RESIDENTIAL CARE AND TREATMENT FOR THE ADULT MENTALLY ILL
The Mental Health Co-op is a premier residential treatment program and ongoing care (assisted living) program for the adult mentally ill in the U.S. Located in Houston, Texas.
A residential program for adults age 18 and older who have may have any one or combination of the following:
- emerging adult disorder - problems of transitioning from adolescence to young adulthood
- schizophrenia or schizo-affective disorders
- bipolar disorders
- addiction disorders associated with other mental health disorders
- obsessive-compulsive disorders
- borderline and other personality disorders
Ongoing Care Services - all ages
- all the above diagnoses plus closed head injury.
Treatment Services focus on a time oriented period of remedial and rehabilitation services with the objective of preparing residents for return to independent living, work, school, relationships (average length of treatment program is 4 months)
Ongoing Care Services is not time oriented and may be for short term or long term care for indivduals who may never become independent in their social/emotional functioning (while some residents are only in residential care for a few months, the average time on campus for the 30 adults currently in Ongoing Care is a little over 14 years).
There are 20 beds for Treatment residents and 30 beds for Ongoing Care residents; and an additional 20 beds in the agency Independent Living Program, an off campus supportive living opportunity for residents who want to extend their time in treatment in a non-residential status.
The agency was founded by Grover C. Shaunty, MSW in the early 1960s and has been in the Texas location since 1981.
