 
The Abbe Center
for community mental health is an outpatient treatment center
where qualified and caring professionals utilize a team approach to
provide services to meet the mental health needs of individuals and the
community. Since 1949, the Abbe
center has served as the premier provider of mental health services in
Linn County, Iowa and the surrounding area. Our licensed professionals
work as a team to provide diagnostic and treatment services. Team members
include psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, registered nurses,
mental health counselors, and marriage and family therapists. Our team
approach facilitates the best possible outcomes for treatment of
individual needs by making a variety of professionals with specialized
skills accessible to our clients. We offer an array of mental health
services designed to help clients of any age (children, adolescents,
adults and older adults). Whether you're seeking evaluation and support
for adjustments to problems that affect personal family or work life, or
are in need of more extensive treatment for severe and persistent mental
illness, the Abbe center staff can help.
Our services
Outpatient
services include individual/family psychotherapy, group
therapy, assessment/evaluation, medication management,
consolidation/education, employee assistance programs, dual diagnosis,
outpatient transitional living, school-based programs and emergency
services.
Program of assertive community treatment (PACT)
- Abbe Center's multiple disciplinary team provides comprehensive
treatments for persons with chronic and persistent mental illness.
Services are individualized to meet the unique needs of each client and
are intended to be long-term, with the ability to rapidly increase or
decrease service, as individual requirements change. The PACT team
provides case management and direct support services.
Adult Day Treatment. Unique and
innovative programs are designed to assist persons with serious and
persistent mental illness to remain in the community or maintain social,
vocational, and family ties while receiving appropriate psychiatric
treatment. This approach encourages independent living and the development
of a stable and sufficient support network, providing a cost-effective
alternative to traditionally hospitalized patients.
Transitional Living Services are
designed for persons with chronic debilitating mental illness who are
leaving institutional care and beginning community living. A linked
service delivery system provides clients with intensive on-site assistance
in a natural setting, on a short-term basis. As clients move towards self
sufficiency, assistance is provided in obtaining independent housing in
the community and arranging for follow-up support services.
Community support program - Working
with clients in the home, on-site or in community settings, Abbe Center
staff coordinate services necessary for persons with serious and
persistent mental illness to function within the community. Services
include outreach efforts, crisis intervention, referrals to community
resources, illness and medication education and individual group skill
building.
Case management services as a valuable
resource in effectively coordinating care with other care providers,
payers and human service agencies. Community collaboration ensures that
clients flow seamlessly through a continuum of care that best meets their
individual needs and maximizes treatment success.
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