RESIDENTIAL SERVICES

VBH provides a wide range of client-driven and community-based residential opportunities for qualified persons with a history of being severely and persistently mentally ill. Our residential efforts began in the early 1980s and continue today. Residential services are directed toward helping persons with psychiatric disabilities live successfully in diverse communities. Ensuring a safe, affordable, and empathic environment appropriate for the client's needs is emphasized. Residential services, along with outpatient treatment services, provide qualified clients the opportunity to proceed from hospital settings through a range or continuum of residential options. These care options include Supervised Residential (SR), specialized long-term housing, traditionally supported living facilities (SLF), supported apartments, and independent community living.

VBH housing management reflects the strengths model. It assumes that all persons are capable of growth and that family and communities are resources. It requires a flexible, individualized support system that places clients in settings that maximize their integration into community activities to enhance their ability to function independently. Our housing philosophy is linked with the Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities (TDMHDD) housing philosophy. Residential Services are located in the following counties: Bledsoe, Bradley, Franklin, Hamilton, Marion, McMinn, Warren, and Wilson.