Mental Health Skill Building Services, York

Mental Health Skill-Building Services (MHSS) at Colonial Behavioral Health (CBH) is goal directed training to enable individuals with significant functional limitations to achieve and maintain community stability and independence in the most appropriate, least restrictive environment. The treatment focus is training individuals in independent living skills such as maintaining personal hygiene, preparing food, maintaining adequate nutrition, managing finances, medication management, and monitoring health, nutrition and physical conditioning. 

To be eligible for services, the individual must:

•     Have a serious behavioral health disorder;
•     Require individualized training to acquire basic living skills, which could include symptom management, adherence to medication regimen, development and appropriate use of social skills and personal support system, personal hygiene, food preparation or money management;
•     Have a history including psychiatric hospitalization, residential crisis stabilization, Intensive Community Treatment (ICT) or Program of Assertive Community Treatment (PACT), placement in a psychiatric residential facility or Temporary Detention Order; and
•     Have a prescription for antipsychotic, mood stabilizing or antidepressant medications within the 12 months prior to assessment.

Individuals eligible for this service may have a dual diagnosis of behavior health and developmental disability or behavioral health and substance use disorder.  If an individual has co-occurring behaviora health and substance use disorders, integrated treatment for the substance use condition will be used to positively impact the behavioral health condition. The MHSS brochure is available on the website.