New Center Community Mental Health

About

New Center Community Services is dedicated to improving the mental health of Wayne County residents with facilities in Detroit and Highland Park.

Mission

Our Mission

New Center Community Services is committed to providing and promoting quality behavioral health services in a caring and safe environment.

Our Vision

New Center Community Services is the premiere behavioral health organization for consumers, staff, and the community.

We strive for continuous quality improvement through efficient, effective processes and measurable performance outcomes for all consumers.

We accomplish this through teamwork and collaboration while empowering consumers, staff, and the community.

Our Values
•Dignity – Committed to serving with integrity, respect and sensitivity
•Excellence – Consistently exceeding expectations
•Innovation – Creating opportunities for the future
•Quality – Meeting consumer expectations every time

Products

New Center currently provides the following programs and services:

Access and Intake: Point of entry, screening, assessment and evaluation.

Adult Outpatient Program (AOP): Assists individuals and families towards behavioral stabilization.

Assertive Community Treatment (ACT): Highly intensive (4-5 times per week) home–based treatment for consumers with repeated hospitalizations.

Certified Peer Support: State-trained consumer professionals play a key role in sharing their “lived experience” with mental illness with other consumers.

Children and Adolescents Services: Treatment for severely emotionally disturbed children aged 5-17 who may be experiencing difficulty in: self-care, self-direction; social functioning; learning and/or ability to perform in an educational setting; or the capacity to function within a family/caregiver environment.

Co-located Services: Collaboration with Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) and schools to integrate mental health with physical health and academic instruction.

Intensive Day Treatment (IDT): Intensive treatment (2-4 times weekly) designed to support consumers in better management of their illness with the goal of achieving and maintaining an optimal level of functioning.

Medication Clinic: For more stable consumers, monthly monitoring of physical and mental health and adjustment of medications as appropriate.

Partial Hospitalization (PHP): Short-term, highly-intensive treatment that provides skills and daily support to consumers at highest risk for hospitalization.

Permanent Supportive Housing: Secures safe, affordable and independent housing for consumers ready to transition out of adult foster care homes.

Phoenix Friendship House: A psychosocial rehabilitation program that focuses on work and community as healing factors, offering employment, social support, and recreation in a “clubhouse” setting.

Project Resilience: Children ages 6-12 spend the summer receiving instruction in the areas of self-esteem, resilient living, violence prevention, goal setting, problem-solving and confidence building.

Residential/Case Management: Assistance obtaining community resources to advance academic, employment and social success.

Supported Employment: Assistance finding and maintaining competitive employment.

Training Center: An academic enrichment and employment training facility that prepares consumers for independent employment and educational advancement.