PROGRAMS

The OMNI Resource Center offers peer-led programs promoting wellness and recovery, as well as recreational and social opportunities. Wellness programs are free and open to anyone with mental health challenges. Programs are also offered off-site at other community locations. No referral is necessary.

Interim’s Community Housing program offers permanent, affordable supportive housing in a variety of locations for over 150 residents. Housing options include six and eight-bedroom cooperative group residences, studios and one and two-bedroom apartments. Supportive services include case management and mental health services.

Manzanita Crisis Residential Programs offer short- term crisis residential treatment. The residential program model is community-based alternative to inpatient psychiatric care for people experiencing a mental health crisis. The maximum stay is 30 days. Interim has 28 beds at two facilities, one in Salinas and one in Monterey.

The program provides recovery in a structured, non-institutional, home-like environment. Our goal is to help clients resolve the crisis and learn how to avoid a recurrence.

The day program works on developing skills to cope with mental illness, including managing symptoms, stress and anger, health, nutrition, hygiene and drug and alcohol education. Clients also explore areas of personal development, including creative writing and improving self-esteem.

Bridge House is a 14-bed transitional residential treatment program designed to meet the needs of adults in recovery from both a mental illness and a substance use disorder. Residents of Bridge House attend the Wellness and Recovery Academy, which is an outpatient Harm Reduction psychotherapy and social rehabilitation program for adults with co-occurring serious mental illness and substance use disorders. The program is staffed with mental health clinicians and substance use disorder specialists. The program assists clients in developing dual recovery skills, improving successful community living, and engaging in harm reduction strategies based on consumers’ individual substance use goals. Staff provide individual and group psychotherapy and counseling and other activities, using the evidenced based practices of Motivational Interviewing, Trauma Informed Care, and Harm Reduction. Staff also provide clinical mental health assessment/evaluation, rehabilitation, and mental health services.

Keep It Real (formerly Dual Recovery Services) and Outreach and Aftercare Services offer community-based support services for individuals with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders who are in recovery. Group and individual counseling, peer support and social, educational and recreational activities are designed to help people attain and maintain a clean and sober life style.

Our MCHOME program provides outreach, housing and intensive, integrated services to homeless adults with psychiatric disabilities.

The program model follows a ‘whatever it takes’ approach to moving people off the streets. Staff first works on establishing trust while persuading clients to accept shelter or housing. Safety in shelter or housing creates a strong foundation for recovery to succeed.

MCHOME’s goal is to move homeless individuals with psychiatric disabilities off the street and into housing, permanently.

Interim’s Supported Employment Services (SEES) program provides a wide range of opportunities for adults with mental illness who are seeking employment. To help clients obtain work, SEES provides career/vocational counseling, job development and coaching.

Our Workforce Education and Training (WET) program supports mental health clients and family members who work in the public mental health system by providing specialized training and services.

Interim employs approximately 50 mental health consumers to perform essential tasks in the areas of peer leadership, outreach and support, wellness navigation, landscaping maintenance, clerical and food service.

Success Over Stigma (SOS) is a community advocacy and educational outreach program designed to combat the three most prevalent forms of stigma: community perception, internal stigma and external stigma.

This is accomplished by recruiting and training mental health clients to share their successful stories of recovery with their peers and the community.

SOS speakers tell their stories to schools, businesses, civic groups and faith communities, helping to educate the public about the obstacles they have faced in their personal and professional lives, as well as their success in overcoming those obstacles. They also serve as speakers at inpatient psychiatric units, spreading the hopeful message that recovery is an attainable goal.

ACT assists and provides services to adults with serious and persistent mental illness in the community where they live.  This bilingual, culturally informed team, consisting of clinicians, nursing staff, a substance use disorder specialist, wellness navigators and other support personnel provide crisis care, counseling, case management and other services to assist adults and their families primarily residing in Salinas and South Monterey County, with an emphasis on engaging with them and connecting them to mental health services. The team is targeted to serve individuals who are not easily engaged in services and who have used in-patient mental health services but are not engaged in on-going treatment in the community.

Choices is a short term (up to 90 days) Intensive Day Treatment Program located at the Pajaro Street Wellness Center in Salinas and is designed to serve adults diagnosed with serious mental illness who experience hospitalizations for mental health reasons and need support to manage their mental health symptoms and emotions. The primary goal of the Choices program is to assist clients in preventing future psychiatric hospitalizations. At Choices, participants connect with peers in a therapeutic group setting where they learn symptom management skills and gain support in maintaining their mental health.