Therapeutic Day Treatment Services

The Odyssey Community Services, Inc. T.D.T. program approach involves an innovative utilization of existing human services staff and resources directly into the Department of Parks, Recreation & Community Facilities for the benefit of clients and families in need of services. Staff members from our agency are “repositioned” throughout Metro Hampton Roads (School Based, Home Based & Community Based) to form multi-disciplinary teams who will serve a manageable number of at-risk clients. This new human services delivery system emphasizes personalized, accountability, and teamwork. The individualized, coordinated, and integrated team effort gives each client and family many of the services needed to solve social, educational, mental health, and emotional problems that impede community success.

Crisis Stabilization

Our Crisis Stabilization program provides temporary intensive services to individuals experiencing crisis to avert emergency, psychiatric hospitalization or institutional placement. Our Crisis Stabilization counselors provide crisis supervision to ensure safety of all family members. Counselors assist in planning and delivering services and supports to enable the individual to remain in the community. Counselors train family members, other care givers, and service providers in supports to maintain the individual in the community . This service is designed to stabilize the individual and strengthen the current living situation so that the individual remains in the community during and beyond the crisis period.

Psychosocial Rehabilitation

Our Psychosocial Rehabilitation program is a day treatment program that provides therapeutic interventions for adults in a nonresidential group setting that promotes independent living, social and interpersonal skill development, and relapse prevention. The program provides education and activities to teach the individual about mental illness, substance abuse, and appropriate medication. The program is designed for adults who are experiencing emotional illness that results in functional impairments in life activities .

Out-Patient Services

Employee Assistance Programs (10- 50 min sessions):

Odyssey Community Services Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs) are employee benefit programs offered by many employers, typically in conjunction with a health insurance plan. EAPs are intended to help employees deal with personal problems that might adversely impact their work performance, health, and well-being. EAPs generally include assessment, short-term counseling and referral services for employees and their household members.

Employees and their household members may use EAPs to help manage issues in their work and personal lives. EAP counselors typically provide assessment, support, and, if needed, referrals to additional resources. The issues for which EAPs provide support vary, but examples include:

• substance abuse
• safe working environment
• emotional distress
• major life events, including births, accidents and deaths
• health care concerns
• financial or legal concerns
• family/personal relationship issues
• work relationship issues
• concerns about aging parents

Odyssey Community Services EAP's services are usually free to the employee and their household member, having been pre-paid by the employer. In most cases, an employer contracts with a third-party company to manage its EAP. Some of these companies rely upon other vendors or contracted employees for specialized services to supplement their own services, such as: financial advisors, attorneys, travel agents, elder/child care specialists, and the like.

At Odyssey confidentiality is maintained in accordance with privacy laws and ethical standards.

Some studies indicate that offering EAPs may result in various benefits for employers, including lower medical costs, reduced turnover and absenteeism, and higher employee productivity. Proponents, however, argue that the consistency of positive findings across studies in different service sectors denote at least some positive effect of programs, even if the most effective components of such programs have not been determined.

The provision of employee assistance services has established business benefits, including increased productivity of employees (termed "presenteeism") and decreased absenteeism.

Individual Counseling/Family Counseling: (approximately 50 minutes)

The mission of the counseling division of Odyssey Community Services is to provide clinical therapy to those that are seeking solutions to life challenges and stressful situations. Often these situations may cause stress, anxiety, depression and feeling overwhelmed. Odyssey Community Services therapeutic modality of choice is usually cognitive behavioral therapy to include resiliency factors however, we individualize our services to meet the clients’ needs. The method has been proven, if you change your thinking process, you will inevitably change the behavior. Odyssey Community Services, Inc. provides private, exclusive, and highly confidential clinical services.

Substance Abuse Counseling: (approximately 50 minutes):

Substance abuse is a problem that affects not just the abusers, but also their families and friends. People with addictions are often dually diagnosed with mental and physical health problems, from obsessive compulsive disorder to HIV/AIDS and depression. Odyssey Community Services, Certified Substance Abuse Counselors work closely with them to identify reasons for their behavior and support them in taking the steps to change and remedy it.

Odyssey Community Services, Certified Substance Abuse Counselors work in a variety of community settings, such as drug detoxification centers, inpatient drug rehabilitation programs within hospitals and clinics, residential therapeutic communities, half-way houses, correctional institutions, methadone maintenance programs, partial hospitalization or day programs, out-patient counseling programs, and employee assistance programs. Odyssey Community Services, Certified Substance Abuse Counselors typically work as part of a team of caregivers that needs to be available around-the-clock to patients. Odyssey Community Services, Inc. provides private, exclusive, and highly confidential clinical services.

TeleCounseling/Online Counseling/eTherapy: (45 mins/250 words typed):

TeleCounseling/Online Counseling/eTherapy is a new way to “see” a therapist. Use of the Internet allows us to make available therapists at most any time or location.

Online counseling means that someone is always there when you need to talk. We offer three types of sessions with licensed professionals.

• Private Online Chat - Chat live, online, one to one.
• Phone Counseling - Your therapist will call you.
• Email Sessions - Receive your email response within 2 days.

Just as cell phones, email, chat, etc. have changed how we communicate with each other, online counseling (or e-counseling) is a growing trend taking advantage of these tools to connect with counselors regardless of where they are.

Trauma Response Counseling: (approximately 50 minutes):

This service is to provide Crisis Assessments, Counseling and interventions to schools, governments communities and families throughout the country that find themselves as victims of a traumatic event. In our current times, we are seeing an increase in traumatic events. Unfortunately, violence is on the rise. And, as a result, people are walking around wounded. Untreated trauma can result in a clinical diagnosis of PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). However it can also encompass anxiety or other depressive behavioral symptoms such as self injury, substance abuse, impaired interpersonal trust and affective instability. For these reasons it is critical that one reach out for assistance as soon as a traumatic event occurs. Examples of Trauma: Abuse; Domestic Violence, Witness Violent Crime; Severe accident; Natural Disaster; Sudden Death; War or Terrorism. Odyssey Community Services, Inc. provides private, exclusive, and highly confidential clinical services.