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Army camp Mariposa
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Created and supported by Eluna, Camp Mariposa® is a national mentoring and addiction prevention program for youth who have been impacted by the substance use disorder of a family member.

The primary plan component are free weekend camp sessions offered multiple times throughout the yr for youth ages 9 to 12 facing the difficult challenges associated with a family member'southward substance use disorder.

Military camp Mariposa is a traditional, fun, multi‐day camp providing counseling and emotional support, while educating children about a variety of trouble solving and self‐care strategies to help build positive self‐esteem.

Additional social activities are offered for campers, teens, and their families during non-camp months.

Eluna partners with youth-focused and mental health organizations to provide educational and support services in a fun, condom environment.

Upcoming Camp Dates for 2022

• February 18-xx
• March 25-27
• May 13-15
• July 22-24
• September xxx - October ii
• November eleven-13

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Youth Application

Mentor Awarding

About Eluna

Eluna is a public, 501(c)(3) not-profit with a mission to back up children and families impacted past grief or addiction. Founded in 2000 in Seattle by one-time MLB bullpen Jamie Moyer and child abet Karen Phelps Moyer, Eluna was originally called The Moyer Foundation and launched a series of programs supporting thousands of children and families annually at no cost to them. Camp Erin® is the largest national network of grief programs for bereaved children and teens, Campsite Mariposa® is a national addiction prevention and mentoring program for youth impacted by a family member'south substance use disorder, and the Eluna Resource Center offers online tools, local referrals and personalized telephone and email back up for families experiencing grief, addiction and other related issues. For more information, delight visit elunanetwork.org.

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The Mustard Seed Inn

The Mustard Seed Inn provides transitional housing to homeless adults who have begun their recovery from alcohol, drug abuse and/or mental illness. The Mustard Seed Inn, a tri-level facility (a former hotel), is centrally located just minutes from downtown St. Petersburg in a large catchment surface area for veterans due to the presence of ii of the largest VA health care systems in the nation (James A. Haley Veterans Hospital and Bay Pines VA Wellness Care System).

The Mustard Seed Inn, established more than 20 years ago, offers 73 beds for 24/7 transitional living, substance apply and co-occurring substance use and mental health disorders treatment, and recovery support services. The facility serves both males and females, although rooms are separated by gender. Licensed by the state of Florida Department of Children and Families - Suncoast, the Mustard Seed Inn provides counseling, case management, job support and recovery-based services that help adults develop the skills needed to transition into permanent housing within the community. During the 2007 program year, the Mustard Seed Inn provided services for 315 males and females. Residents can remain in the facility for upwardly to 24 months if needed.

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Pinellas County Drug Courtroom Services and Outpatient Substance Corruption Services

WestCare provides twelve (12) weeks of group counseling and drug screening for individuals referred by the Pinellas County Drug Court. Placement in Levels II or 3 services will be determined at assessment and every bit ordered by the court. Funding from the Substance Corruption and Mental Health Services Administration focuses on serving women with substance abuse issues who as well suffer form prescription medication misuse problems. Persons served are required by the Pinellas Canton Drug Court to nourish the Level II or Three Outpatient Program at WestCare Florida, located at the N Belcher Route role in Clearwater for the north county group or in the Outpatient Part in St. Petersburg for the s county group. All Drug Court clients are provided with special offender counseling that recognizes that the learning needs, psychological problems and social skills of the client must be addressed to prevent relapse into substance abusing and criminal behavior. The programme design recognizes that whatsoever relapse into criminal behavior is likely to crusade a relapse into chemic use, and that any relapse into the use of drugs, including alcohol is likely to crusade a relapse into criminal behavior. The focus is equally on abstinence from criminal behavior besides as substance use. The handling providers functions equally part of a treatment team which is made up of the court including the judge, and other members of that system, instance managers, probation officers and attorneys. The treatment provider meets with the drug courtroom team to discuss individual participants and will participate in provider meetings to address drug court bug and to continuously better drug court effectiveness.

