Wabash Valley Hospital

The Community Support Program is a psychosocial rehabilitation program designed to meet the needs of individuals 18 or older who have a serious mental illness. Individuals may participate in one or more of the following services.

Supervised Group Living (Group Home)
The Supervised Group Living Program consists a Lafayette residence for individuals who are in need of a supportive living environment as a part of a move toward greater independence. Residents are expected to become involved in the program and/or manage with less supervision. While at the group home, residents are taught skills such as cooking, budgeting, and the use of community resources.

Community Living Program
This program consists of:

1. Outpatient Case Management is for individuals who need significant assistance in obtaining mental health and community services and maintaining basic living skills. These individuals live in apartments.
2. Outpatient Clinical Case Management is for individuals who need one-to-one or group supportive counseling in order to cope with their mental illness and/or the problems of daily living.

Clubhouse
The Clubhouse is a group-oriented, structured treatment program that focuses on the members' strength, shared responsibilities, and work/tasks in a normal work-like setting in order to learn how to cope with the symptoms and disabling effects of one's mental illness.

Day Treatment
Day Treatment is a group-oriented, structured treatment program which meets several hours a day, several times a week. Day Treatment uses the principles of group psychotherapy and is designed to meet with the needs of individuals who do not need hospitalization, but need more than outpatient treatment. Day Treatment has two tracks:

1. Intensive Outpatient Program serves as a short-term crisis stabilization program. It is used clinically to avert hospitalization or to offer transitional treatment back into the community that can decrease the length of stay on an inpatient unit.
2. Supportive Treatment serves as a longer term treatment program. It is used to maintain or increase the level of independent functioning.

Medication Services
Medication prescribed by a psychiatrist to treat the symptoms of one's mental illness are available through appointments with a psychiatrists. In addition, there is a Proloxin-Haldol Clinic for individuals who need injectable medications.

Valley Enterprises
Valley Enterprises is an employment services program funded through the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration Division of Disability, Aging and Rehabilitative Services to assist individuals with a serious mental illness to choose, find, and succeed with paid employment.

Family Education and Support
The Family Education and Support Program is a free, weekly, family support group of Wabash Valley Hospital, which is open to family members of all Wabash Valley Hospital consumers. Information is also shared about the Alliance for Mentally Ill Support Group, Journey of Hope classes, local mental health associations, and other local resources.