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Overview: Psychiatric Rehabilitation Program (PRP) St. Luke’s House provides psychiatric rehabilitation and support services to clients who live in St. Luke’s House residential facilities or elsewhere in the community, The PRP is an “umbrella” over other SLH programs which include Residential, Supported Living, Employment Focused clusters, Back to Work, and Life Skills. All psychiatric rehabilitation services we provide are individualized and flexible based on the changing needs of each individual.
Currently, we have the capacity to serve 380 people in our Psychiatric Rehabilitation Program (PRP). Of these individuals, 103 live in St. Luke’s House residential rehabilitation facilities, i.e. group homes, townhouses or apartments. The other 277 people live elsewhere in the community.
St. Luke’s House has developed an integrated, individualized, and geographically based model for providing psychiatric rehabilitation services. Under this model, staff members from all PRP programs, as well as Outpatient Mental Health Clinic, join together with the common goal of high quality service provision. Since it is expected that consumers’ rehabilitation and recovery processes are fluid and changing over time, consumers may access any one of the designated PRP programs as their needs and goals dictate. While the programs are listed separately below, they in fact operate as an integrated, comprehensive, and Evidence Based practice array of psychiatric rehabilitation services.
The Outpatient Mental Health Clinic, licensed in 1997, allows the further enhanced integration of mental health treatment into the service model, so that teams can better address all of the clients’ community mental health treatment and rehabilitation needs.
Intake: The intake process is initiated by a telephone call to the Intake Department at St. Luke’s House (301-493-4200 ext. 234) by the applicant, family member, or involved professional. An application will be filled out based on this phone interview. When an appropriate opening occurs, a call is made to the applicant to update application information and ensure continued interest. If applicant wants to proceed, a referral form will be sent to a physician (usually the psychiatrist treating the applicant). Within two weeks after the Intake Specialist receives a psychiatric referral form signed by the applicant’s outpatient physician, the applicant will be contacted to schedule an intake interview.
To qualify for admission, an applicant must be an adult (age 18 or above) who resides in Montgomery County or is a former St. Luke’s House client residing in Prince George’s County, suffers from mental illness, and would benefit from the services offered by St. Luke’s House. The applicant must be willing to enroll in the program, comply with the service contract, engage in rehabilitation, and be willing to pay for the program. Persons not eligible for the program include applicants needing medical attention for detox and applicants who are actively engaged in life-threatening behavior or illegal activities. An applicant who is actively abusing substances must be in treatment.
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