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Turning Indicate

Turning Bespeak, an emergency intervention shelter and inebriate receiving facility, provides emergency intervention shelter services for homeless adults with substance corruption problems. The shelter is the only facility (in the local expanse) that accepts inebriated adults direct from the street. Overall, the shelter is designed to provide temporary emergency shelter and cold night shelter services for individuals who have non all the same begun their journey into recovery from alcohol and drug abuse. In the Turning Point program, WestCare staff members endeavor to engage individuals by offer supportive services. Clients may also be linked to customs-based health and human services including temporary shelter, nourishment, shower facilities, case management, supportive counseling, skills building groups and 12-step meetings. Many clients transition into residential substance abuse treatment within WestCare at the Mustard Seed Inn located within minutes of the shelter. Special populations served past Turning Point include veterans and individuals with co-occurring issues.

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(Sally) 6 Month Residential Plan for Men and (Focus and WEMERGE) 12-18 Month Residential Plan for Men and Women

WestCare - Gulfcoast'southward residential program for men and women who are generally court ordered to participate in substance treatment. They tin can be referred by the courts, any legal system, self-referred, or by family members or friends. Participants in this treatment program all accept a serious substance abuse trouble or a co-occurring disorder. The modified therapeutic community model program consists of 2 phases or components. The first phase of the programme is the Intensive Treatment Component (ITC), and the last phase of the programme is the Employment/Re-entry Component (ERC). These residential programs are a modified TC located at the WestCare Customs Involvement Middle in St. Petersburg, Florida. The Target population is adult males with a substance utilise and/or co-occurring mental wellness disorder, who may be referred by the courtroom arrangement, family, and friends or self referral for residential treatment. The mission of Emerge is to provide comprehensive and innovative services to Central Florida's criminal justice involved substance abusers. Sally is a 6-eight month program, divided into iii phases:

• Orientation - Stabilization to the environs and orientation to the handling program and the addiction and recovery procedure. Staff volition teach the basic ten functions of the Therapeutic Community philosophy through learning, practicing and being challenged on each skill.
• Engagement - produces constructive insights and changes in behavior. There is a strong emphasis on decision-making, acceptance of ones inability to employ substances, pre-vocational and/or educational education and development of a plan for relapse prevention, including recognition of the demand to go on in aftercare handling or with self-help groups beyond the treatment experience.
• Reentry - Participants are required to secure and maintain full time employment during the day, and participate in treatment groups and activities either prior to or after work. Our treatment program blends a peer leadership model with professional supervision. Members reside on the premises, and participate in a total complement of treatment groups which focus on abstinence issues, criminal thinking, life skills, and prevocational readiness.

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Juvenile Prevention Programs

WestCare Gulf Coast Prevention Programs serve youth ages 9 to 18 years of age. After school, diversion program for both delinquent and pre-runaway youth ages 8-17. Participants receive substance abuse prevention, life skills and activities that are alternatives to crime and drug use. The services are offered on site at designated school locations and at 1735 Dr. Martin Luther Rex St, South. St Petersburg Fl 33705.

• The UPSIDE - Utilizing Positive Strategies in Developing Efficacy. The goal of the program is to reduce disproportionate minority contact with the Juvenile Justice System by developing customs and school-based prevention and intervention programs for targeted youth.
• Girls Circle of Back up Program: This plan is gender-specific for girls and includes a strengths-based back up group that addresses the specialized needs of minority center-school aged girls in the South St. petersburg area.
• Alternatives Prevention Programme: This 24 week programme will address areas of concern such every bit social skills, improving communication, making positive decisions, coping with depression and anxiety, anger management and educational activity regarding drugs and their effects with a focus on reducing underage drinking. Additionally, nosotros offering prevention presentations to assemblies and groups.

