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Transitional-living: is available for clients who are progressing from residential care to a more independent living environment.

 

Services provided include:

 

Accommodations

 

We have four furnished townhouses next door to each other in north Boulder in which our clients can stay with a modest amount of supervision as they transition into independent living. There are two house managers on-site at night and a community organizer who is at the location during the day at different times; each resident has his or her own bedroom. Residents can relax and work together in the kitchen, living and dining areas. Basic food supplies and other household necessities such as towels and linens are provided.

We also have another 3-bedroom house in the same neighborhood with a house manager and rooms for two clients.

A safe and healthy living environment in a three-bedroom house in Boulder

 

The house managers are not there to provide treatment but, rather, to be a stable presence to report any unsafe or unhealthy behaviors to the treatment staff.

Oversight by house managers is available evenings and overnight 7 days a week. The house managers and the community organizer receive supervision from the Transitional Housing Coordinator.

 

Shopping, cooking and dining as a group

 

The residents, house managers and community organizer shop for food together and dine together as a group at least four evenings a week.

 

Opportunity to learn the skills of managing an independent household

 

The experience of living in a household with some supervision and working with the community organizer not only offers the client the opportunity to learn basic living and household management skills but also informs the treatment team about the client’s capacity to live independently or with other housemates.

 

Weekly community meetings to discuss ideas the community would like to create as well as individual household issues

 

Community and household meetings are scheduled weekly to discuss the desires of the community and individual household issues. The Transitional Housing Program is overseen by Karen Sturgis, who supervises the community organizer and house managers.

 

Access to 24-hour psychiatric services

Psychiatrists and mental health professional staff are available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, to respond to any questions or problems. House managers are trained to contact on-call staff any time that a problem may arise.

Residents in the transitional living program will also be enrolled in an appropriate level of outpatient psychiatric treatment and rehabilitation, on the usual fee scale. Most clients in the transitional program are enrolled in intensive outpatient treatment.

 

We can also set up living situations with a house manager for individual clients on a long-term basis for those who need that level of ongoing supervision. These living situations are overseen by the Transitional Housing Coordinator with the same level of supervision described above.