Description:
INDIVIDUALIZED AND MOBILE PROGRAM OF ASSERTIVE COMMUNITY TREATMENT
(IMPACT)
Impact is a program designed for individuals with severe mental illness who are in need of intensive services in the community.
Individuals involved with Impact must reside within 5 miles of the Yankton area.
Services offered by IMPACT are provided by a team of professionals whose backgrounds include:
social work, psychology, nursing, occupational therapy, psychology and psychiatry.
Services are comprehensive, highly individualized and are available on a 24 hour, 7 day a week basis.
Referrals to IMPACT must go through the Division of Mental Health in Pierre, SD.
Services include:
- Assistance with maintaining basic needs such as housing, shopping, laundry and cleaning
- Coordination and assistance with health care
- Case management that is strength based and co-occurring capable
- 24 hour availability and in-home services
- Monthly psychiatric consultation
- Peer counseling
- Vocational services
- Education about mental illness, medication delivery and skill development
- Money management
- Promotion of independence, recovery and a focus on strengths
- Person centered planning
- Family education and supportive involvement
- Individual and family therapy