Psychiatric Recovery at Stepping Stones Recovery Center

Stepping Stones provides adult group education to individuals who need help managing the symptoms of serious mental illness. Services include pre-vocational units that teach teamwork, along with specialized educational groups focusing on health and wellness, exercise, nutrition, independent living skills, and leisure skills. Community integration trips are also an important part of the education process. A team of trained staff work side by side with individuals to help them achieve treatment goals and to increase quality of life.
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Mental Health Supports at Oasis

Oasis offers Mental Health Supports to adults with serious mental illness. A qualified staff member works one on one with individuals to teach them how to develop coping skills, access community resources, develop a natural support system, and locate safe and affordable housing. Staff members also teach cooking skills, laundry and cleaning skills, nutrition, health and safety, budgeting skills, and community leisure skills. Individuals work toward attaining their goal of independence in the community.
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Recovery Care Coordination

Recovery Care Coordination provides guidance for individuals with serious mental illness who are in recovery. Services teach individuals to manage symptoms, recognize early warning signs, and anticipate stressors. Services provide crisis intervention, supportive counseling, and access to needed resources while helping to prevent hospitalization, and teaching individuals how to maintain a natural support system.
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Mental Health Outpatient Services

Mental Health Outpatient Services are designed to provide an array of outpatient services for individuals who’s emotional and mental health challenges have caused significant impairment in social, vocational, educational and/or family functioning but who do not require hospitalization. A variety of groups, as well as individual and family centered services, are available and are chosen according to a customized plan which focuses on the needs of each individual.
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Autism Services and Other Related Disorders

Highlands Community Services is on the cutting edge of treatment for those with Autism and Autism related disorders. Services offered include, but aren’t limited to, Infant & Toddler Connection, Sensory Integration Therapy, Social Skills Group, Play Therapy, Psychiatric Evaluation & Medication Management, and more.
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Veterans Services

In collaboration with the Wounded Warrior Program, Highlands Community Services provides mental health services to the brave men and women who have served our military.
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Project Jane Domestic Violence Services

Project Jane provides an array of services for victims of domestic/sexual violence and their dependent children. Services also provide necessary clinical interventions for identified perpetrators of the abuse.  The project also addresses the co-occurring prevalence of domestic violence and substance abuse within the family setting. Please refer to the Other Resources tab for more helpful websites regarding Domestic Violence.
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Crisis Stabilization at Highlands Home Recovery Center

Highlands Home Recovery Center provides Crisis Stabilization Services for persons at risk of hospitalization, jail or homelessness.  The focus is on assisting individuals in recovery to manage their symptoms, decrease stressors, and increase supports by focusing on what's strong, not what's wrong.
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Psychiatric Services

Highlands Community Service Psychiatric Services provide timely and thorough clinical intakes and access to all services, as well as medication consultations with our qualified psychiatrists and nurse practitioners.
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Peer Support Services

Peer Support Services are offered by consumers who have completed a training program through the Virginia Human Services Training Program in Charlottesville, VA. They have also been trained as WRAP facilitators and offer Wellness Recovery Action Training to people in the Care Coordination Department. Two men who make up this unit also visit Southwest Virginia Mental Health Center every Friday to visit with patients from the Highlands catchment area, remind them they are not forgotten and stimulate them to embrace their recovery by telling them about services available back home.
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