Community Health Needs Assessment to the services which best meet those needs. Services are designed to aid consumers in achieving their highest possible level of functioning. •
Adult Rehabilitative Services programs consist of case management, rehabilitation services, community living services, and support to consumers with intellectual disability. The goal of this community support system is to maximize each consumer’s potential for independence, improved quality of life, and optimum level of functioning
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Child & Family Services programs offer an integrated and comprehensive system of early intervention services, therapeutic services, and supports for families of children and adolescents with, or at risk of, developing Serious Emotional Disturbance (SED), Intellectual Disabilities (ID), and/or Substance Use Disorders (SUD). Staff engages families and other natural and formal supports and services to develop a family/child-driven, strength-based and solution-focused plan of services to support the child and family in meeting their goals.
The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine at Carilion Clinic employs psychiatrists and therapists who specialize in programs and services for addiction, psychiatric illness, and behavioral problems. It provides inpatient and outpatient treatment programs in Roanoke across the lifespan from children through geriatrics. Additionally, CONNECT, the emergency evaluation and referral service, is available 24 hours daily. The department also operates an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) that offers confidential counseling service to employees of participating companies to help identify and resolve personal and workplace problems. Through a variety of projects, Carilion Clinic is working to increase access to high-quality psychiatric services in the community. There is a huge challenge, nationally, to deliver adequate psychiatric care for everyone including uninsured, low-income populations. The EDs in our system, especially in Roanoke, are inundated with patients presenting with mental health and substance abuse issues. Consequently, the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine partners with Blue Ridge Behavioral Health Services (BRBH) to provide psychiatric services for its patients. This public-private coordinated effort across organizations includes same-day, walk-in services for patients who might otherwise be psychiatrically hospitalized. Furthermore, the Carilion Clinic Addiction Fellowship provides attending and trainee psychiatrists to treat adult patients with substance use disorders, in both ambulatory and residential settings. In order to care for the large number of seriously mentally ill patients presenting to Carilion Clinic’s EDs– and due to the shortage of state hospital beds in this region– the psychiatry department expanded its intensive treatment unit to 16 beds. LIPOS (local inpatient purchase of services) funds were budgeted by the state of Virginia through the Department of Behavioral Health and Disability Services to address the need for more inpatient psychiatric services in the face of a reduction in state hospital beds. LIPOS Page | 105