Adult Mental Health Outpatient Service at New Horizons is dedicated to helping consumers through age appropriate, culturally sensitive education, treatment and habilitation that respect dignity and individuality. Success is attained through quick response and efficiency in meeting the needs of consumers and their families and through the participation of consumers and families in planning and carrying out individual treatment plans.

Adult Mental Health Outpatient Service is designed to meet the needs of the individual as thoroughly as possible so consumers can remain in their community. When the needs of consumers are greater than can be met in the outpatient setting, appropriate referrals are made.

Admissions Criteria:

	At Least 18 years of age
	Meets DSM-IV diagnostic criteria for a mental disorder
	Psychiatric symptoms require and will respond to therapeutic intervention
	The consumer and/or support system exhibit the capacity to make desired behavioral changes
	The consumer demonstrates a need for treatment to maintain functioning in the community, to prevent movement toward a higher, more intensive level of care

Exclusions Criteria:

	No evidence of mental health symptoms
	Does not require a greater or lesser level of intensity of care

Services

	Screening and Assessment
	Diagnostic Assessment
	Crisis Intervention (24 hour)
	Physician Assessment and Care
	Service Coordination
	Individual, Family, and Group Counseling
	Medication Training
	Medication Administration
	Medication Monitoring
	Indigent Medication Program
	Consumer and Family Education
	Nursing Assessment