residential psychiatric hopitalization, inpatient or outpatient crisis stabilization, residential treatment, or ECO/TDO evaluations, AND
> Have been prescribed psychotropic medication within the past twelve months, AND
> Need individualized training in acquiring skills needed for daily functioning, use of community resources, assistance with medication management, appropriate behaviors and social interactions, and monitoring of physical and mental health.

Where are Mental Health Skill-building services offered?

Counseling Associates of the Highlands is proudly serving the following areas of Virginia:

City of Covington
Alleghany County
Craig County
Botetourt County
Roanoke County