Services and Rehabilitation

PAL's Services

PAL offers supportive, rehabilitative housing services to adults with mental illnesses who are homeless or unable to live safely on their own. PAL's goal is to demonstrate that the most vulnerable citizens, homeless people with mental illness, can be best served by bringing together distinct service sectors: mental health, medical treatment, housing, benefits and entitlements. PAL is confident that through its programs, it will assist in improving symptoms and every situation that flows from better mental health-quality of life, income and of course, stable housing.

PAL's rehabilitative Services

• Housing- Residents learn and perform appropriate hygiene, laundry and housekeeping skills to maintain their own private belongings and space.

• Meals- Residents learn to use appropriate dining skills while having three healthy and nutritious meals in a dining room setting.

• Medication Monitoring- Residents learn about the medication they have been prescribed to treat their mental illnesses, when to take treir medication and how much medication to take.

• Treatment Monitoring- Residents become skilled at keeping doctor's appointments by being taught to keep an appointment calendar of medical and psychiatric appointments.

• Leisure/Recreation- Residents participate in leisure/recreational and social activities as a means of entertainment and relaxation. (PAL has on-site a recreation room, socialization parlor, chapel and media room).

• Transportation- Residents will receive assistance with applying for medical and MITS transportation and learning to ride public transportation. (PAL will provide transportation to and from medical appointments, psychiatric appointments and daily activities for residents who are not eligible for medical or MITS transportation services and are not mentally capable of riding public transportation).

• Money Management- Residents who are required by Social Security Administration to have someone manage their social security income, may request PAL be their manager/payee, if no one else is available.

If PAL is asked to act as manager/payee, a trust fund will be established for residents' social security income to be managed. The residents' trust fund will finance all of residents' basic needs each month. If funds remain after all basic needs are met, the residents' remaining funds will be evenly divided and given to resident as four (4) weekly allowances.