Apex Services

Child/Adolescent PRP

Child/Adolescent (PRP) focuses on maladaptive behaviors, daily living, social skills, and healthy family relationships. Psychiatric rehabilit-ation promotes recovery, full community integration, and improved quality of life for persons who have been diagnosed with any mental health condition that seriously impairs their ability to lead meaningful lives.

Life Skills
  • Age-appropriate self care skills
  • The living environment
  • Community awareness
  • Mobility skills
  • Money management
  • Accessing entitlements
  • Activities that support the client’s interest
  • Conflict resolution
  • Anger management
  • Address Mental Health diagnoses
  • Interactive skills with peers and authority figures
  • Maintaining personal living space
  • Maintaining age-appropriate boundaries
  • Maintaining personal safety in a social environment
  • Time management
  • Assisting with medication services
  • Personal Hygiene/Grooming
  • Nutrition/Dietary planning and food preparation
Growth Skills
  • Supportive & educational services for students, youth and their parents
  • Independent living skills and IEP/ support and advocacy, transitional age youth support services
  • Health promotion and training, especially for children and parents with IEP students in transition (i.e. IEP treatment plan, challenges, advocacy in family/home/school dynamics, student/ teacher interaction and support, etc.)
  • Safe sex and prevention as a tool to keep youth focused on self-care and wellness
  • Ensuring parents, youth and special needs children are aware of and have access to entitlements, educational development, career development and other available benefits
  • Strengthening communication skills between parents/teachers and between children, parents and other adults
  • Promote the recovery and self-determination process for youth to fully develop to the maximum potential
  • Rehabilitation assessment and evaluation to identify strengths, skills and needs
  • Formulating goals for youth with special needs to proactively address those needs
  • Facilitate development of age appropriate daily living and social skills
  • Promote use of community resources by families
  • Medication education and monitoring as needed
  • Reduce inpatient hospitalizations and out of home placements for youth
  • Decreasing frustration with school system when trying to meet educational needs and developmental need of transitional age youth
  • Promoting education and implementing IEP goals into individualized comprehensive treatment plan
  • Coping skills training (learning how to Self Manage a diagnosis)
  • Organizational skills management
  • Positive problem solving methods
  • Relationship building and self-esteem
  • Personal awareness and boundaries
  • Childhood behavioral disorders and sensitivity to kids who live with them
  • Personal hygiene and nutrition

Substance Abuse Treatment

Intensive Outpatient Treatment “IOP” as a primary treatment program for those who do not need medically-supervised detox. The Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) is designed for people who are struggling with problems associated with addictions and sunbstance use

Treatment Details
  • Medication Assisted Treatment (Suboxone)
  • Mental health treatment
  • Group Therapy (NA & SA group meetings)
  • One-on-One counseling for those with co-occurring disorders associated with substance use, and those who have Medical Assistance.

Adult PRP

Adult PRP incorporates the collab-oration between the therapist and rehabilitation coordinator to promote positive behaviors and interactions, while decreasing negative behaviors. The PRP Coordinators provide service visits with clients working on goal-oriented behavior approximately once per week. Group sessions for PRP services are held regularly on site.

Life Skills
  • Emotional Self-Management
  • Effective coping strategies
  • ADL’s
  • Independent Living
  • Housing assistance
  • Employment
  • Self Advocacy
Growth Skills
  • Self Administration and Management of Medications
  • Banking and Budgeting
  • Mobility and Transportation
  • Social Relationships
  • Leisure activities
  • Education and Vocational Training

Explanation of Services

What does PRP stand for? PRP stands for Psychiatric Rehabilitation Program

What is PRP? Psychiatric Rehabilitation promotes recovery, full community integration, and improved quality of life for persons who have been diagnosed with any mental health condition that seriously impairs their ability to lead meaningful lives. Psychiatric rehabilitation services are collaborative, person directed and individualized. These services are an essential element of the health care and human services spectrum, and should be evidence-based. They focus on helping individuals develop skills and access resources needed to increase their capacity to be successful and satisfied in the living, working, learning and social environments of their choice. (Anthony and Farakas, 2009, pg. 9)

How did I meet the requirements for PRP? You were referred for services by a licensed mental health professional and have identified with particular mental and emotional health challenges that has been approved by The Department of Mental Health and Hygiene.

What does PRP cost me? Nothing, it is paid for by your medical insurance through Medical Assistance.

