About JBS Mental Health Authority – Birmingham
JBS Mental Health Authority is located in Birmingham, Alabama. They serve people in Jefferson, Blount and St. Clair counties. They offer individual mental health services for children, youths and adults through education, treatment and support. This facility participates in the National Health Service Corps, and they won’t deny you access if you can’t pay. Also, they use a sliding scale to determine how much each person has to pay.
They have a Residential Services Program that provides residential treatment for those dealing with mental illness, plus they have independent living settings that have different levels of support for adults. Their programs include transitional homes, group homes, day treatment services, peer to peer treatment, MOM apartments, independent living apartments, forensic services and adult foster care.
The residential treatment center team is made up of RN and LPN nurses, master level therapists, a psychiatrist, bachelor level coordinators, certified peer specialists, an entitlement and benefits specialist, MAC trained mental health technicians and a placement services team. They’ll take referrals from several different entities.
They have a JBS Children’s Services Program that’s a non traditional in home and outpatient intensive therapy program. The intensive in home intervention program is for children aged five to 18, adolescents and families who are dealing with severe emotional and behavioral issues. The first priority of this program is to intervene during a behavioral or mental health crisis and keep the child from being displaced out of their home. Secondly, care coordinators show families how and where to find community services they weren’t aware of to help with certain problems. JBS also sends mental health professionals to the Jefferson County Courthouse to work with probate judges helping those who are involuntarily committed.
Previous clients have reported life transformation due to the treatment here. Clients say the staff are friendly and helpful and answer all questions.
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