Project Details & Specs.
Facility Features
This first-of-its-kind mental health diversion and treatment facility will be a one-stop-shop to address high cost/high need individuals with serious mental illnesses involved in or at risk of becoming involved in the criminal justice system and other acute care treatment systems.
FEATURES The 7 floor, 208 bed facility will house a comprehensive array of treatment and support services including:
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Central-receiving center designated specifically for law enforcement and fire-rescue.
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Screening and assessment to identify individual risk factors and needs.
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Integrated adult crisis stabilization unit and addiction receiving facility.
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Various levels of residential treatment and transitional housing.
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Behavioral health and primary care treatment.
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Dental and optometry services.
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Day treatment and day activity programs.
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Crisis respite services.
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Employment/vocational culinary training services.
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Treatment for co-occurring substance use and trauma-related disorders.
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A courtroom to manage both civil and criminal matters.
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Expedited access to state and federal entitlement benefits.
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Community re-entry support services to assist individuals with linkages to basic needs after discharge, including ongoing treatment, housing, medications, clothing, and food.
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Space for the courts and social service agencies (e.g., housing providers, legal services, and immigration services) that will address the comprehensive needs of individuals served.
In addition to providing treatment services, the Center will support programs of research and education to identify and disseminate evidence-based practices, establish system performance indicators and accountability measures to ensure maximum return on investment, and launch professional development and training programs that grow the needed workforce in this area.
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VOCATIONAL
TRAINING
INTAKE
ASSESMENT
CRISIS
STABILIZATION
UNIT
SHORT-TERM
RESIDENTIAL
TREATMENT
REFERRAL
SOCIAL SERVICE
RESPITE
DISCHARGE
PLAN/
SUPPORT
DISCHARGE
PLAN/
SUPPORT
LONG-TERM
RESIDENTIAL
MAGISTRATE/
HEARING/
LEGAL
CUSTODIAL
SERVICES
EARLY
INTERVENTION
SOCIAL
SERVICES
HEALTH
SERVICES
MEDICATION
THERAPY
PEER
SUPPORT
MAGISTRATE/HEARING/LEGAL
Although some patients enter willingly enroll in the program at recommendations given to them in the intake process, some patients may not be capable of making decisions of their own. This might lead to consideration to care for them under Florida’s Baker Act. In this case, on-site facilities for due-process spare the patient the trauma of transportation to an off-site environment to receive a hearing.
ASSESSMENT
Cases submitted to the Miami Center for Mental Health & Recovery Facility are screened to identify mental health and behavioral health concerns. Cases that meet the facility’s criteria are taken on and the person becomes a new patient. Cases which do not meet the criteria are deferred to other care.
INTAKE
Trained law-enforcement, in collaboration with
co-responders, or mobile-crisis after communicating with and de-escalating a mental-health case, transport the potential patient to the Miami Center for Mental Health & Recovery Facility.
LONG-TERM RESIDENTIAL
Patients entering long-term care are transitioning to the next step of their healing journey. During this period, they will have unfettered access to the custodial services that have been available to them during treatment but will also be encouraged to rejoin the outside community. Their long-term residence offers them stable housing until they are ready to move into outside housing.
CRISIS STABILIZATION
In Crisis Stabilization, the patient is monitored and administered the required care to identify individual risk and immediate health concerns. They receive treatment necessary to stabilize their condition so the process of healing can begin.
REFERRAL
Some deferred cases are transported to another facility or receive some of the required care at the Miami Center for Mental Health & Recovery Center. This can be in the form of review and referral, social services, or a safe place to rest and recover from the crisis.
SHORT-TERM RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT
Patients requiring sustained treatment will be assigned living arrangements within the facility where they will have access to on-site treatment
and custodial services necessary to their healing journey.
DISCHARGE PLAN/SUPPORT
Patients that have completed their treatment continue to be supported by facility through sustained access to custodial services. This vital access reduces risk of relapse and gives them clear access to avoid future crisis.
DISCHARGE PLAN/SUPPORT
Patients that have completed their treatment continue to be supported by facility through sustained access to custodial services. This vital access reduces risk of relapse and gives them clear access to avoid future crisis.
Floor Plans
Site Plan
First Floor
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Second Floor
Third Floor
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Sixth and Seventh Floor
Fourth and Fifth Floor
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Service Capacity
Estimated number of individuals to be served based on total bed capacity and anticipated length of stay:
NOTE: CSU = Crisis Stabilization Unit; SRT = Short-Term Residential Treatment (locked units) ; RTF = Residential Treatment Facility