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Our
Place, CBRF
Green
Bay area
Our
Place is a Class AA, Community Based Residential Facility (CBRF), located in
Green Bay, Wisconsin (Brown County). The facility has a warm and friendly
environment, serving up to 18 adult residents with mental or emotional
disorders, who have difficulty caring for themselves on their own. Services
are designed to reduce or stabilize psychiatric symptoms, increase
psychosocial functioning and community integration, and improve the quality
of life for those in our care.
Services
include:
- Client assessment prior to admission to identify specific needs and
abilities.
- Development of an individualized service plan for each resident with
family and guardian involvement encouraged.
- Ongoing case management services provided on-site by trained social
workers.
- Supervision of resident activities 24 hours a day.
- On-going communication with residents regarding applicable community
resources, services, and programs.
- Scheduled weekly leisure activities to promote interaction and
camaraderie among residents.
- Encouragement of family visits and assistance with arranging visits
as needed.
- Arrangement for transportation of residents to medical appointments,
work, training programs, religious services, and community
activities
as needed.
- Annual health assessments if the resident sees his/her physician
less than twice per year.
- Monitoring and administration of all client medication. Residents
with the ability to self-administer their medication are encouraged to
demonstrate this skill.
- Instruction, as needed, in areas related to self-care such as
eating, personal hygiene, dressing, grooming, etc.
- Independent living skills instruction including money management,
food preparation, laundry, cleaning, use of public transportation,
shopping and vocational skills.
- Opportunities to improve social skills, communication techniques and
strengthen personal relationships through a combination of group
and individual activities.
- Additional mental health services from Brown County or private
clinics in the community as needed.
For
more information about Our Place, contact Tana Koss at 920-436-4360 ext.
1252 or tkoss@familyservicesnew.org.
View an Our Place brochure
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