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Island
Counseling and Disability Services
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"As families progress through the various stages and
changes characteristic of normal life, we can sometimes
find ourselves overwhelmed by the challenges we face...counseling
is one tool that can be used to help families improve
communication or to work through problems whether they
are major life crises or daily discomforts."
Amy
Wallace
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ISLAND
COUNSELING:
Families
overwhelmed by stress, experiencing difficulties in relationships,
struggling with addiction, and/or families in crisis, all seek
help from the Island Counseling Center. The ICC's Mental
Health and Substance Abuse Programs provide services to all
individuals regardless of ability to pay. Client fees
are set in accordance with the ICDS's sliding fee scale.
No client is denied counseling services based on an inability
to pay for treatment. Unfunded care is supported through
the generosity of donors who contribute to our Annual Appeal,
by proceeds from The Thrift Shop, and through those who participate
in the agency's special events--the Possible Dreams Auction
and the MV Challenge.
Island Counseling Center is an active program, providing more
than 10,000 visits each year and touching the lives of more
than 890 Island families. The staff is comprised of licensed
social workers, licensed psychologists, licensed mental health
counselors, a clinical nurse specialist, and a psychiatrist/medical
director. A full range of services are provided within
the outpatient mental health and substance abuse programs, including
individual, family, couple, group, and case consultation services.
They include:
Family and Adult Outpatient Service
- Individual,
couples and family counseling
- Assessment,
diagnosis and treatment
- Psychiatric
evaluation, psychological testing
- Medication
evaluation and monitoring
- Readjustment
counseling for war veterans
- 24-hour
Emergency Response
Children's
and Youth Services
- Individual,
family and group Mental Health and Substance Abuse counseling
- Family
Based Services/Flexible Support Treatment Programs - intensive
in-home and out-reach services
- Psychiatric
evaluation and psychological testing
- Medication
evaluation and monitoring
- 24-Hour
Emergency Response
Substance
Abuse Programs
- Licensed
outpatient program
- Individual,
couple, family and group counseling
- Psychiatric
evaluation
- Psychoeducational
groups
- Intervention
services
- Referrals
to detox and rehabilitation programs
- Follow-up
care
- Driver
Alcohol Education, Second Offenders Program
- Recovery
Groups
Daybreak
Program
- Clubhouse
for adults with mental illness
- Vocational
and Employment Program
- Social
Club
The
Daybreak Clubhouse of Martha's Vineyard tackles the challenges
of mental illness through a program of compassion. For adults
coping with the isolation, stigma and other challenges of serious
mental illness, the Clubhouse is a place to come to and to belong.
The Clubhouse is a home away from home, and all the while it
is attacking the illnesses that its members suffer from. There
is no other program of recovery similar to that of the Clubhouse.
Empowerment, companionship and maintaining one's balance in
life are just a few of the benefits.
The Clubhouse runs on a work-ordered day. Members and staff
work together each day, Monday through Friday, to perform the
jobs of the Clubhouse. All of the Clubhouse jobs, from making
lunch to writing monthly reports to the Department of Mental
Health to vacuuming the floor are shared equally between staff
and members.
Indeed, work is a central force of the Clubhouse recovery program.
Work teaches that participation in the community is possible,
that the mental illness is not supremely handicapping. Work
rewards by instilling in the worker a sense of accomplishment
and self-sufficiency. In these regards, the Clubhouse also sponsors
a transitional employment (TE) program. Through its TE program,
the Clubhouse offers temporary, six to nine month positions
with local business, at prevailing wage rates, to its members.
Social outings are another component of the Clubhouse model
of recovery from serious mental illness. There is a social outing
each weekend and on each holiday. Typical outings are movie
matinees, walks on conservation properties and off-Island trips,
which occur about once a quarter. The Clubhouse also sponsors
a few other social events each year. There are employment dinners
twice a year to recognize those members who are working in the
community and there are occasional open houses in which members
of the community are invited in to see the Clubhouse.
Housing, entitlement and educational supports are the third
component of the Clubhouse model. The Clubhouse will assist
its members in housing and entitlement applications and will
make available the tools needed for members to pursue further
education.
The Clubhouse is located at 457 B State Road, behind the Woodlawn
Marketplace. The hours of operation are 8:30am to 4:30pm. The
phone number is 508-696-7563.
DISABILITY
SERVICES:
Disability
Services embodies the philosophy that individuals and families
are the best decision-makers concerning their lives. Disability
Services lends support and guidance to make and implement those
decisions. The programs that provide comprehensive services
and supports under the umbrella of Disability Services are:
- Island
Employment Service
is
funded by the Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission (MRC)
to provide vocational evaluation and job placement services
for approximately 30 individuals each year. IES
has been providing services on the Island since 1987, and
has maintained one of the highest placement records and
job retention records in the State. The staff of IES
has been recognized at the regional, state, and national
level for their accomplishments on Martha's Vineyard.
For more information, contact Chip Bergeron (x251) or Kendra
Yale (x250).
- Family
Support Program provides
support to families with family members who have developmental
disabilities in the communities of Martha's Vineyard and
Nantucket. The program strives to do what it takes
to support families to stay together and to access needed
supports and services. The Family Support Program is funded
through a contract with the Department of Mental Retardation.
For more information, contact Kathy Hackett (x249).
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