Bridgeway emphasizes vocational development as a crucial ingredient in the rehabilitation and recovery of people who have mental illness. Work is important, not only as a means of financial support, but as a self-esteem builder. Bridgeway uses the Supported Employment model of services which is recognized as the best practice to assist people who have mental health disabilities to get jobs.

WHEN YOU NEED:

Crisis intervention - Stabilization - Crisis Hotline - Family Crisis Services - Mobile Outreach

Mobile outreach to all those in Somerset County experiencing acute psychiatric distress.
Also providing traumatic incident debriefing.

Services include:

• rapid mobile outreach focused on early intervention, least restrictive crisis intervention and hospital diversion
• a community based psychiatric emergency screening service center that will include a “Living Room” model of care for the provision of crisis intervention services, planning, and follow-up appointments
• use of flexible follow-up PESS services, on-site and in-vivo, to ensure that individuals receive crisis intervention services while they are awaiting appointments with community providers or if they fail to keep the appointment and need an additional referral option