Piedmont Community Services helps individuals, families, and the community enhance their quality of life by providing a highly effective continuum of behavioral health services including prevention, treatment, education, and support within available resources.

What We Do:

Piedmont Community Services provides Mental Health, Mental Retardation, and Substance Abuse Services to the citizen of Martinsville, Henry County, Franklin County, and Patrick County.

Clinical Services 

Crisis Intake Services
Members of the clinical staff are trained and experienced in psychiatric crisis assessment, and they are available Monday through Friday, during regular business hours, to provide walk-in or telephone crisis assessment.  In addition, these staff also take new referrals for outpatient services and schedule intake appointments.  Intakes are assigned to counselors based on age, present problem, and health insurance requirements. 
 
Counseling Services
This program provides individual, group, and family counseling services.  It also provides integrated mental health, substance abuse, and mental retardation services.  Other services include:  crisis intake, assessment and referral, psychiatric medication, outpatient counseling, mental health and mental retardation services.
 
Case Management Services
These services are provided to adults and children with a mental health illness.  Case Managers seek to link recipients to a comprehensive set of services designed to help them stay in the community and achieve a maximum quality of life.
 
After Hours Crisis Services
Twenty-four (24) hours, 7 days a week after hours crisis services are offered for psychiatric emergency services.  CONTACT pages a worker on duty and puts them in touch with the consumer to assess what psychiatric services are needed.
 
Psychiatric Services
Psychiatric assessment, medication maintenance, and state aftercare pharmacy services are available.  Contract psychiatrists and psychiatric nurses are available to provide these services. 
 
Mental Health Support
This service is targeted at adults with severe mental illness and a history of at least one psychiatric hospitalization.  It seeks to provide consumers with training in areas of activities of daily living, as well as developing a health and better understanding of psychiatric illnesses.
 
Substance Abuse
This program provides residential, intensive outpatient and case management services to the substance abuse population.  Residential services include group home (Passages), two Oxford House model programs, contractual services, and supervised apartments for women.
 
Detoxification
Detoxification services are provided for medical or social purposes to medically indigent persons.  Services are provided for inpatient substance abuse treatment.  These services are provided generally for individuals also needing an inpatient stay beyond detoxification.

Youth and Prevention Programs

Crisis Intake Services
Members of the clinical staff are trained and experienced in psychiatric crisis assessment, and they are available Monday through Friday, during regular business hours, to provide walk-in or telephone crisis assessment.  In addition, these staff also take new referrals for outpatient services and schedule intake appointments.  Intakes are assigned to counselors based on age, present problem, and health insurance requirements. 

Prevention Services
Prevention is aimed at reducing the incidence of mental illness, mental retardation, and substance abuse. 
Services include:  providing information and education, community awareness events, health fairs, parenting classes, coping skills training, support groups, alcohol, tobacco and drug-events, problem identification and referral, community-based processes, multi-agency collaboration.
 
Healthy Families - West Piedmont
This program offers home-based services to first-time mothers and their children before birth to the child's fifth birthday.  Services include:  assessment, information, referral, education, parental development, child development, parenting skills, case management, monitoring programs, linking with community resources, collaborating with other agencies, supportive counseling.
 
Infant-Parent Program
Early intervention services are offered to families and their children birth to three years of age who have developmental delays or disabilities.  Services include:  developmental screenings and assessments, referrals to occupational, speech, physical therapy, referrals to schools, referrals to medical professionals, family support, equipment and toys, educational resources, respite, social and educational activities.
 
Outpatient Services
The mission of outpatient services is to offer a full range of quality services to children and their families.  Services include:  intake assessments, psychological testing, medication evaluation and monitoring, play therapy, treatment groups, individual and family therapy, case management, drug screening, behavioral specialist services.
 
Intensive In-Home
This is a time-limited service, usually 3-6 months, that is delivered primarily in the home of a child or adolescent who, due to a DSM-IV diagnosis, is at risk of being moved into an out-of-home placement or being transitioned to home from an out-of-home placement.
 
New Beginnings
This is an intensive outpatient treatment program designed for adolescents between the ages of 13 and 18 who may be at risk of developing substance abuse disorders, school failures, serious emotional disturbances, or other complications which may lead to legal and social services involvement.
 
Second Chances
This is an inexpensive 6-week substance abuse program that is designed to work with the at-risk adolescents between the ages of 12 and 18 who may have experienced negative consequences due to alcohol and drug use, and who do not yet demonstrate the need for chemical dependency treatment.

Community Support

Case Management
Case management is a support system that assists consumers who are mentally retarded to plan and coordinate services.  The consumer is assessed for needs, and a service plan is developed to address their needs.  These services are coordinated and monitored by the case manager who assures that the consumer is receiving appropriate services.  If necessary services do not exist, the case manager advocates for the establishment of services.
 
Supported Living / In-Home
These are licensed services provided to consumers in a small living arrangement, usually 2-3 consumers living in a shared home or apartment, or supportive and training services provided to a private home environment.  These individuals also receive a vast array of other services from PCS as well as services from our private affiliates, especially work and day support services.  PCS has successfully helped transition consumers back into the community after long-term placements, most often at stats training centers.  These services allow individuals to return to their own communities or prevent a more costly and disruptive situation from occurring.
 
Psychosocial Rehabilitation - Horizons
There are three psychosocial programs, referred to as "Horizons", located in Martinsville, Rocky Mount and Stuart.  These programs are for adults with serious mental illnesses and are part of a comprehensive individualized mental health treatment plan developed to support an array of services including: counseling, rehabilitation, case management, crisis services, housing, and supported employment.  Fewer psychiatric hospitalizations and recovery are the goals of every person with mental illness.  Focus is upon strengthening each consumer's ability to manage symptoms of their mental illness.  Emphasis is also placed upon supporting individuals regaining skills needed to live and socialize successfully in the community.
 
Residential Services
Piedmont Community Services owns and operates apartments for consumers in Franklin and Henry Counties who are in need of temporary housing or long-term residence because of their disability, such as mental health, mental retardation, and/or substance abuse problems.  These consumers are monitored very closely and often receive case management services or supportive services designed to enable them to live as independently as possible.  These services are designed to help consumers integrate into the community.  In some instances, PCS fulfills the responsibility of acting as the landlord for a smaller number of consumers who do not require more intensive services.
 
Group Homes
Group homes provide congregate living arrangements to a small group of adult consumers with recognized developmental disabilities.  Consumers receive primary care, which is comprised of room, board, and general supervision through licensed programs operated by PCS.  In addition, they receive assistance training, and specialized supervision according to their individual support needs and preferences.  Each resident is encouraged to be as independent as possible with daily living activities, hopefully to achieve an improved quality of life through integration in community activities.