Services
The scope of services provided by New Horizons is immense. True to its mission, the Center strives to answer the needs of community residents, obtaining their input throughout the planning, development and implementation stages. Feedback is continually solicited from consumers.

The Center provides the following services:

Case Management

Assertive and comprehensive case management serving children or adults is defined as an extensive problem solving function designed to assure continuity of services. Areas of intervention include: treatment services and planning, assistance with obtaining housing, food and clothing, substance abuse treatment and medical services (including dental services), mental health treatment and entitlement benefits. Assertive and comprehensive case management requires on going monitoring and follow-ups to assure that the mentally ill changing service-needs are met. Daily and weekly intervention by case managers continues until client is ready for less intensive involvement based on level of emotional growth and development and life skills.

Case Management

Case management consists of five (5) major functions:

  1. Assessment of client needs, strengths and weaknesses;
  2. Planning service/treatment plan to meet client's needs;
  3. Linking client with resources to meet needs;
  4. Monitoring the progress of clients achievement of treatment plan, and;
  5. Advocacy with service providers and other community resources on behalf of client to facilitate access to resources needed to meet service needs.

Child & Adolescent

This is a comprehensive outpatient program for severely emotionally disturbed children, adolescent and their families. Services provided includes: individual, group and family counseling, school consultation, tutoring, therapeutic recreational and cultural activities, parenting classes, psychological and psychiatric evaluations, self awareness training, parent-effectiveness training, pre-vocational skills training, cultural and leadership awareness activities, drug prevention training, legal and political systems negotiating activities, substance abuse counseling (moderate users) and psychosocial assessment

Child & Adolescent
Children & Family Services

  • Youth Experiencing Success (YES) - This is an after-school program for elementary and middle school youth who have emotional and/or behavioral problems. (Ages: 8-13)
  • Youth Substance Abuse Prevention Bureau (YSAPB)- This is a program for the training of youth (Ages: 13-21) in community advocacy, leadership roles, and development of a speakers bureau for community substance abuse.
  • Gladeview Neighborhood Center Project - planning of neighborhood resources center for the Gladeview community, an African American community, in Miami-Dade County, Florida. The center focuses on collaborating partnerships to address safe and secure environments for children and families.
  • Families and Schools Together (FAST) - This is a school-based substance abuse and juvenile justice prevention program designed to have the schools and families of the children at risk for drop out and/or failure working together to help them succeed.
  • Juvenile Justice Project - This is an outpatient mental health and substance abuse treatment service program for youth referred by the Florida State Juvenile Justice Department.
  • The Herbert & Marilyn Bloom Moms & Babes Residential Treatment Center - This is a program for mothers who have a history of substance abuse and who are at risk for abuse/neglect or have been charged with abuse/neglect of their infant and toddler children.
  • Forensic Case Management- This is specialized services for adults who have a mental illness or co-occurring (mental illness and substance abuse) disorders and are incarcerated.
  • Housing Opportunities for People with AIDS - This is a program whereby housing specialists provide housing with support services for persons with a HIV/AIDS diagnosis.

Children& Family Services
Crisis Intervention Services

Emergency counseling for individuals who are in a crisis situation which may result in inpatient hospitalization for psychiatric illness and/or substance abuse.

Crisis Intervention Services
Crisis Stabilization

24 hour inpatient locked residential facility for individuals who are in a crisis situation which may result in inpatient hospitalization for psychiatric illness and/or substance abuse.

Cuban-Haitian Adjustment Project

The Cuban-Haitian Adjustment Program (CHAP) provides mental health services that are designed to meet the needs of the Cuban and Haitian refugee/entrant families that have been in the United States for no more than 84 months

Day/Night Treatment

The clients have a structured, but low demand therapeutic program which is adjusted to meet individual needs and state of readiness. Recreational and leisure time interventions (i.e., sports, selected movies and games) are used to enhance therapeutic goals, self-esteem, social interaction personal responsibility and interpersonal cooperation for clients. Structured program of activities at least 5 days weekly which focus on life management skills; basic literacy skills; pre-vocational assessment and training, acculturation activities, etc. Major emphasis placed on socialization skills.

Geriatric Services

The Neighborhood Family Services (NFS) is comprised of two programs serving the elderly of 60 years or more. Day Treatment Services are offered such as: group and recreational therapy, psychiatric care, follow-up transportation and a hot lunch. The Senior Day Program are designed for isolation and the psychological effects of depressing socioeconomic living conditions and poor health. Clients in this program need to have a mental illness to be eligible for services

Homeless Services

Services consist of scattered site housing, residential treatment facilities, case management, and outpatient medical management and counseling. Housing is provided in collaboration with Miami-Dade Housing Department

Outpatient

  • Medical - Psychiatric evaluation and pharmaceutical services to clients in need of psychotropic medication to manage their psychiatric illness. This service includes the purchasing of medication for low-income clients. These services are also available to clients who have a dual diagnosis of mental illness and substance abuse.
  • Counseling / Theraphy - Individual, family and/or group provided insight oriented, cognitive behavioral therapy enhancing their ability for personal, social and life management.

Overtown Family Enrichment Center

The Overtown Family Enrichment Center provides services to families living in the Overtown neighborhood. Services are geared toward preserving, empowering and strengthening the families so that they may raise their children. Services provided are: parenting classes, after school tutoring, HIV/AIDS and teenage pregnancy prevention workshops, substance abuse prevention, basic literacy skills (reading) training, case management, counseling services, health education and social and cultural activities.

Residential Services

24 hours, 7 days a week supervised residential treatment services for clients unable to live independently in the community as determined by their physician and treatment team. Services directed at clients at risk for homelessness and/or hospitalization because of limited ability to manage their living environment, health, mental illness and substance abuse illnesses without supervision.

Substance Abuse Program

The substance abuse program provides substance abuse counseling to adolescents and adults who have been determined to be involved with illegal drug usage. In addition to a range of direct intervention services, the program provides outreach services as well as activities oriented toward increase community awareness and education relating to substance abuse and HIV education activities that are geared toward children, adolescents, adults and their families. Services are provided in schools, homes, businesses and churches.