NWMHC: Northern Wyoming Mental Health Center

Northern Wyoming Mental Health Center is a private, nonprofit, community mental health center that provides comprehensive mental health and substance abuse treatment services to the residents of Crook, Johnson, Sheridan, and Weston counties in Wyoming. Northern serves youths and adults suffering from mild to serious mental illness and substance use disorders. Each person receives treatment carefully tailored to his or her individual needs. Services are available to anyone on a sliding fee scale basis.

The Northern Wyoming Mental Health Center's professionals help people with problems that are disrupting their lives, or the lives of their families, friends and co-workers. Typical problems include:

• A couple in marital crises struggling to preserve the family unit;
• An adolescent or adult whose use of alcohol or drugs threatens his or her health and creates problems at home, at school, or on the job;
• A young person struggling as a single parent to raise a family;
• An adult suffering from a serious mental illness;
• An elderly person who no longer finds meaning in life and develops chronic depression;
• A child with a behavior disorder.

Northern Wyoming Mental Health Center is a community-minded health care provider. The goal of NWMHC's staff is to offer every client competent, professional, confidential, and affordable mental health services. We provide diagnostic treatment and prevention programs that help people in the comfortable and familiar surroundings of their own community.

Northern Wyoming Mental Health Center offers the following services:

Outpatient Services:
Outpatient Services are requested by people seeking help to solve problems that are interfering with their daily lives at home or on the job.

Emergency Services:
NWMHC offers emergency care in all four counties. As a result, anyone who needs assistance can depend on a qualified professional to be available when an emergency arises.

Rehabilitation Services:
Treatment options for clients who require more intensive care than outpatient service, but not full hospitalization. The client retains daily family contact and support while receiving frequent, highly focused treatment and compassionate support.

Consultation and Education Services:
NWMHC plays an important role in each community it serves through education and consultation services. These programs are designed to increase public awareness of the value of good mental health. They also make the public aware that - with mental health care, as with physical health care - prevention of serious problems is as important as treatment.

Specialized Services

NWMHC offers an array of special programs tailored to the unique mental health and substance abuse demands of each county.

Marriage Counseling and Family Therapy:
These programs are designed to help families that are fragmented or in crisis, where the integrity of the family unit is threatened.

Children's Day Treatment Programs:
Each clinic has created programs to help youngsters between the ages of five and thirteen build self-esteem, social skills, and emotional well-being.

Services for the Elderly:
Services are designed to assist senior citizens facing the challenges of aging. Our professionals work with caregivers to help seniors cope with physical problems, isolation, loneliness and depression.

Geriatric Consultation:
Northern offers training and support to nursing homes and other agencies serving the elderly. Individual mental health assessment and therapy is also available to clients when needed.

Substance Abuse Prevention:
This prevention program identifies the consequences and costs of alcohol, tobacco, and drug use to people throughout the community. The program educates young people and their parents about the dangers of substance abuse.

Substance Abuse Intensive Outpatient Programs:
An adult Substance Abuse Intensive Outpatient Program serving both men and women is offered by the Center in Sheridan County. An adolescent Intensive Outpatient Program is also offered in Sheridan County, with a similar program being developed in Johnson County.

Minors in Possession (MIP):
This program supplies assessment, consultation and referral services for minors who have been found in possession of alcoholic beverages.

Driving While Under the Influence (DWUI):
NWMHC conducts classes providing both treatment and education for those convicted of DWUI offenses.

Family Preservation:
This program provides intensive treatment of a serious mental or emotional disorder of a child or adolescent. The services of a mental health professional, a case manager, and an individual rehabilitative therapist are employed to prevent placement in a residential treatment center or psychiatric hospital.

Therapeutic Foster Care:
This service combines the family and community-based aspects of the Foster Home with the structure and treatment functions of an inpatient or residential program. Children placed in TFCs are seriously emotionally disturbed and at high risk of placement in residential treatment centers or psychiatric hospitals.

Supported Independence Project:
The Supported Independence Project is a dynamic treatment team that provides individualized support and treatment services to seriously mentally ill clients. Clients are at risk of hospitalization or are discharged from in-patient care.

NWMHC Annual Report in .pdf format