The Supported Employment unit provides comprehensive and individualized psychiatric, nursing and rehabilitation services. The rehabilitation services provide individualized assessment and job-seeking activities to consumers who desire employment in the community. The Special Needs Offenders Program provides comprehensive rehabilitation services for special needs offenders. These services are classified under the main categories for vocational and support services. The Assertive Community Treatment Team provides intensive aggressive outreach approaches which increase community tenure and quality of life for our consumers.
Emphasis is placed on in-vivo services provided in the natural environment.
The team provides comprehensive services to include psychiatric, nursing, case management, vocational, and housing interventions. These services are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week to consumers, families, and service providers. Skills training is provided to ensure the development of the necessary abilities to gain and maintain an improved quality of life, access to community resources, entitlements and to assure community inclusion. Teams of case managers are aligned with out-patient service units and provide the full array of case management services to consumers referred from Outpatient Mental Health treatment components. Continuity of Care services are coordinated between Vernon State Hospital and Bexar County Adult Detention Center and the criminal justice system.