Riverbend Community Mental Health – Mill House - Boscawen, NH

About the Facility

Riverbend Community Mental Health - Mill House offers inpatient treatment for individuals with a mental health illness. The program includes group therapy, individualized treatment, individual counseling and more. Riverbend Community Mental Health - Mill House is located at Boscawen, New Hampshire.

The Mill House program consists of 19 private (one bedroom and studio) non-smoking apartments for individuals with low-income who are in need of moderate levels of staff support to address their psychiatric symptoms and functional impairments. The program’s goal is to promote recovery and the highest level of independent living.

Three meals and a snack are provided daily for residents. Assistance is given throughout the day through supervision and verbal cues to aid in completion of Activities of Daily Living (ADL’s) and to work together on each individual’s treatment plan and goals.

The program provides the necessary residential, psychiatric and rehabilitative services aimed at empowerment and promotion of the person’s active and positive participation in the broader community, for those people who would otherwise be institutionalized, incarcerated, homeless and indigent and display a deteriorating clinical course and a poor quality of life.

Trained residential staff work with tenants provide supportive counseling, symptom management, crisis intervention, medication monitoring, and administration and supervision for residents in their apartments, the facility and the community. These functional Support Services along with safe affordable housing are intended to support individuals who, in their absence, would be at increased risk of homelessness and hospitalization.

The Mill House program is accessible for persons with disabilities and provides 24 hour staff coverage. Priority is given to residents of Boscawen, individuals that may be homeless, and individuals currently residing within Merrimack County or close proximity. It is a collaborative effort between Riverbend Community Mental Health and the Mill House Limited Partnership.

Treatment

Mental Health

If you had a pre-existing mental health disorder before you started abusing substances, it is likely you relied on the substances as a way to self-medicate. Many symptoms of mental health disorders are stressful, so it can initially feel like drugs or alcohol are a way to reduce those symptoms. On the other hand, people who abuse substances increase their chances of developing a mental health condition.

Insurance and Financial

Medicaid
Self-pay options
Financial aid
Medicare

Programs

Adult program

Elderly program

Program for men

Program for women

Young adult program

Levels of Care

Inpatient

Residential treatment programs are those that offer housing and meals in addition to substance abuse treatment. Rehab facilities that offer residential treatment allow patients to focus solely on recovery, in an environment totally separate from their lives. Some rehab centers specialize in short-term residential treatment (a few days to a week or two), while others solely provide treatment on a long-term basis (several weeks to months). Some offer both, and tailor treatment to the patient's individual requirements.

Aftercare Support

Completing a drug or alcohol rehab program shouldn't spell the end of substance abuse treatment. Aftercare involves making a sustainable plan for recovery, including ongoing support. This can include sober living arrangements like halfway houses, career counseling, and setting a patient up with community programs like Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) or Narcotics Anonymous (NA).

Clinical Services

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a therapy modality that focuses on the relationship between one's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It is used to establish and allow for healthy responses to thoughts and feelings (instead of unhealthy responses, like using drugs or alcohol). CBT has been proven effective for recovering addicts of all kinds, and is used to strengthen a patient's own self-awareness and ability to self-regulate. CBT allows individuals to monitor their own emotional state, become more adept at communicating with others, and manage stress without needing to engage in substance abuse.

Group Therapy

Group therapy is any therapeutic work that happens in a group (not one-on-one). There are a number of different group therapy modalities, including support groups, experiential therapy, psycho-education, and more. Group therapy involves treatment as well as processing interaction between group members.

Individual Therapy

In individual therapy, a patient meets one-on-one with a trained psychologist or counselor. Therapy is a pivotal part of effective substance abuse treatment, as it often covers root causes of addiction, including challenges faced by the patient in their social, family, and work/school life.

Life Skills

Life skills trainings involve all the skills a person must have in order to function successfully in the world. These include time management, career guidance, money management, and effective communication. Truly successful addiction recovery is based on the ability to not only live substance-free, but to thrive. Life skills teaches the practical necessities of functioning in society, which sets clients up for success in life, and therefore sobriety.

Trauma Therapy

Trauma therapy addresses traumatic incidents from a client's past that are likely affecting their present-day experience. Trauma is often one of the primary triggers and potential causes of addiction, and can stem from child sexual abuse, domestic violence, having a parent with a mental illness, losing one or both parents at a young age, teenage or adult sexual assault, or any number of other factors. The purpose of trauma therapy is to allow a patient to process trauma and move through and past it, with the help of trained and compassionate mental health professionals.