Effective 9/1/23 VCFS will be transitioning to the Magnolia Group
Mental Health Skill Building Services
VCFS provides Mental Health Skill Building Services (MHSBS) that are designed to ass. MHSBS is designed to help individuals 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.
MHSBS accepts a variety of referrals. 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 are designed to assist those with mental health diagnoses in meeting all of life’s struggles and challenges – from helping the client to navigate through the often confusing and burdensome maze associated with accessing community resources to training the client in the most basic life skills. VCFS provides Mental Health Skill-Building Services meeting a wide range of needs associated directly with the mental illness itself and also with the accompanying issues that go along with every mental health diagnosis.