The Affiliated Santé Group is a non-profit behavioral health and emergency response services and systems organization serving a diverse client base, primarily through public sector agencies. Our track record of innovation and growth reflects our ability to deliver diverse and highly individualized services. We have a passion for fostering recovery, serving communities and inspiring hope.

Services Offered

The Affiliated Santé Group can create customized mental health services to clients, its primary offerings fall into three categories: crisis response, community mental health outreach and psychiatric recovery.

The following overview highlights Santé's capabilities, goals and strategies in these key service areas:
Treatment and Recovery Services Offered:

Emphasize the development of communication and daily living skills;
Provide a wide range of services for individuals with a chronic mental illness, with or without the complicating factor or alcohol or substance abuse;
Medication evaluation and management;
Individual and group psychotherapy;
Co-occurring groups;
Can be effectively delivered at strategically located "wellness and recovery center," typically without charge;
Are built around enabling individuals to set their own treatment goals and methods;
Leverages the power of peer support through consumer-run wellness and recovery center;
Help individuals recognize the signs of a potential relapse, and to use pre-planned strategies to prevent that relapse.

Outpatient Mental Health Clinic (OMHC) Services
The Affiliated Santé Group Outpatient Clinics are located in Lanham and Silver Spring, MD.
Clinics offer comprehensive psychiatric services to residents in Prince Georges and Montgomery Counties, Maryland and surrounding areas.
We provide recovery-based psychiatric services through an interdisciplinary team approach.
We embrace recovery-based models. We believe our clients should be empowered to live meaningful and hopeful lives, through the process of community integration and self-determination.

Psychiatric Recovery Programs
Our psychiatric recovery services provide a multi-faceted range of services for individuals with chronic mental illness with or without the complicating problem of alcohol/substance abuse. Our emphasis is on developmmunication and daily living skills that support each persons' unique ability to live in the community, to recognize symptoms of potential relapse and to use pre-planned strategies to prevent it and enhance personal independence.

The Silver Spring Wellness and Recovery Center (SSWRC)
At SSWRC we believe that through peer support each individual is empowered to actively participate in achieving and maintaining their personal wellness and recovery goals.

Crisis Response Services Offered:

Include "hotline" telephone support for individuals and family members in crisis, mental health "first responders" to support law enforcement and other emergency personnel, critical incident stress management teams and the management and technology infrastructure to maintain all of these resources;
Operate 24/7/365 or as needed;
Are tailored to the needs of each community;
Develop close working relationships with local first responders to maximize the effectiveness of the efforts of each party;
Maintain a comprehensive database of community-based mental health and social service referral resources for the benefit of consumers and other service providers;
Offer community education and outreach services to minimize the need for crisis services as much as possible; and
Provide follow-up on crisis interventions with wrap-around services.

Seniors Outreach Services Offered:
Provide non-emergency proactive mental health educational and counseling services to senior populations;
Deliver services customized to address prioritized needs for targeted community;
Largely delivered in the home settings, but also at specified community locations.
Equip caregivers to support family members needing these services
Are typically provided without charge; and
Focuses on the elderly, people who may be reluctant or unable to seek out mental health services independently.

Fees and Payment

Senior Services - Free

Outpatient Mental Health Clinic (OMHC) Services
Payment Options:
Maryland Medicaid and Self Pay

Psychiatric Recovery Programs
Payment Options:
Maryland Federal Medical Assistance, Maryland PAC, and Self Pay

Silver Spring Wellness and Recovery Center (SSWRC)
The service is free, as are our services.

This is a nonprofit orgnization.

Services Offered To:
Adults
Teens
Children

Special Groups:
Bilingual

Payment:
Sliding Scale
Medicare
Medicaid