Resource & Job Readiness
Compass Health Center's Resource & Job Readiness services are aimed at supporting individuals within some of our Young Adult and Adult programs with navigation transitions, strengthening executive functioning skills, connecting patients to supports, and empowering them to add structure and meaning to their daily lives.
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What is Resource & Job Readiness?
If you and your treatment team decide, you will be paired with a resource therapist who will partner with you and your treatment team to identify your specific needs in creating or maintaining structure outside of Compass. Our team of dedicated resource therapists utilize motivational interviewing techniques as well as several concepts from our core evidence-based therapies to support you in making progress on your goals. Our ultimate hope is that patients who engage in this supportive, individualized service feel empowered to tackle challenges that have felt too difficult in the past and gain the executive functioning skills necessary to better manage their daily lives.
- Paying attention
- Organizing and planning
- Starting tasks and staying focused on them
- Managing emotions
- Keeping track of what you’re doing
Types of Executive Function
- Attentional control: Concentration, focus, and attentiveness
- Cognitive flexibility: Switching mental tasks, thinking about multiple things at once
- Cognitive inhibition: Ignoring information that is not important
- Inhibitory control: Acting appropriately in certain situations, ignoring impulses
- Working memory: Keeping other thoughts in the back of your mind while performing tasks or engaging in conversation
Reasons Why These Skills Are Important in Mental Health Treatment
Mental health symptoms can inhibit an individual’s job readiness and executive functioning skills. When an individual has trouble with executive function skills, they may struggle with different areas of life, including school, work, and relationships. Difficulties with executive function skills can impact one’s ability to follow through with planning, prioritizing, organizing, paying attention to details, memory retention, and controlling emotional reactions.
How Resource & Job Readiness Services Integrate Into Compass Programming
Offered to individuals in some of the programs for Compass’s Young Adult and Adult patients Mood & Anxiety PHP/IOP programs, resource services provide multifaceted treatment for those who struggle to follow through with academic, professional, or social commitments. Resource therapists work with patients to develop an individualized resource plan. Plans could include goals related to school, work, volunteering, recreational activities, discharge planning, and more. Resource sessions help individuals identify barriers to achieving their goals and apply the skills learned in group therapy to continue moving forward.
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Compass saved my life! I came into Compass with suicidal ideations and no hope. After a couple of weeks of being in the program, I did not have those thoughts anymore. Compass helped me change my mindset, from a negative pattern of thoughts to a more positive and optimistic frame of mind.
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