What do I have to do to receive services? Be seen for at least 2x per month for mental health services. It can be a combination of any of the services listed below. Individual Therapy, Group Therapy, Family Therapy, Medication Management

How do I participate? (Transportation provided as needed)

For Children and Adolescents (6-17) For Adults (18 and older)

  • Meet with your counselor 4x per month
  • Meet with your counselor 6x per month
  • Attend 1 group session per month
  • Attend 1 group session per month
  • Attend at least 1 session on-site at our agency
  • Attend at least 1 session on-site at our agency

What does my counselor assist with? Community Advocates use your treatment plan from therapy and assist you with creating goals that will address the current symptoms of your diagnosis. They also assist consumers with identifying community resources and provide support for accessing those services. Community resources include but not limited to shelter services, food banks, SSI, SSA, resume building etc.

What are mental health services? Mental Health Services are defined as “assessment, diagnosis, treatment or counseling in a professional relationship to assist an individual or group in alleviating mental or emotional illness, symptoms, conditions or disorders.”

How did I meet the requirements for mental health services? You can be referred for mental health services by a loved one, medical professional, educational professional, community support or yourself if you feel you are having feelings or thoughts that prevent you from handling everyday life.

What do I have to do to receive services? Complete a referral and have mental health and/or psychiatric assessment completed.

What does PRP cost me? Nothing, it is paid for by your medical insurance through Medical Assistance.

How do I participate? Attend sessions as scheduled either for: Individual Therapy, Group Therapy, Family Therapy, Medication Management

What is a mental health service provider? Mental Health Services Provider and Individuals, licensed, who perform mental health services including “a licensed social worker, licensed professional counselor, a physician who practices medicine, psychologist offering psychological services and nurses who provide mental health services to patients

Positive Results

How Do I Know if

Apex Wellness is Right for Me?

Apex Wellness Group is a client focused, family centered and strength-based approach to offering a continuum of quality care to individuals who are affected with mental and behavioral health disorders. We understand that everyone’s path to wellness looks differently as everyone heals in their own unique way and time.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is PRP in mental health?
Psychiatric Rehabilitation. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Program, which is commonly called PRP, provides individualized care to people with Mental Disorders. Adult participants to PRP also include individuals that have “the other dual diagnosis” of Intellectual or Developmental Disabilities (IDD) and Mental Disorders.
How do I get referred for services?
Anyone can make a referral. You can refer yourself by calling the office at 443-708-2352 and speaking to one of our intake workers. Or you can fill out a form and send it to our office. Many of our referrals come from other agencies, therapist and schools.
What is mental health?
Mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, and act. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make choices. Mental health is important at every stage of life, from childhood and adolescence through adulthood.

Over the course of your life, if you experience mental health problems, your thinking, mood and behavior could be affected

What treatment options are available?
Just as there are different types of medications for physical illness, different treatment options are available for individuals with mental illness. Treatment works differently for different people, so it is important to find what works best for you or your child.
What should I know before I start taking any new medications?
The best source of information regarding medications is the physician prescribing them. He or she should be able to answer questions such as:

  • What is the medication supposed to do?
  • When should it begin to take effect, and how will I know when it is effective?
  • How is the medication taken and for how long?
  • What food, drinks, other medicines, and activities should be avoided while taking this medication?
  • What are the side effects and what should be done if they occur?
  • What do I do if a dose is missed?
  • Is there any written information available about this medication?
  • Are there other medications that might be appropriate? If so, why do you prefer the one you have chosen?
  • How do you monitor medications and what symptoms indicate that they should be raised, lowered, or changed?

All medications should be taken as directed. Most medications for mental illnesses do not work when taken irregularly, and extra doses can cause severe, sometimes dangerous side effects. Many psychiatric medications begin to have a beneficial effect only after they have been taken for several weeks.

How long will I be receiving services?
This depends on your treatment needs and goals. You and your therapist/community advocate will develop a treatment plan with goals that you desire to achieve. During this time a projected discharge date will be identified. However, that date is always subject to change if needed.

Get the Help You or Your Loved One Needs

Contact

Call

(443) 708-2352

Email

info@apex-wellness.com

Address

118 E. 25th Suite 2
Baltimore, Md 21218

Hours

Mon – Fri: 9am – 5pm
Saturday: Appointment Only