Services at Valley Mental Health

Valley Mental Health provides comprehensive treatment and services for people of all ages who are experiencing serious mental illnesses, substance use disorders and behavior problems. We have a well trained and caring staff of therapists, psychiatrists, case managers, social workers and medical staff in Salt Lake, Summit and Tooele Counties.

Valley Mental Health has services for children, youth, adults and seniors.  Click a topic below for a service description.

• Inpatient care and services

• Residential care and services

• Outpatient mental health care and services

• Outpatient substance abuse care and services

• 24-Hour crisis care and services

• Psychotropic medication management

• Psychosocial rehabilitation

• Forensic services

• Case management

• Community supports

• Consultation and education services

• Specialized services for children and youth

• Prevention services

Inpatient Care and Services (back to top)
In a hospital licensed to provide 24 hour psychiatric service to persons who need this service.

Residential Care and Services (back to top)
To help a person transition to the community from more supervised care or to help them stay out of the more supervised facility.

Outpatient Mental Health Care and Services (back to top)
Outpatient treatment has an emphasis on short-term treatment to help individuals and families to manage their problems and live in the community. This includes individual therapy/counseling, family therapy/counseling, group therapy, medication evaluation and management, and crisis intervention.  

Outpatient Substance Abuse Care and Services (back to top)
Outpatient treatment has an emphasis on short-term treatment to help individuals and families to manage their problems and live in the community. This includes diagnosis and treatment of alcoholism and drug addition and a continuum of services from hospitalization to support, as determined by individual need. 

Specialized services for women and their dependent children, including a residential program for those referred through the courts may also be provided in Salt Lake and Tooele Counties.  Specialized services for families where a member is in need of alcoholism and drug addiction treatment may also be provided. 

In Salt Lake County, referrals are coordinated through Salt Lake County Assessment and Referral Services.  Click here for information on these services or call (801) 532-1850 for adult assessments or (801) 468-2009 for youth assessments.

24-Hour Crisis Care and Services (back to top)
Valley Mental Health provides 24 hour crisis services for residents of Salt Lake, Summit and Tooele Counties.  If you are in need of a crisis worker please call:

Salt Lake County
Call our 24 hour crisis hot line at (801) 261-1442 or call toll free
1 (800) 537-8739.  You may also contact the Valley Mental Health outpatient clinic nearest you.  Click here for a map and phone numbers of our Salt Lake area clinics (SLC map).
 

Summit County
Call our office at (435) 649-9079 to speak with a crisis worker.
After normal business hours or on the weekend, please call 1 (800) 537-8739 and request a crisis worker to contact you. The crisis worker will handle the immediate crisis and refer you for other services as needed.

Tooele County
Call our office at (435) 843-3520, to speak with a crisis worker.
After normal business hours or on the weekend, please call (435) 882-5600 and request a crisis worker to contact you. The crisis worker will handle the immediate crisis and refer you for other services as needed.

 

Psychotropic Medication Management (back to top)
Comprehensive psychiatric services are provided including prescribing Psychotropic medications and management of these medications on an outpatient basis. The medical staff treat both psychological disorders and substance use disorders, including those with both substance abuse and a psychological disorder.

Psychosocial Rehabilitation (back to top)
This includes Vocational Training and Skills Development for individuals with long-term mental illness.

• Clubhouse model to provide a supportive and accepting community in which members gain a sense of belonging and accomplishment through meaningful work relationships:
  • The Work-Ordered Day engages members and staff together, side-by-side, in the running of the clubhouse. All clubhouse work is designed to help members regain their self-worth, purpose, and confidence by focusing on the strengths, talents, and abilities of its members and giving them the opportunity to participate in all the work of the program.
  • Employment program enables members to return to paid work through transitional and independent employment. Members obtain confidence, self-respect, and vocational skills through community-based employment.
    • Transitional Employment is a work training program that provides members with part-time, entry-level job placement with local businesses. The clubhouse provides support on the job according to the needs of each individual.
    • Independent Employment assists members to secure, sustain, and upgrade their own employment.
• Outpatient Recovery Program gives clients and opportunity for learning or relearning skills needed to reconnect with themselves, others and the community at large. Skills classes are tailored to individual needs to help clients find employment, volunteer opportunities or the continuation of educational goals.
• Community Computer Education Program is an innovative recovery focused education to work program for disadvantaged populations displaced by society with severe mental illness, chemical dependence, and/or other serious life problems. Students work in a self paced, non-graded, non-competitive environment. The curriculum and course structure are specially designed to be challenging and accommodating, offering a readily achievable goal, while gaining easily applicable, and highly technical skills.
• Pathways to Recovery is a day treatment model including:
  • Psycho-educational groups help clients develop strategies and skills to cope with depression, family dynamics, self-help, money management, healthy relationships, understand schizophrenia, weight management, medication education, and manage symptoms.
  • Activity groups provide an environment for clients to learn to develop an interest in enjoyable activities. Clients in these groups increase their ability to experience and express pleasure, plan and help organize group activities, learn to interact spontaneously with others in low demand situations, develop skills for conflict resolution, and work with others.
  • Work and school support groups develop and enhance employment skills, and supports clients who have returned or are planning to return to an academic or job training environment.

Forensic Services (back to top)
Forensic services are for adults referred to Valley Mental Health from the criminal courts, State Parole and Probation, Federal Parole and Probation, Criminal Justice Services and other correction agencies.

• Adult perpetrators in domestic violence cases.
• Adult perpetrators of offenses related to substance abuse, theft, assaults, fraud and other criminal activities.
• Seriously and persistently mentally ill perpetrators of crime supervised by AP&P, the court and Mental Health Court.

Case Management (back to top)
Case management support is provided to assist clients in effectively utilizing available community resources. It is provided for clients diagnosed with a severe and persistent mental illness who require more extensive outpatient services to promote independence and recovery in the community. They are helped to secure quality medical, dental, and substance abuse services in the community and are referred to the program by their primary therapist.

Community Supports (back to top)
This includes in-home services, housing, family support services and respite services, which are made available to clients in need through referral from their primary therapist.

Consultation and Educational Services (back to top)
Includes but is not limited to: case consultation, collaboration with other state agencies, public education, and public information.

Specialized Services for Children and Youth (back to top)

• We provide services for children with autism through the Carmen B. Pingree Center for Children with Autism in Salt Lake City.

• Day Care at our Expanding Horizons preschool in Salt Lake City.

• School based treatment through the Salt Lake County School Districts.

• Children's Unit at Valley Mental Health- Tooele County.

Prevention Services (back to top)
Valley Mental Health provides prevention and education services and programs based on the Risk and Protective Factor model, and best practices developed by the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention. We aim to identify risks for substance abuse and violence and develop resiliency through healthy life skills. Our prevention programs address specific needs of communities through school and family-based approaches.