Strong Families Healthy Homes Intensive In-Home and Day Programs

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Strong Families Healthy HomesIntensive In-Home
and Day Programs
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Intensive In-Home(formerly known as ICP)

• Family Advocate
• Home/Community visits
• Family goals
• Day program
• Family Nights
• Tier system

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Day Program

• Staffed by Peer Specialists
• Safe and comfortable environment
• Weekly groups and classes
• Serves families on the waiting list and graduates
  of the in-home program
• Connections to community resources
• Food, child care and bus tickets

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Groups and Classes

• 1. Wellness Recovery
• 8 Weeks
• Focus Recovery from Mental Illness
• General understanding of diagnoses and treatments
• Knowledge of illness, symptoms and response to
  treatment

2. Freedom Self Advocacy - 6 weeks - Focuses on
improving self sufficiency and building skills
for self-advocacy 3. Parent Support
Group -every week -provides forum for
discussion on current issues in the homes and
community -facilitated by Peer Specialist
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Groups and Classes, contd.

• 3. Parenting
• 9 weeks
• Bavoleks Nurturing Parenting Program
• Mental Health supplements
• Focusing on
• How mental illness affects parenting
• Nurturing and bonding qualities of parents
• 4. Other groups/classes
• -Misc workshops
• -Nutrition
• -Healthy Relationships
• -Anger/Stress Management

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History of Strong Families Healthy Homes

• Need 60-75 of parents with a mental illness
  will lose custody of their children at one time
• ICP implemented in 2001 by MHA-W
• Targeting the needs of the entire family when a
  parent has a mental illness
• SFRC was opened in 2005

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Objectives for Parents

• Empower and assist them in meeting the needs of
  their child(ren).
• Increase the likelihood of a safe and nurturing
  environment for their children.
• Improve the mental well-being of the parent.
• Enhance their ability to seek support and
  linkages in the community so that they can manage
  and function in the community with their
  children.

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Objectives for the Children

• Increase protective factors.
• Provide a safe, understanding environment.
• Improve coping strategies.
• Reduce the risk of mental illness in the child as
  an adolescent or adult.

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Questions?
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Thank you!

• Mental Health America of Wisconsin
• 600 West Virginia Street, Suite 502
• [phone]
• www.mhawisconsin.org
• Beth Lappen- beth_at_mhawisconsin.org