Pathways, Inc., offers a complete selection of mental health care services for individuals with emotional, mental or behavioral health problems:

• Crisis services and a toll-free Help Line for emergency assistance
• Rape crisis and victim's assistance
• Psychiatric evaluations and chemotherapy
• Outpatient psychotherapy
• Family and child treatment services
• Clinical services for the aged
• Case management services
• Psychological assessments

Emergency Services
Available for adults and children who find themselves in need of immediate assistance, the toll-free emergency Help Line operates 24 hours, seven days a week. This service will immediately place the caller in contact with a professional who can provide counseling by phone or arrange for a face-to-face consultation. The Help Line also connects callers with all Pathways services.

Crisis Stabilization
Services include brief residential care (up to 14 days) in a therapeutic milieu, thorough assessment of the crisis, individualized intensive therapeutic interventions, medication support, bi-directional referral arrangements with the Pathways Decriminalization and 23-1/2 hour hospital-based observation services, and aftercare referral. The goal is to demonstrate that crisis stabilization services are efficient and effective alternatives to inpatient hospital care. Crisis stabilization is available for adults and for children ages 6-17 with emotional needs in the Pathways region who are at risk for out-of-home placement or hospitalization, or who need “step-down” from hospitalization.

Mobile Crisis Team
The Mobile Crisis Team works across existing program lines to quickly address acute crisis situations and arrive at a disposition that provides the best quality care in the least restrictive environment. The Team’s goals are to reduce involuntary mental retardation (202B) and mental health (202A) commitments via increased use of existing community resources, to reduce psychiatric hospital admissions, and to facilitate appropriate referrals across all program lines, ensuring access to a full array of community support services to aid in resolving personal crisis.

Rape Victim Services
Rape Victim Services are available to female and male victims of rape, attempted rape, and sexual abuse. Male and female advocates are available 24 hours a day to help the victim cope with the personal, medical and legal aspects of sexual assault and abuse. Advocates meet with the victim at a Pathways office, police departments, Hope’s Place and hospital emergency rooms. The toll free Help Line is available 24 hours a day for victims and significant others. Educational programs are available upon request.

Community Support Services
This service is designed to assist persons over 21 with persistent mental health problems who would benefit from case management services, skills development, and individual, family or group therapy. Illness education for families and consumers is also provided. Our psychiatrists are available for evaluation, consultation, and medication management. Community Support programs are available throughout the ten county region.

Housing
Pathways operates a 15-unit independent living complex, Evergreen Square, a 15-bed group home, Pollard Place, in Ashland, and a three-bedroom home for independent living in Mount Sterling, for residential services for persons with mental illness.

Outpatient Services
Pathways Outpatient Mental Health Services provide quality and confidential mental health care for people of all ages. We assist consumers by an array of modalities including individual counseling, school-based counseling, collateral services, intensive after-school therapy, and medication management. Brief counseling aimed at problem resolution is our focus. While any particular course of counseling may be brief, our commitment to our consumers is long term. Many people find it helpful to know that they may return in the future should other problems arise. Psychological assessments also are offered.

For more information, call
(606) 324-1141
Toll free in Kentucky
(800) 562-8909