Services

Hopewell Center serves an annual caseload of over 4,600 patients. The nature of the environment and the prevalence of mental illness in our service area demand that Hopewell Center deliver quality service and constantly develop services and programs to meet the needs of a large patient population. The Center's array of mental health and rehabilitative services designed to meet the needs of mentally ill individuals among the people we serve include the following:

General Services

Access Services
Screening services designed to determine the services and programs that are appropriate for the patient. Special attention is given to the coordination of referrals and authorizations of treatment.

In-Patient Treatment
Services are provided through a contractual agreement with Metropolitan Psychiatric Center, St. Louis Psychiatric Rehabilitation, Hawthorn Children's Psychiatric Hospital, and other hospitals in the St. Louis area. Our psychiatrists are on staff at various private hospitals in the area.

Emergency Services
24-hour telephone services or in-person contact, when appropriate, for emergency treatment during the day. Through a contract with Behavioral Health Response, Hopewell contracts for mobile outreach crisis bed care and 24-hour telephone service during the hours Hopewell Center is closed.

Supportive Community Living Program
This program provides a wide range of monitoring, treatment, placement, and community organization services to psychiatric patients living in nursing, boarding, residential, group, and cooperative apartments in the St. Louis Metropolitan Area. The focus is directed toward ensuring quality of care as well as preventing psychiatric and medical readmission.

Pharmacy On-Site
Hopewell has contracted to have an on-site pharmacy for patient convenience in securing medications. This service assists patients in complying with treatment.

Consultation and Education - C & E
Provides education and information to service area residents and citizen groups. The role of C & E includes educating the general public on the concept of mental health and treatment and how treatment can be helpful and accepted if an individual's cultural background and history are respected in the mental health arena on the local, state, and national level.

Advocacy
Involves a broad range of local and state activities to decrease the stigma of mental illness, which includes speaking and working on behalf of mentally ill individuals and patient groups to help them to understand the mental health system and how to obtain the treatment and support they need.

Transportation
Provided for clients who need transportation to the Psycho-Social Rehabilitation Program.

Medicaid Eligibility Screening
Through a contract with the Department of Social Services, eligibility screenings are done at Hopewell Center. Clients complete the application process to determine their eligibility for Medicaid.

Referral Services
Clients who are not eligible for services at Hopewell Center are provided with appropriate referrals to other community agencies and providers.

Interpretation for Deaf or Hearing Impaired and Foreign Language Clients
Provide interpreters to facilitate communication between deaf/hearing-impaired clients and hearing staff, and those clients who do not understand English.

Aftercare Transitional
The program provides services for persons with a serious mental illness who are at risk for repeated hospital admission, frequent use of the emergency room and crisis hotline/mobile outreach. The program also provides services for individuals who suffer from acute emotional disorders. This program will provide services to stabilize treatment gains through case management, coordination of support services in the home and community, and medication services. This service is designed to keep the treatment focus in an outpatient setting rather than emergency rooms and inpatient facilities.

Respite Care
Respite care provides temporary relief for caregivers from the responsibility of caring for an individual with mental illness, or who may be at risk of abuse or neglect from the individual in their care. Respite may help to decrease caregiver stress and delay or eliminate the need for the institutionalization of the person receiving care.

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Child and Adolescent Services

Children & Adolescent Services - Outpatient
Focuses on providing therapeutic opportunities to help families deal with the many disruptive stresses they may experience. Services available include individual, group, marital, and family counseling, medication, transportation, psychological and psychiatric assessment, and individual guidance in getting a child additional professional help he or she may need.

Targeted Case Management for Children
Provides intensive community-based services to maintain the client in the home and prevent out-of-home placement.

