For people with a serious mental illness, this disability significantly affects their emotional state and behavior to the degree that day-to-day functioning can be impaired. Henderson’s Community Support Services promote recovery, hope, choice and success through community-based, effective and efficient interventions that help individuals maximize their strengths and lead rewarding and productive lives.

Who Benefits? People returning to the community after inpatient treatment for a mental illness; people with psychiatric disabilities that have been incarcerated or are involved with the legal system; and the homeless.

What do we offer? Intensive, community-based services. We assist individuals with all aspects of living in the community to help them gain stable housing, improved quality of life, fewer crises and hospitalizations.

How does it work? Community Support staff are mobile and work in close partnership with individuals to develop service plans based on individual goals.

Case Management Our case management staff works with the individual and their family to identify and prioritize needs. Together, they develop a service plan that establishes short and long-term goals and objectives for achieving them.

P.A.T.H. Project and F.A.C.T. Team Our P.A.T.H. Project (Positive Alternatives to Hospitalization) and F.A.C.T. (Florida Assertive Community Treatment) Team are recognized programs for delivering “services without walls.” We recognize the therapeutic role of the home environment for providing community-based psychiatric rehabilitation, treatment and intensive case management services to persons who have not responded well to traditional mental health services. Services are provided by multi-disciplinary teams and are available 24/7.

Forensic Services Program works closely with persons who are incarcerated in one of the local jails or who recently were discharged from a state forensic facility. Henderson’s professional staff ensures individuals receive the mental health services they need and want, advocate for due process in the criminal justice system and support the individual during their transition back into the community.

C.O.U.R.T. Project (Community Opportunities Utilizing Recovery Techniques) is a specialized forensic Residential Level II Treatment Program providing alternatives to incarceration. The program serves individuals who are suffering primarily from a mental illness and involved with the Broward County Misdemeanor Mental Health Court, the first of its kind in the nation, or who are homeless and at risk of incarceration.

Homeless Services Homeless Services ease the transition from homelessness to home living. Our Homeless Outreach Program has a proven track record of success in easing a homeless person off the streets. By scouring highway underpasses, parks, streets and isolated encampments, team members begin the process by building trust, offering food, clothes and other necessities.