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SOUTH FLORIDA - VILLAGE S

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Village South Adult Outreach

The Developed Outreach Program seeks to reduce the negative impact and price of substance abuse on our customs and its families. This plan serves the many diverse communities of Miami-Dade Canton by providing linkages to social services that the clients would not otherwise access. The target populations for the Outreach Program are persons ages 18 and upwardly in need of substance abuse prevention or treatment services, who reside in Miami-Dade County. Trained outreach specialists work to identify persons in need of substance corruption services ranging from prevention to intervention to handling and work, and to diligently match these persons with existing customs resources. The outreach specialists empower the client to access needed services and help them in navigating the substance corruption services delivery arrangement within Miami-Dade County. Our program finer increases clients' acceptance and readiness for services, resulting in more than efficient utilization of and retentivity within programs. The array of services with which clients are connected include residential and outpatient substance abuse treatment, HIV counseling and testing, mental health counseling, domestic violence counseling, emergency shelter, job training, and diverse educational services. Through this vital plan, The Village touches some x,000 individuals annually through community outreach. Programme benefits include increased identification of persons with substance-related issues, referral and linkage to community services and resource, and increased utilization of substance corruption related, dispensary and other customs-based services.

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Hamlet South Early Intervention

The primary function of the HIV Early Intervention Program is to facilitate client take a chance-reduction behaviors in relation to HIV manual. The Early Intervention Program utilizes the NIDA Community Based Outreach Model: A Manual to Reduce HIV and Other Blood-borne Infections in Drug Users. This proven, effective model has been adapted to exist suitable for use in the residential treatment setting. Health education and risk-reduction components are delivered equally a group-level intervention over four sessions. The early intervention specialist uses interactive skills to discern client concerns, needs and priorities and to provide data regarding technical aspects of HIV/AIDS. Clients are continually assessed in terms of their knowledge, behavior and attitudes relating to HIV take chances factors. Individual-level interventions are based on this ongoing assessment process, and address individual customer needs in relation to their HIV risks. Individual-level interventions are structured collaboratively with the customer to increment their ability to meet basic needs and conform gamble-reduction behaviors. Program benefits include increased cognition of HIV transmission, increased sex negotiation and advice skills and providing clients with behavioral alter and back up. The target populations for the Early Intervention Program are persons living with HIV/AIDS infection due to their substance abuse histories, who are currently receiving substance abuse treatment in Miami-Dade County.

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Village South Families in Transition

The Families in Transition (FIT) Program is a comprehensive, award-winning residential drug prevention and treatment program for substance abusing men and/or women and their children. The program began with the Federal Department of Health and Human Services SAMHSA grant in 1992. The program utilizes family unit systems theory to guide service planning. FIT serves drug-dependent men and/or women and their families by providing an array of treatment, intervention, educational and employment-oriented services including: substance abuse treatment, case management educational and vocational cess, chore development, placement and memory skills and services integrated throughout. The FIT Program focuses on the importance of parenting skills, family planning and economic cocky-sufficiency. A unique aspect of this programme is there is no limit to the number of children immune to reside with their parent(southward) in treatment. The Hamlet FIT Program received the Florida Alcohol and Drug Abuse Association'due south Best Practice Honor (Thou Prize) in 2002. Programme benefits include the decrease in the apply of and dependence on alcohol and drugs, increased knowledge of parenting skills, reunification of children with their parents, increased family operation, decreased family unit conflict, increased bookish and emotional functioning of the children and subtract in trauma symptoms using the Seeking Safety curriculum. The FIT Plan targets drug-dependent adults and/or pregnant women, their children and families residing in Broward and Monroe counties.

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Village South Good for you Offset

The Good for you Start Program for pregnant women and infants is intended to provide services that volition help with a healthy birth effect and/or salubrious infant. Services include nutrition, psycho-social counseling, smoking cessation, childbirth education, breast-feeding didactics, back up intendance coordination and parenting skills. Healthy Start services are individualized and provided onsite and in-abode to best see the client'southward needs. The program receives its referrals from OB/GYN providers who consummate prenatal screens that are candy past the Section of Health Program Role. The Healthy Start Coalition likewise forwards self-referrals and referrals from the community-based providers. Referrals received are evaluated for highest risks and distributed to the care coordinator/case managers, who make the initial contact with the client. The client and then receives a comprehensive cess and assists in the development of their programme of intendance. The care coordinator/example manager provides referrals to community resource and establishes regular follow-up.

