Cahaba Center for Mental Health/Mental Retardation
Cahaba Center for Mental Health/Mental Retardation
Cahaba Center for Mental Health is located in Selma, Alabama and has been serving Dallas, Perry, and Wilcox counties since 1973. Cahaba Center serves individuals with mental illness and developmental disabilities.
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Services Offered
OUTPATIENT SERVICES Outpatient services (ages 5 and up) begin with an initial clinical evaluation of the individual's request for assistance. The intake evaluation presents psychological and social functioning, the individual's reported physical and medical condition, the need for additional evaluation and/or treatment, and the individual's fitness for rehabilitative services.
ADULT DAY PROGRAMS Adult Intensive Day Treatment provides highly structured services designed to bridge acute treatment and less intensive services with the goals of community living skills acquisition/enhancement, increased level of functioning, and enhanced community integration.
IN-HOME INTERVENTIONS Adult services are provided by a treatment team to serve individuals who refuse other outpatient services and/or who need additional support due to increased symptoms or transition from a more intense level of services, to defuse an immediate crisis situation, stabilize the living arrangement, and/or prevent out of home placement of the individual. Child and Adolescent services are provided by a treatment team in order to defuse an immediate crisis situation, stabilize the family unit, and prevent out of home placement of the child or adolescent who presents with a serious emotional disturbance and is at risk of out of home placement.
RESIDENTIAL PROGRAMS Residential programs include group homes for individuals with serious mental illness. These are structured programs, supervised twenty-four hours a day, seven days per week by qualified staff. The purpose of residential services is to assist individuals with serious mental illness to understand the nature of their illness and gain the social, educational, and vocational skills to move toward independence.
EARLY INTERVENTION SERVICES Early Intervention provides supports and services for infants and toddlers birth through age 2 (0 to 36 months of age) who have a medical diagnosis that can delay nor
Services Offered To: Adults Teens Children
Special Groups: Bilingual
Payment: Sliding Scale Medicaid
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