Adult Groups

SOCIAL SKILLS AND SELF-ESTEEM

Man Cave – Young Men’s Group

Focus is to teach young men with special learning needs how to gain the confidence to engage in healthy and appropriate relationships by learning skills to improve their self-esteem, perspective-taking, conversation skills, and friendships. This group will improve problem-solving, social competence, emotion recognition, theory of mind skills, and will help clients gain knowledge of life changes. Most major plans accepted; co-pay may apply.

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STRESS MANAGEMENT AND WELLNESS

Art from the Heart (18+)

Art from the Heart will support the process of healing, clearing the mind, honoring self-expression, building self-esteem, gaining self-awareness, and developing coping skills to reduce anxiety and depression. Participants do not need any previous art experience to benefit from this group. Covered by Medicaid and most health plans; co-pay may apply.

Move Easy Chronic Pain Group

This Chronic Pain Management group will address topics including chronic pain self-management, understanding and managing common symptoms, tools for relaxation, exercise and nutrition, communication skills and more. Group is covered by Medicaid.

Healthy Relationships Group (Collaborative Care Group)

This group follows a 10-week curriculum on healthy relationships including topics such as communication, self-determination, boundaries, unhealthy signs of a relationship, dating, and respect. This group is held weekly. Covered by most health plans; co-pay may apply.

Mindful Meals: Eating with Intention (Integrated Care Group)

This 8-week group provides basic food education in a holistic and practical way for clients to learn foundational skills and concepts they can continue to build on, and put to use, as the course evolves. This course will emphasize empowerment and accessibility. Core concepts include nutrition, meal planning, food prep, behavior change, hands-on cooking skills and eating healthy on a budget. Classes will also include check-ins, interpersonal dynamics, reducing overwhelm and focus on mindfulness. Each session will include education, activities and cooking a healthy meal within a group setting. Covered by Medicaid. Additional payment options may also be available.

ILLNESS MANAGEMENT AND RECOVERY

The Way to Wellness – Illness Management and Recovery Group (Ages 18+)

Establish and reach personal recovery goals, gain confidence and increase self-awareness in personal choices, enhance coping skill use to reduce stress, symptoms, psychiatric and substance use relapse, and identify health ways to take care of oneself and live life in balance. The eleven topic areas include: recovery strategies, understanding mental illness and diagnoses, impact of stress vulnerability, building social supports, using medications effectively, impact of substance use, relapse prevention, coping with stress, coping with problems and symptoms, understanding the mental health system, and healthy lifestyles. Illness Management and Recovery (IMR) is an evidence-based practice that promotes hope, personal responsibility and solutions to manage and overcome impact of mental illness. Covered by Medicaid.

Dare to Begin you Transformation (DBT Group)

DBT or Dialectical Behavior Therapy, is an evidence-based therapeutic approach that is designed to teach effective life skills, from learning how to balance opposing ideas, to managing conflict in relationships, to finding peace within us. Covered by most health plans; co-pay may apply.

Holistic Habits (Integrated Care Group)

This group is an Illness Management and Recovery (IMR) group where participants will learn practical tips for mental and physical well-being. Following the evidenced-based practice of IMR, the group explores 10 core concepts of establishing/reaching goals, gaining confidence, increasing self-awareness, enhancing coping skills, and take care of oneself to create holistic habits. Covered by Medicaid.

Balanced Bunch IMR Group (Collaborative Care Group)

This group will teach the eleven core concepts of Illness Management and Recovery (IMR) to help individuals establish and reach personal recovery goals, gain confidence and increase self-awareness in their personal choices, enhance coping skill used to reduce stress, symptoms, psychiatric and substance use relapse, and identify healthy ways to take care of oneself and live life in balance. The eleven topic areas include: recovery strategies, understanding mental illness and diagnoses, impact of stress vulnerability, building social supports, using medications effectively, impact of substance use, relapse prevention, coping with stress, coping with problems and symptoms, understanding the mental health system, and healthy lifestyles. Covered by Medicaid.

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SUPPORT FOR SUBSTANCE USE RECOVERY

Staying on Track (Women ages 18+)

This Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) group for women will focus on reinforcing skills to maintain sobriety and manage co-occurring mental health symptoms. Participants will work to build on successes made in earlier recovery and gain support with facing challenges that may emerge in this stage of sobriety. The format of each group session will include check in, weekly topic and open discussion of recovery related issues for the purpose of mutual support from other women participants that emphasizes self-care, preventing relapse, and repairing domains of life that have been harmed through the process of addiction. Participants must have at least a year’s sobriety or have previously attended the CHANGES group in order to join the Staying On Track group. Covered by Medicaid and most health plans; co-pay may apply.