Mental Health Skill-Building

Adults: (21 and over)

Mental health Skill Building (MHSB) is a home based program that provides support in the home and in the community, for adults who have a diagnosed mental illness. Our MHSB program focuses on teaching skills to promote clients ability to get their needs met and live independently while managing mental health symptoms. Competencies worked on are goal setting, symptom mental health management, adherence to medical treatment plans, personal hygiene, nutrition & food preparation, money management and social skills including going on social outings. Our therapists offer a confidential objective sounding board. We listen without judgement and provide tools, practical strategies, support, and insight based psychological research.

We believe that all people deserve a place to come as they are, with their questions, struggles, conflicts, & history.

Insurance Information: ACS participates with Aetna Better Health, Anthem Healthkeepers Plus, Magellan Behavioral, Molina Combined Care of VA, Optima Health Medicaid, United Healthcare Community Care, Virginia Premier/VPEP. Please note we cannot take out of state Medicaid plans.

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Skills to promote growth, independence & community stability:

• Support and adherence to psychiatric and medication treatment plans.

• Monitoring of housing, medical, educational, rehabilitative and psychiatric services.

• Mental health symptom management.

• Social skills and creating a personal support system.

• Personal hygiene.

• Healthier living teaching nutrition, food preparation, accessing community resources, and promoting and encouraging healthy leisure activities.

• Budgeting and money management skills.

• Assist in overcoming emotional and behavioral barriers to vocational success.

Who is eligible for Mental Health Skill Building?

• Individuals eligible for MHSB must demonstrate a clinical necessity due to a mental, behavioral, or emotional disturbance that results in major life activities impairment. 

• Clients should need skill building in any of the following areas: symptom management, adherence to psychiatric and medication treatment plans, social skills and personal support system, personal hygiene, food preparation, & money management.

• Individuals must have a qualifying mental health diagnosis (psychotic disorder, major depressive disorder-recurrent, or bipolar disorder I or II).

• The individual has had some type of residential treatment such as: Psychiatric hospitalization, residential crisis stabilization, Intensive Community Treatment (ICT) or Program of Assertive Community Treatment (PACT) services, placement in a psychiatric residential treatment facility (TRC Level C) or TDO evaluation as a result of decompensation related to serious mental illness.

• In the last the 12 months the individual has been prescribed anti-psychotic, mood stabilizing, or anti-depressant medication.