FoundMinds wants to build a community for those consumers who find themselves not severe enough to warrant placement in care homes or the homes are not designed for independence and sustainability for the client. By developing a well-rounded resourceful reintegration program available to support homeless ex-offenders and veterans who are mental health consumers in mastering the complexities of reintegration along with enriching activities our program will encourage self-sufficiency and sustainability. A proposed collaboration and partnership with CommonGround (COMMON GROUND is an international leader in the development of solutions to homelessness) FoundMinds will provide supportive permanent housing with social services for female homeless ex-offenders and female veterans with mental disabilities by 2011 and be able to offer the same services to males by the end of 2013.
Supportive housing combines affordable accommodations with services like mental health and substance abuse counseling, job training and placement, community activities, and help with life skills like cooking and money management. Becoming productive members of their communities has been a national wide initiative for the mental health community. Collaborating with Georgia Mental Health programs and Peer Support groups FoundMinds proposes to implement a reintegration program with the capacity to address the needs of the clients (mental health consumers) by raising awareness of the need for a specialized structure for successful reintegration back to their respective communities, home, and workplace.
Posted By: Maria Thomas
Wednesday, December 24th 2008 at 4:42PM
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