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Village South Life Involves Family unit Empowerment (LIFE)

The Hamlet LIFE Project provides in-home/onsite family therapy to adolescents who exhibit moderate or severe substance abuse issues. Family therapists provide individual and family therapy twice per week. Therapy is a family-focused intervention, involving a structured process of continuous appointment with the boyish, siblings, their parents and other family members. Therapy emphasizes youth and parent skill building, parent and adolescent relationship building, therapeutic interaction and crisis intervention, as needed.

The LIFE Program builds on family assets, working from points of forcefulness rather than weaknesses. Services provided through LIFE include comprehensive assessment, service and treatment planning, case management, private and family unit therapy and urinalysis monitoring. The average length of participation is three to four months. Participation in LIFE assists adolescents in stopping or reducing their booze and drug utilize and improving their overall quality of life. Families benefit from enhanced functioning and cohesiveness and reduction in conflict and disorganization. Participants in LIFE will receive therapy from either of two testify models. The starting time is Adolescent Community Re-Enforcement Approach (ACRA) and the other is through Functional Family Therapy (FFT). The type of clinical model will depend on which modality best suits the family's individual needs. The target populations for the LIFE Program are youth, ages thirteen-17 who reside in Miami-Dade County and are abusing or dependent on booze or drugs, and their parents.

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Village Southward Continuing Care

The Standing Care Programs consist of group and individual substance abuse and mental health counseling, education and relapse prevention for individuals who may be referred through family, employer, HMO, government, the justice system or as a continuum of care for the Village'south residential clients. Individuals are placed in ane of eight outpatient programs (day and night) to suit work and parenting schedules. The Standing Care Programs offering varying levels of treatment services, ranging from the Intensive Standing Care Program that provides eleven hours of group and individual therapy, to the Aftercare Program that entails one group session per week. Boosted services provided past the Continuing Care Program include kid-care services for women and children who are discharged from residential handling. This Continuing Care Program includes in-home therapy and example management services, in addition to weekly group therapy. Continuing Care likewise provides a specialized programme for clients living with HIV. This programme utilizes an constructive best-practise curriculum for risk reduction in clients who are living with HIV. Programme benefits include decreased use and dependence on alcohol and drugs, increased knowledge of the disease of addiction and recovery process and the increased cognition of a customs-based support system.

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Master Habit Treatment

The main focus and benefits for the Main Habit Treatment Programme for individuals enrolled are a decrease in utilize and dependence on substances, increased employment, decreased dependence on public assistance, an increase in knowledge of HIV manual and an Increase in HIV chance reduction behaviors. This programme is bachelor to drug dependent adults, ages 18 and over who reside in Miami-Dade County, Florida. The program services 240 adults annually whose lives are adversely impacted by substance corruption. Individuals are assessed and referred to and admitted to the modality which best meets their changing needs at any given stage of the recovery process. The treatment process begins with a comprehensive assessment of the clients functioning in several areas. Adjacent the client assists in the evolution of their individualized care plan. In addition to individual and group substance abuse counseling, the individual receives services ranging from couples and family therapy, medication management and support, HIV/AIDS education, GED training, employment counseling and vocational services, and housing assistance.

