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residential programs help move individuals and families toward greater
levels of independence.
MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES:
Crisis
Management & Intensive Care
Crisis Management and Intensive Care programs include
- Garden Place: Twelve-bed secure
residential treatment facility
- The Heeran Center
Residence:
Sixteen-bed high level care facility
- Royal Avenue Program: Twelve units for
individuals in crisis.
ShelterCare’s Crisis Management and
Intensive Care programs play a critical role in the system of care for
adults with severe and persistent mental illness (SPMI) in Lane County.
Short-term programs help prevent or shorten hospitalization and provide
a cost effective and appropriate level of care for individuals who are
in crisis, but do not require intensive treatment in a psychiatric
hospital setting.
Garden Place
3692 Hickory Avenue, Eugene, OR 97401
541-284-7800 FAX 541.284.7804
email: gardenplace@sheltercare.org
Contact: Robert Rogers, Program Manager
Garden Place is a 12-bed secure homelike residential treatment
facility. The program serves individuals who need extended periods of
care. In addition to traditional mental health treatment, this program
is being designed to provide extensive daily living training to
individuals who have been hospitalized for extended periods of time.
The goal of Garden Place is to place residents in a less restrictive
community setting within six months to a year. This innovative approach
will foster the greatest degree of independence possible in a caring
and supportive environment.
The Heeran Center Residence
2222 Coburg Road, Eugene, OR 97401
541.465.3323 FAX 541.465.3329
email: heeran@sheltercare.org
Contact: Paulette Montplaisir, Program Manager
The Heeran Center Residence (HCR) is a safe, structured
environment for persons with a mental illness who need a high level of
psychiatric care but do not require a hospital environment. The program
is a unique partnership between Lane County Mental Health and
ShelterCare. Sixteen adults diagnosed with a severe, persistent mental
illness are served. The program serves the Lane County Crisis system
with post-hospital acute care services for mental health clients who
require longer term stabilization services. The program provides meals,
24 hour awake staffing, and a daily regimen of therapeutic and skill
building activities.
The HCR schedule of therapeutic and recreational
activities is provided under the direction of Psychiatric nursing
staff. Program activities are designed to maximize stabilization and
rehabilitation. HCR has exceeded all clinical projections for effective
rehabilitation of mental health clients in crisis. Crisis residents now
return to the community after an average of 4 to 6 weeks in the HCR
program. Previous to this local option, crisis residents were
transported by police escort to the state hospital where stays extended
to six months. Equally remarkable is the observation that readmission
to psychiatric hospital care, within months of leaving the program, is
rare for those who have successfully completed the HCR program.
Most importantly, the program has provided Lane County
residents with a local, less drastic alternative to
institutionalization and hospitalization for mental illness
rehabilitation and crisis stabilization. With families nearby and with
a less institutional setting, the individuals served by the HCR program
benefit from an improved quality of care in a community setting.
Royal Avenue Program
780 Highway 99 North, Eugene, OR 97402
541.461.2845 FAX 541.688.4163
email: racrs@sheltercare.org
Contact: Dean Schlecht, Program Manager
Royal Avenue Program offers crisis respite to adults
experiencing acute mental health issues that don't require
hospitalization. The program allows residents to remain in the
community during times of mental health crisis. The program averts
hospitalization and encourages a successful return to community living.
Open 24 hours a day, the program provides services that increase
residents’ success at independence and improve their quality of life.
Of the approximately 200 crisis clients each year who are
homeless upon arrival to Royal Avenue Program, 43% leave to an improved
housing situation after an average program stay of less than a week.
About half of the clients served by Royal Avenue leave to significantly
improved circumstances, having resolved their crisis, found housing, or
stabilized on their medications.
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