Site-Based Psychiatric Rehabilitation Service

Recovery is a self-determined and holistic journey that people undertake to heal and grow.

Recovery is facilitated by relationships and environments that provide hope, empowerment, choices and opportunities that promote people reaching their full potential as individuals and community members.

Skills Site-Based Psychiatric Rehabilitation Service in Philipsburg offers member-directed services based on the identified needs and desires of each individual with a focus on skills building and resource acquisition in the domains of living, learning, working, and social environments.

Individualized services are based on each participant’s stated needs and goals for his or her own life. This program includes a daily meeting where everyone can get together to discuss current events, to organize schedules and outings, and to celebrate each other’s stories of success. Groups are developed to support individuals based on the identified needs and desires of each individual.

A key element of this program is Community Connections. This service is not intended to be an end point in one’s recovery process, but instead it is a vehicle to develop self-reliance and a natural support system to replace the program. The program’s core principles include:

  • Self-direction: Individuals plan the direction and focus of the program.
  • Individualized and person centered: Each individual’s plan is developed based on his or her assessed needs. The program will develop interventions based on those that will foster success.
  • Empowering: Individuals run this program and their own lives; Staff act as guides.
  • Holistic: Staff works with the individual to address all of his or her needs, not just those focused on mental health.
  • Nonlinear: Set backs and relapses are okay. These experiences offer a learning opportunity. Staff welcome the individual, offer support, and never pass judgment.
  • Strengths-based: Staff focus on an individual’s strengths, not his or her barriers, to develop goals based on what he or she is good at and what motivates him or her.
  • Embraces peer supports: Staff help establish connections with those who know where each individual has been and where he or she can go.
  • Fosters respect: Staff respect everyone who comes in the doors. Staff’s job is not to criticize or change people; it is to embrace who each person is as an individual.
  • Encourages responsibility: People are responsible for their own lives. Staff cannot “make someone better” or force change — Change must come from within. Staff cannot be responsible for someone else’s choices, but instead offer support and encouragement as an individual makes his or her journey.
  • Hope: Staff believes everyone can learn and grow. Staff must be hopeful even when the individual is not.

This referral program is for individuals ages 18 or older with a qualifying diagnosis as outlined in Health Choices program standards; the person wants to receive services; and as a result of the mental illness, the individual has moderate to severe functional impairment that interferes with role performance in vocational, educational, and/or self-maintenance domains.

Located at 9 West Pine Street, Philipsburg, the hours of operation are nontraditional and based on the requests of the individuals served.

Two Skills vehicles are available to provide transportation to and from the program site on a daily basis, if needed, throughout the Moshannon Valley service area in Centre and Clearfield Counties. Transportation pick-up and drop-off points outside Philipsburg allow maximum participation in the program.

This program is funded through Community Care Behavioral Health.

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For more information about Skills Site-Based Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services, contact the Director of Psychiatric Rehabilitation at 814-404-6269.