Mental Health/Mental Retardation

Mental Health/Mental Retardation

Mental Retardation Services

Potter County Human Services wants to provide help for their mentally retarded clients and families by providing services not only during the critical times in one's life, but they also want the client to know that they're always there. They want to assist clients in the least disruptive approach while allowing for timely reaction to a client's needs based on professional assessment and evaluation of the problem. By offering family support services, vocational training, and community living arrangements, Potter County Human Services aim to keep their clients in the best settings possible: their homes and their communities.

	Case Management
	Family Support Services
	Adult Training/Supported Employment
	Community Residential Services
	Family Living Homes
	Other/Private Residential Services

Mental Health Services

Potter County Human Services wants to provide help with their mental health services not only during the critical times in one's life, but they also want the client to know that they're always there. They want to assist clients in the least disruptive approach while allowing for timely reaction to a client's needs based on professional assessment and evaluation of the problem.

Intensive Case Management

	Linking to appropriate mental health services (outpatient counseling, partial hospitalization programming, inpatient treatment, family based services and wraparound services).
	Assisting consumers to obtain and maintain the necessary supports to remain in the community (housing, respite, education, employment, medical care, food, recreation/leisure activities).
	Access to twenty-four hour intensive case management.
	Treatment planning, with the direct participation of the consumer and designed to meet their specific needs.
	Twenty-four hour mental health crisis intervention.

Resource Coordination

	Same services as Intensive Case Management but is less intense, less frequent contact
	Used as a step into mental health case management or a step down from Intensive Case Management

Contact Information:

To learn more about these services please call local (814) 544-7315, or toll free at (800) 800-2560. Business hours are 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, except holidays. For after-hour emergencies, please call 9-1-1

Links:

		CASSP
		Child Development Early Intervention
		Emergency Services
		Family Support
		Living Arrangements
		Rapport
		Student Assistance Program
		Vocational Training