ACT Criteria

SWCC has an interdisciplinary team within the agency

that has the capacity to provide a broad range of services.

The staff includes psychiatrists, a clinical nurse specialist,

registered nurses a licensed mental health professional and a

case manager.  For consumers who qualify, linkage to a

Prescription Assistance Program is available. The medical

team works closely with other agencies and a person's primary

care physician to ensure needs are addressed appropriately.

CCSS provide services to consumers and family members

which are necessary to promote recovery, rehabilitation, and

resiliency.  Community Support workers assist consumers

in indentifying and addressing barriers that impede the

development of skills necessary for independent functioning

and provide skills training in those areas.  CCSS activities

address goals specifically in the areas of independent living,

learning, working, socializing, and recreation.  

PSR focuses on teaching and supporting consumers to

develop the skills necessary to become responsible,

contributing members of our community.  The goal is

for the person to function at his or her highest potential in

the normal roles of employee, friend, student, parent, or

spouse.  SWCC's Friendship House operates using a

core set of principles and values, which focus on utilizing

the consumer's strength's and resources.

125 S. Main Street

(575) 527-7920

2941 Lost Amigos Ct

(575) 527-7981

TLC is a 24-hour residential treatment program designed

to teach consumers the skills necessary to live in the

community in an independent or supported setting.

Behavioral and therapeutic interventions focus on

individual, consumer-centered treatment plans that

support positive change and decreased psychiatric

hospitalization.  This is a voluntary program, which serves

adults over 18 years of age with a severe mental disorder.

The children and adolescent program provides

an array of outpatient services to seriously

emotionally disturbed children and those who are

at high risk of out-of-home placement.  The

program serves individuals between the ages of

two and twenty-one.  Individual and family therapy

is offered, along with intensive case

management, behavioral management,

home-based services, parenting groups,

psychiatric services and medication monitoring.

Serenity Center M-F 8:00-7:00

118 S. Main Street

Las Cruces, NM 88001

Outpatient substance abuse programs, including

DWI school for adults,adolescents, and children.

24 hour crisis intervention program

Programs

ACT serves adults with serious and persistent mental illness.

Individuals who benefit most from ACT intensive community

treatment are generally people who are diagnosed with

schizophrenia, other psychotic disorders and bipolar disorder. 

In addition, many consumers have co-occurring substance use

disorders.

Criteria