The services in these settings are aimed at providing children, adolescents, and adults with challenging environments for growth and development, while allowing them the freedom of living in their home communities. Residential facilities such as Pasadena Cottages, Donsky House, and Barnard Street House are found throughout Harris County. A position in a vocational service means you would work at job sites and at facilities such as Northwest Employment Center, Jackson Street Fairweather Lodge or Pyramid House, to name only a few. As a member of the vocational services team you will offer employment and psychosocial services. These programs enable learning or relearning of skills that have been affected by the individual's mental illness or mental retardation.
Vocational programs encourage members to re-enter the mainstream of community living.
As a member of an outreach program, you may work in major downtown shelters, visit consumers' homes or travel in vans to serve the homeless. Staff provide assessment, psychological evaluations, and case management services. At the Crisis Center, staff provide emergency evaluation and stabilization of person experiencing a mental health crisis. In the clinic environment, you will be involved in the provision of diagnostic and treatment services including medication evaluation and management, individual and group therapy, and psychosocial programing. Children are also provided with services at the Juvenile Detention Facility Building.