Community Stabilization
Gateway Services offers a community stabilization program for adults, children, and adolescents. While experiencing a psychiatric crisis, an individual may be unable to care for themselves. If your loved one is unable to care for themself, isolated from their community, or at risk of homelessness, hospitalization, or incarceration—our community stabilization service is here to help.
In order to qualify for the program, the in-crisis individual should be:
- Virginia Medicaid eligible.
- At high risk for psychiatric hospitalization, homeless due to mental illness; or require intervention by the mental health or criminal justice system due to inappropriate social behavior.
- Isolating themselves from others.
- Unable to perform daily duties, resulting in putting their health and safety at risk.
- Unable to recognize when they are putting themselves in danger.
Our Community Stabilization program accepts a variety of referrals. In the best situations, this can be a self-referral. However, oftentimes this is community referrals, physician referrals, family/friend referrals, school referrals, therapists/psychiatric referrals, and referrals from the Department of Social Services.
If any of the above apply to the in-crisis individual, please contact us to see if you qualify for our services.
Mental Health Skill Building Services
Gateway Services also offers Mental Health Skill Building Services. This program helps the individual develop life skills to become independent and integrate themselves into the community. This service is tailored to the individual’s needs and is designed for adults with a proven clinical need.
If you are looking to refer an individual to this program, the person should meet the following criteria:
- Virginia Medicaid eligible.
- Functionally impaired due to a mental, physical, or behavioral disorder.
- Have a history of mental health/psychiatric occurrences. This can include having previously been hospitalized, referred to crisis stabilization, being in Intensive Community Treatment (ICT), Program of Assertive Community Treatment (PACT), Psychiatric Residential Treatment (RTC Level C), or Temporary Detention Order (TDO) due to psychiatric decompensation.
- Prescribed a mental health medication within the past 12 months.
Our Mental Health Skill-Building Program accepts a variety of referrals. In the best situations, this can be a self-referral. However, oftentimes this is community referrals, physician referrals, family/friend referrals, school referrals, therapists/psychiatric referrals, and referrals from the Department of Social Services.
If any of the above apply to the in-crisis individual, please contact us to see if you qualify for our services.
Intensive In-Home
Looking for a program that allows the individual to stay at home while benefiting from our resources? The Intensive In-Home program focuses on improving the individual’s interactions within the home, school, and the broader community, providing the individual with assistance at home and offering coordination with other care providers.
Our Intensive In-Home program is focused on changing the home environment and the family unit and these sessions are performed in the home or community.
In order to qualify, the individual should:
- Be Virginia Medicaid eligible.
- Have a mental, physical, or behavioral disorder that requires a need for this service.
- Be at risk to be placed into juvenile detention, psychiatric hospitalization, therapeutic foster care, or residential treatment facilities.
- Demonstrate an inability to recognize when their behaviors or actions place themselves or others in danger.
- Other, less restrictive services, have been exhausted and unsuccessful.
An individual can be referred to our Intensive In-Home Services program through self-referral, community organizations, physicians, family, friends, schools, therapists/psychiatrists, foster care agencies, school staff/administrators/teachers/counselors, and the Department of Social Services.
If any of the above apply to the individual, please contact us to see if you qualify for our services.
Partial Hospitalization Program
Looking for a program that allows the individual to stay at home while benefiting from our resources? The Intensive In-Home program focuses on improving the individual’s interactions within the home, school, and the broader community, providing the individual with assistance at home and offering coordination with other care providers.
The program consists of an interdisciplinary team of mental health professionals providing a minimum of 20 hours per week of skilled treatment services to include:
- Daily lunch and snacks provided
- Group therapy
- Individual treatment
- Family education and support
- Educational groups
- Recreational therapy
- Weekly medication management appointments
- Aftercare planning
The program consists of a clinical team of addiction treatment professionals providing a maximum of 9 hours per week of intensive therapy.
23 Hour Crisis Stabilization
Our 23-Hour Crisis Stabilization program consists of a multidisciplinary team of mental health professionals providing treatment services 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The program provides an ongoing assessment, crisis intervention and a clinical determination for level of care to individuals experiencing a behavioral health crisis. Services are provided for a period up to 23 hours in a community and center-based setting. Services are accessible 24/7 and allow individuals who are experiencing a behavioral health crisis to be in a safe environment for observation and assessment.
Services are provided to individuals who have urgent behavioral health needs including but not limited to:
- Significant emotional dysregulation
- Disordered thought processes
- Substance use and intoxication resulting in behavioral crisis and environmentally de-stabilizing events
Services include, but are not limited to:
- Individualized treatment planning
- Individual and family therapy
- Nursing on-site 24/7
- Skill restoration/development
- Health literacy counseling
- Psycho-educational interventions
- Psychiatric evaluation
- Crisis intervention
- Care coordination
Outpatient Therapy
Gateway Services offers outpatient therapy services to families, children, and adolescents. These therapy sessions are helpful for individuals looking to clarify and set their goals as well as learn the proper techniques and strategies to accomplish them. This also includes developing strategies to help them overcome challenges and difficulties in their personal lives.
These sessions can be performed over telehealth or at one of our locations. All therapy sessions are performed by a licensed mental health professional (LPC or LCSW) or under the supervision of a licensed mental health professional (LMHP). Sessions are held according to a schedule determined by the therapist and the individual. There are no qualifications for this service and it is covered under most insurance plans, Virginia Medicaid, or can be self-paid.
Specific outpatient therapy services offered include:
- Individual, family, couples, group therapy.
- Assessment and diagnostics.
- Evaluations and recommendations for behavioral health treatment.
- Parent training.
- Assistance with development of behavior modification plans.
- Assisting with helping family members understand the special education process.
- Care coordination.
An individual can be referred to our outpatient therapy services program through self-referral, community organizations, physicians, family, friends, schools, therapists/psychiatrists, foster care agencies, school staff/administrators/teachers/counselors, and the Department of Social Services.
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