Highlands Community Services

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Center for Behavioral Health, Highlands Community Services announced the grand opening of The Annex on May 20, 2009. This facility houses the Intellectual Disabilities Program and the Infant and Toddler Connection of the Highlands Program.

Support Coordination (case management) services are designed to support individuals with ID in accessing needed medical, psychiatric, social, educational, vocational, residential and other needs essential for living in the community and in developing his or her desired lifestyle.
Day Support services are designed to build skills or supports for improvement of self-help, socialization and community integration. Supports may be provided to ensure health and safety as well. Services take place in the annex building and/or in the community. Transportation is provided as well.
Prevocational services are designed to prepare individuals for paid or unpaid employment but which are not job task-oriented. Supports provided are geared for those who are not expected to join the regular work force. Transportation is also provided.
Residential services are supports provided in the individual’s home, community or licensed or approved residence. The supports enable individuals to improve or maintain his/her health status, live at home and use the community, improve or acquire new home living skills or community skills and demonstrate safe and appropriate behavior for his/her community. Residential services include In-Home services, Congregate services (more than one person in the same home getting supports at the same time) and Sponsor Homes (adults living in individual homes with families).

The Infant and Toddler Connection of the Highlands provides early intervention services for young children (birth to age 3) with developmental disabilities in combination with service coordination for families. Early intervention services are available to all eligible infants and toddlers and their families regardless of the family’s ability to pay. The purpose and focus of the program is to provide supports and services to increase the child’s participation in family and community activities. Our program assists family members/caregivers in developing multiple methods of working with their child’s special needs as part of an Individual Family Service Plan. In keeping with the philosophy that parents are the child’s best teachers, all early intervention activities involve the parents as part of the team providing services for their child. Additional information regarding the Infant and Toddler Connection in Virginia may be accessed at www.infantva.org . Locally, referrals may be made by calling 276-619-2405.

Also new to Highlands is the:
Highlands Home Recovery Center at 802 Hillman Highway, Abingdon- A crisis stabilization program that seeks to divert people with serious mental illness from hospitalization, jail and homelessness. Using non-medical techniques, HHR
features red light therapy, instructions for bio-feedback, stress management and more-available for adult consumers with an open case in HCS.

FRIENDS AND FAMILY classes. Does life
feel like a roller coaster, up one day and down the next, because of the drug or alcohol use of someone you love? Friends and Family is a series of classes that offers education and help.The Goal of FRIENDS AND FAMILY is to help individuals who have a loved one affected by a substance abuse disorder.
These efforts can lead to a more
dignified, emotionally healthy and
productive life. Classes are ongoing...they meet one night each week for six weeks. Each class lasts an hour from 5:00 - 6:00 p.m.

Adult Body-Centered Therapy Group
"Our bodies are the center of our experience. They are the tools of our perceptions, the vessels of our feelings and the vehicle for our actions. Body psychotherapy assumes that a functional unity exists between the body and the mind and that therapeutic change occurs through direct experience of the present moment."
In this class, customers learn to engage in activities that promote overall health, wellness and body awareness. Experiences will be designed to facilitate stress relive and pain reduction through simple and easy movements. For additional information, contact the Access line at 276-628-5067.