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Attain Out Miami

Attain Out Miami's (ROM) street based outreach programme provides homeless and runaway youth with survival resources, counseling services, comprehensive needs based customs referrals and linkages to care, as well as HIV testing for at risk youth. A master objective of Reach Out Miami is reunification of youth with the caregiver/ family, or having youth placed in shelter. Reach Out Miami provides services and resources to youth 12-17 who are experiencing homelessness, who have runaway, or are unaccompanied. Intervention strategies include individual counseling, family counseling, Clear counseling, HIV/AIDS testing and counseling, too every bit risk reduction counseling. ROM distributes outreach materials such as basic survival kits (i.due east. edibles, water, socks, and hygiene products for temporary support), provides safety sex kits for at gamble youth, likewise as distributes referral services pamphlets and ROM contact information. Customs mentorship, youth advocacy, and educational lectures are also part of ROM'southward prevention strategy including concepts of positive youth development, peer mentoring, youth leadership, volunteerism, and service learning. Programme benefits include decrease in homelessness and associated take a chance factors, reunification of children with their family/ caregiver, and decreased employ of and dependence on alcohol and drugs

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The Village Projection IMPACT (Integrating Multi-level Protective and Customs Targets)

The Village Project IMPACT (Integrating Multi-level Protective and Community Targets) was created to requite both parents and school aged youth the ability to develop determination making skills, risk assessment, bring sensation and prevention methods towards illicit drugs and there usage.

The Village Project IMPACT program uses an evidence-based curriculum chosen Life Skills Training; the curriculum is designed for both Middle Schoolhouse and High School students and focuses on improving wellness attitudes, measured by increased perception of impairment, and reduction of favorable attitudes toward, booze and illicit drugs. To continue the enhancement of the family unit we incorporate the Life Skills Preparation for parents as well that focus on family communication, parental modeling, being a skilful role model, furnishings and warning signs of substances abuse, and taking a clear stand on drug corruption.

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Project STYLE

Project Way is a comprehensive, integrated substance abuse and HIV prevention plan that has been specifically designed to provide age appropriate services to young adults (ages 18 to 24) living in Miami-Dade County, Florida. The program is supported through a 5-year Minority Aids Initiative (MAI) grant from The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). Some of the services offered include:

• RESPECT - This counseling program is individualized. The goal is to assist decrease the chances of attracting HIV. The RESPECT sessions expect at the circumstances, context and consequences of recent loftier-gamble behaviors. RESPECT too addresses the person's challenges in trying to reduce these risky behaviors. The counselor will work with the customer to overcome these challenges.
• Choosing Life: Empowerment! Activity! Results! (CLEAR) - Articulate is a health promotion counseling plan for males and females, ages 16 and older, living with HIV/AIDS and/or individuals who are HIV-negative, but who are at loftier risk. CLEAR is comprehensive and provides the person the opportunity to learn, practise, and internalize behavioral skills that help the person reach the long term behavior change in six specific areas.
• PRIME For Life - Prime For Life is an alcohol and other drug program designed to gently simply powerfully challenge common behavior and attitudes that directly contribute to high-gamble booze and other drug apply. The program goals are to reduce the risk for health problems and damage problems by increasing abstinence, delaying initial use, and decreasing high-run a risk use.
• Community-Based Outreach - Project STYLE staff conducts outreach activities to provide substance abuse and HIV prevention education and other services to immature adults throughout Miami-Dade Canton.
• HIV Testing - Project Manner offers gratis confidential HIV counseling and testing to everyone. As role of the testing process, individuals are provided with bones HIV didactics and risk reduction information. Participation in these counseling and educational activity services will have two main effects. Showtime, information technology will help reduce the factors that make young adults more vulnerable to substance corruption disorders and/or HIV infection (run a risk factors). 2d, it volition help increment the factors that protect immature adults from substance abuse disorders and/or HIV infection (protective factors). The reduction of adventure factors and the simultaneous edifice of protective factors will decrease the incidence of substance abuse disorders and HIV example rates for young adults in Miami-Dade County.

