Transitional Resources is a mental health agency that helps provide a safe place for individuals suffering from mental illness. We provide outpatient, residential, housing and vocational services for approximately 300 mentally ill individuals annually in King County. Our outpatient case managers small caseloads allow our staff to have more contact with their clients. Our strategic plan is to continue with these small caseloads but increase our annual client census and provide more affordable housing to help keep individuals suffering from mental illness safe and off the streets. We need your help to ensure these services continue and to meet our goals at Transitional Resources.
According to King County, mental illness affects about 28 to 30 percent of the American population (King County, 2012). This disease process can completely change …show more content…
It will also go to expand the vocational program in our outpatient services to grow by helping clients ramp up to living wage jobs and increase our numbers from a total of 80 clients served per year to our goal of 120 clients in 2015.
Residential Services- Support would assist in filling in the gaps for clients obtaining support as our county funding has remained unchanged for the past six years though costs for services have continued to increase. Increases in funding would allow the agency to add staffing for residential services to intervene and improve the future of clients before they fall into homelessness or hospitalization and expand our success from 50 clients served per year to