Guiding Lights provides Mental Health Support Services, (MHS) as a training and support program for individuals ages 18 and 55 years old with significant psychiatric functional limitations to achieve and maintain community stability and independence in the most appropriate, least restrictive environment.  Individuals must demonstrate a clinical need for the service arising from a condition due to mental, behavioral, or emotional illness that results in significant functional impairments in major life activities and affects their ability to remain stabilized in the community. Individuals eligible for this service may have a dual diagnosis of either mental illness and mental retardation or mental illness and substance abuse disorder.



Admissions Criteria: Individuals must meet at least two of the following criteria on a continuing or intermittent basis: 

1.  Have difficulty in establishing or maintaining normal interpersonal relationships to such a degree that they are at risk of hospitalization, homelessness, or isolation from social supports.

2.  Exhibit such inappropriate behavior that repeated interventions by the mental health, social services, or judicial system are necessary.

3. Exhibit difficulty in cognitive ability such that they are unable to recognize personal danger or recognize significantly inappropriate social behavior

4.  Require help in basic living skills, such as maintaining personal hygiene, preparing food and maintaining adequate nutrition, or managing finances to such a degree that health or safety is jeopardized. 

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Guiding Lights strives to partner with other community agencies to provide additional wrap around mental health services to client.   These services include but are not limited to:

• Case Management Support
• 24 hr Crisis Intervention & Support
• Medication Education and Psychiatric follow-up
• Behavior Management Training
• Conflict/ Resolution Problem Solving Skills
• Psycho-education
• Community Resource Education
• Mental Health  Diagnosis Education
• Independent Living Skills  to include money management, utilizing community    resources, nutrition, health and wellness