Community Psychiatric Rehabilitation for Children & Adolescents - CPRC -Jr.
A variety of services focused on helping Seriously Emotionally Disturbed (SED) youth to live successfully in their homes, schools and community. Staff is multi-disciplinary and treatment planning is highly individualized based on the nature of the client's mental illness, talents, and interests. Currently this program is directed toward those SED adolescents who are learning independent living skills and have educational, vocational, and career goals. Included are funds to pay reasonable immediate expenses to help families maintain the youth in the community

Child / Adolescent Community Psychosocial Rehabilitation - Intensive
Focuses on Seriously Emotionally Disturbed (SED) children / adolescents and their families. This program provides intensive 24-hour crisis oriented, home and community based services to SED youth who are at immediate risk for out of home placement and/or require post hospitalization stabilization. This program provides services to youth diagnosed as SED who may not be eligible for the community school-based services.

School Based Program
Provides services to students who are at risk of not completing their education within the St. Louis Public Schools. Services, which take place in four elementary and two middle schools, are also available for parents as well as consultation to teachers and school officials.

Juvenile Justice Initiative for Seriously Emotionally Disturbed Youth
Designed to identify children and all adolescents in contact with Juvenile Court who may have mental health needs. Court staff screen youth to refer for additional evaluation. Eligible youth, who are Seriously Emotionally Disturbed (SED), are enrolled into Targeted Case Management Services. They may also be provided with specialized treatments, such as, Multisystemic Therapy (MST), home-based parenting, and psychiatric or psychological services. The goal of this initiative is to prevent further Juvenile Court involvement. This initiative is sponsored by the Missouri Department of Mental Health, the City of St. Louis Mental Health Board of Trustees, and the Twenty-second Judicial Circuit Family Court.

Treatment Family Homes
This service provides a safe, home-like setting in a licensed private residence for children who must be removed from their own homes for a period of time, in order to help them achieve a reduction of symptoms of their mental illness or, to further other treatment goals. Treatment Parents are specifically trained to provide oversight, structure, guidance, behavior management, medication compliance, and advocacy.

Co-Dependency Group Counseling (Children)
This service consists of activities, discussions, and role-playing within a developmentally appropriate group of children to help these children to understand the negative impact of substance abuse, gain coping mechanisms, and build skills that will enable these children to recover from the cycle of co-dependency.

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Adult Services

Adult Outpatient Services
Focuses on providing therapeutic opportunities to help adults deal with the many disruptive stresses they may experience. Services available include individual, group, marital, and family counseling, medication, transportation, psychological and psychiatric assessment, and individual guidance in getting a client additional professional help he or she may need.

Mental Health Court
This service responds to the unique challenges faced by the mentally ill within the criminal justice population. The entire panel of Hopewell Center services, and well as linking and referral to other appropriate services, are made available to these persons through our partnership with the Mental Health Court.

Targeted Case Management for Adults
Provides intensive community-based services to maintain the client in the home and prevent out-of-home placement.

Adult / Elderly Services
For people 18 years of age or older with specialized services for the elderly. Clients may receive individualized treatment, outpatient, emergency, and follow-up. Referrals are made for related problems including alcohol and drug abuse and mental retardation.

Residential Care Facility
Provides supervised, flexible, therapeutic residential living arrangement that promotes independence and community reintegration in a family-like atmosphere.

Apartment Program
Assist clients in living independently with the support, assistance, and encouragement of a Community Support Worker when needed. Also includes pre-vocational training and G.E.D. courses.

Psycho-Social Rehabilitation Center
Organized as a club where members can grow through educational and pre-vocational training. There are opportunities for temporary employment, recreational activities, and socializing.

Community Psychiatric Rehabilitation Center - CPRC Adult
A variety of services focused on helping clients live successfully in their community. Staff is multi-disciplinary and treatment planning is highly individualized based on the nature of the client's mental illness, talents, and interests.

Homeless Program
Provides services to chronically mentally ill individuals who are also homeless.

Co-Occurring Substance Abuse Program
These services are individually tailored to promote improvement of interpersonal relationships, improved physical health, decrease psychiatric symptoms, increase knowledge regarding mental health, improve access and availability of services, navigate bureaucracies, abstain from drugs, and finally integrate into communities.

Crisis Beds - Non-Medical
Provides for short-term professionally supervised care for adults who are experiencing a psychiatric or emotional crisis and are in need of 24-hour supervision or observation to promote stabilization and provide referral to another level of care.

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