Programs and Services
Transitional Resources offers a continuum of services that are integrated and comprehensive. Each are pioneering concepts that promote recovery and a Better Life for those with mental illness.
- Crisis/Hospital Diversion
- Residential Treatment
- Intensive Case Management
- Case Management
- Housing
- Psychiatric Services
- Vocational Services
- Growing Solutions
Crisis/Hospital Diversion
TR has two short-term diversion beds that provide intensive, short-term, 24-hour supervision and support for adults in psychiatric crisis. The program is designed to rapidly stabilize the presenting psychiatric crisis and return the consumer to his or her home, usually within 3-5 days.
While at TR, crisis guests participate in the home-like milieu, while receiving 1:1 support, medication monitoring, join in treatment groups, while also being linked to support services that are needed after discharge.
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Residential Treatment
The 15 consumers who participate in the Intensive Congregate Care rehabilitative and residential program (ICCP), also called TRY House, are those with the most serious and persistent mental illnesses, who might otherwise be at high risk for institutionalization, homelessness, or incarceration.
Unlike other residential facilities, consumers living at TRY house maintain a cooperatively run household. With the close participation of 24-hour professional staff, consumers shop, prepare three meals a day, keep the household clean and organized, and plan for and carry out community activities and outings.
The consumers and staff cooperate in making decisions to benefit the household so that everyone involved contributes to building an environment consistent with the value of shared responsibility. Along with household duties, residents are encouraged to seek employment, volunteer, or educational opportunities through our vocational program. Most residents move into our supported living program following residential treatment.
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Intensive Case Management
TR’s Expanding Community Services Program, developed in conjunction with Highline West Seattle Mental Health, offers intensive, highly structured case management services in the homes of consumers who have been recently released from long-term stays in the state hospital. These consumers have treatment needs that pose substantial barriers to placement in more traditional programs.
A treatment team comprised of case managers, a nurse, vocational specialist, and a psychiatrist work with each consumer and his or her support system to help realize the consumer’s goals. Because each case manager only manages four clients, this is a highly personalized way for consumers to transition into the community.
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Case Management
Puget Sound Networks’ Case Management program partners staff with consumers living in the community to achieve personal goals using a strengths-oriented approach. Caseloads in this program are low and support is easily accessible 7 days a week. Services focus on offering practical assistance and resource advocacy, including, but not limited to assistance attaining and maintaining affordable housing, daily medication management, wellness classes, symptom management, vocational support, and after-hours crisis services.
Consumers in the case management program also have the ability to take advantage of our drop-in center located in TRY house. Transitional Resources Activity Center (TRAC) offers a positive place to socialize with peers, develop more confidence, and foster skills necessary for recovery. TRAC is open 7 days a week to all agency clients looking for a safe and supportive environment.
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Housing
The supported housing program provides safe, decent, and affordable housing for clients in houses and apartments in the surrounding community. This program includes our 15 unit apartment building, Avalon Mutual Housing, located right next to TRY house, ten group houses serving 3-5 clients each that are either agency owned or rented, and numerous individual apartments.
Consumers support each other in an independent living environment with regular contact and assistance from Transitional Resources’ staff. Consumers receive as much or as little support as needed to be successful in independent living.
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Psychiatric Services
Psychiatric evaluation and medication management services are an integral component of the services offered at TR. Services include assessment, daily medication monitoring, education, and coordination with primary care providers.
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Vocational Services
Puget Sound Employment (PSE), our vocational program, leads consumers toward the road to recovery by helping them find and maintain meaningful employment, volunteer experiences, or educational opportunities in the community. Transitional Resources is a vendor with the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation (DVR) and is able to assist consumers throughout King County.
In addition, vocational staff work with employers to overcome barriers to employment and to reduce the stigma associated with employing those with mental illness. Clients are employed in both national and local companies, as well as with TR, either on the janitorial crew or as a team member of Growing Solutions, our certified organic garden and mobile work crew.
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Growing Solutions
Growing Solutions provides job training and employment for consumers who might otherwise be unable to find work. Opportunities for employment are available in our Greens to Market program.
The Greens to Market program has produced salad greens and herbs for area restaurants grown in our large greenhouse donated by the Douglas J. Schwartz Foundation and in our organic garden. Transitional Resources is the smallest certified organic farm in Washington State. We are currently seeking to expand our program and hope to develop new partnerships with area restaurants and food banks.
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