Residential & Community Support Services: Willimantic
Residential Support Services
Residential Support Services provide support and supervised housing for adults with psychiatric disabilities in the Willimantic and Northeast areas. Goals of the program are to help residents develop the motivation and specific skills necessary for successful independent living in the community.
Willimantic Area
Renee Grabert, MS, Manager, Windham Area Community Support Services
132 Mansfield Ave., Willimantic, CT 06226 - T: 860.456.2261 F: 860.450.1357
Passages
306-308 Pleasant Street
Willimantic, CT 06226
T: 860.450.7159
Brick Row
25 Vermont Drive
Willimantic, CT 06226
T: 860.450.7246
Passages is an apartment program with a wide range of supported living arrangements-from apartments in a building with staff to apartments scattered in the Willimantic area where the residents hold their own leases. The program is designed to help people who have had serious mental illness live more independently in the community.
Eligibility: Meets eligibility criteria of severe and prolonged mental illness as defined by the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services.
Funding is provided by the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services.
Brick Row is an apartment complex created under the Connecticut Supportive Housing Demonstration Program in conjunction with The Corporation for Supportive Housing. This national, nonprofit organization works to combat homelessness by facilitating permanent, service-supported, affordable housing. Supportive housing links tenants with support services that enable people with disabilities and those who have trouble maintaining housing to live independent, productive, dignified lives in their own homes. Residents hold leases, pay subsidized rent and are expected to comply with lease provisions.
United Services maintains an office in the complex and provides Case Management Services to tenants.
Eligibility: Services are provided to any tenant of Brick Row who desires them.
Intensive Case Management & Stepping Stones
Contact: Michael Johnson, Manager
132 Mansfield Ave., Willimantic, CT 06226 - T: 860.456.2261 F: 860.450.1357
Intensive Case Management works with adults who have difficulty utilizing conventional behavioral health services. The ICM Team is composed of a manager with a limited caseload, two clinicians, a case manager, nurse and an APRN nurse who has advanced psychiatric training and experience.
Each Team member will have a caseload, but all Team members will work with all clients. The key to the Team's success is for clients to be engaged with staff so that trust develops. Because of their impairment, not their lack of motivation, clients have difficulty responding to office-based treatment.
Services provided:
- Community-based services
- Case management
- Crisis assessment and intervention
- Symptom assessment, management and therapy
- Medication prescriptions, administration, monitoring and documentation
- Substance abuse services
- Vocational services
- Activities of daily living in community-based settings
- Social, interpersonal relationship and leisure-time skill training
- Support services for the basic necessities of daily life
- Education, support and consultation to families
Eligibility: Adults in the Windham area who have prolonged and severe mental illness and with co-occurring addictive disorders.
Funding is provided by the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services.
Stepping Stones is a scattered site apartment program located in the Willimantic area that serves people who have both mental illness and substance abuse problems. People live in their own apartments in the community and utilize the drop-in-center up to five days a week. Structures for daily living are developed between the case manager and the resident. Participation is long term.
Stepping Stones
26 Mansfield Avenue
Willimantic, CTÂ 06226
T: 860.450.7387