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FLORIDA KEYS - GUIDANCE/Care CENTER

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Guidance/Care Center (GCC) - Criminal Justice and Diversion Services

Criminal Justice and Diversion Services of the Guidance/Intendance Center provides mental health and substance abuse services to increment and better accessibility for persons in the criminal justice arrangement through diversion programs and programs to reduce backsliding from the jail. GCC provides services to connect with persons entering the criminal justice, persons incarcerated, and persons released from the criminal justice system past focusing on strengths of the person in recovery and using testify based models designed specifically for this population. Target population includes individuals who accept been adjudicated Incompetent to Proceed due to mental illness, incarcerated persons with a substance abuse or co-occurring disorder, incarcerated persons due to exist released with a substance corruption or co-occurring disorder and persons in a country forensic or civil treatment facility. Criminal Justice and Diversion Services include:

• Forensic Instance Management
• Jail Diversion services
• Competency restoration evaluation and training
• Jail Incarceration Program (JIP)
• Other Side of the Fence (Offender Reentry Plan)
• Homeless outreach and HIV testing and counseling
• Trauma support and treatment

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Guidance/Intendance Eye (GCC) - Children and Family Services

Children and Family Services of the Guidance/Intendance Middle works in collaboration and partnership with community- based agencies to enhance the abilities of families to access community resources and support children's ability to remain in the community. GCC provides a full range of mental health and substance abuse community-based services including mental health and substance abuse services for children and adults at hazard of being placed in a more than restrictive environment and/or those who have a mental wellness or substance abuse disorder. Children'southward services are for children 0-18 yrs. Children and Family Services include:

• Assessment and evaluation
• In home and community family therapy
• Family intervention services (FIS)
• Family trauma services
• School based services
• Substance abuse prevention, intervention, outreach and instruction services
• Case Management

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Guidance/Care Centre (GCC) - Personal Growth Center (PGC) - Psychosocial Rehabilitation/Consumer Run Services

Personal Growth Center of the Guidance/Intendance Eye develops and increases a sense of purpose, value and promise for individuals with astringent and persistent mental illness. The Eye supports recovery by encouraging members to motility ahead with their lives and to build an environment of support and relationships. PGC offers a friendly, safe environment for daily activities and socialization. It is a place for peer support and assistance in locating other services in the community and a way to contribute to the community by helping others. Persons may participate by dropping in for dejeuner or washing their clothes, by joining a meaningful work group, or attending/instruction an educational class. PGC activities include:

• Supported employment
• Peer support and case management
• Psychoeducation and advocacy classes including WRAP
• SOAR - access to disability do good awarding process
• Social activities
• Wellness teaching

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Guidance/Intendance Center (GCC) - Transportation Programme

Transportation program at GCC increases access to health care and improves physical connectivity to other services for persons living in the Keys. GCC Transportation is the designated Community Transportation Coordinator (CTC), the designated Medicaid Coordinator and the vendor contractor for Baker -Marchman Act transportation for Monroe County. As the CTC, GCC is responsible for all Florida Keys citizens who are transportation disadvantaged. As the Baker-Marchman transportation vendor, GCC dispatches special equipped vehicles to send persons to local receiving facilities and country treatment.

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Guidance/Care Centre (GCC) - Medical/Psychiatric Program

Medical/Psychiatric Plan at GCC improves the level of performance, prevents the further deterioration of symptoms, and increases the knowledge of clients and community through medical/psychiatric interventions. Medical/Psychiatric program offer psychiatric evaluations, medication direction, customer information, and community consultation to deal with the medical aspects of mental wellness and substance abuse issues. Medical/Psychiatric services include:

• Baker Deed Receiving Facility
• Crisis Stabilization Unit
• Marchman Act Detox Facility
• Mental Health Residential beds
• Discharge planning and coordination
• Outpatient Psychiatric services
• Off site Psychiatric services / Detention Facility/Schools
• Medication Assistance Programs: Indigent Drug Program, Patient Assistance Plan, Samples

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Guidance/Care Center (GCC) - The Heron - Assisted Living Facility Plan

The Heron was opened in 1988 in response to the needs of local families and is a 16 bed Assisted Living Facility with a limited mental health license (#AL8523). Located in Marathon, the Heron provides room and board along with supportive services including transportation, medication management, social activities and links to mental health professionals. Services include:

• Affordable Housing Including iii Meals a Day and Snacks
• 24 Hour Availability of Staff
• Furnished Rooms
• Supportive Services

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