The Anita Jackson House (AJH) provides adults with severe and persistent mental illness on-site residential case management services within a highly structured, staffed group living experience that prepares clients for a more independent living situation while promoting autonomy and recovery.
AJH is a fourteen-bed, intensively staffed group home for adults with severe and persistent mental illness who require a highly structured and supportive residential treatment environment. The facility provides twenty-four hour awake coverage on a three-shift basis. House schedule, routines, and activities are focused on the functional level and needs of this population.
Staff attempt to provide an environment predicated upon the recovery and rehabilitation model which emphasizes residents learning skills and acquiring support which enable them to function successfully and satisfactorily in their environment of choice with the lease amount of professional support and intervention. Services include: case management and individualized treatment planning, access to and use of medical and dental services, psychiatric services, nursing consultation and medication monitoring, symptom assessment, management and supportive counseling, skill building and assistance with personal hygiene, financial management, vocational assessment and skill building opportunities, and many others.