Residential Treatment Facility Fund

Treating and healing mental health diagnoses and addiction occurs most effectively in a homelike, nurturing environment. Infusing belief in each person’s potential combined with specialized therapeutic resources in a homelike environment brings transformative new beginnings to hundreds of individuals each year. This therapeutic, nurturing approach is just part of the success made possible in our Residential Treatment Facilities (RTFs). 

Gulf Coast JFCS has launched a special Residential Treatment Facility Fund to direct philanthropic contributions to help ensure our Residential Treatment Facilities can remain home-like spaces. From a fresh coat of paint to new sturdy and comfortable furniture to new floors, the therapeutic communities at Adele Gilbert, Darlington & ARTS Residential Treatment Facilities need our support to remain trusted resources for healing. 

Adele Gilbert Residential Treatment Facility

Adele Gilbert Residential Treatment Facility is a 16‑bed-level 2 state-licensed residential treatment program in Pasco County for adults who have a diagnosed mental illness and may have co-occurring substance abuse issues.  The program accepts non-violent forensic referrals that would be better served in a community setting.  Services include medication management and education, recovery-oriented life skills training, psychosocial rehabilitation, substance abuse counseling, individual therapy, and other supports for up to three or eight months.

Adult Residential Treatment and Stabilization

Adult Residential Treatment & Stabilization (ARTS) provides a supportive community-based living environment.  The residents are individuals 18 and older that have an extensive history of severe and persistent mental illness (SPMI). ARTS, a 16-bed facility, serves individuals who can live with supports in a structured living situation. Therapeutic activities are developed to provide a safe, nurturing system in which each resident may reach his or her potential for independent living. The primary focus of the program is to assist the residents in developing skills that will enhance their quality of life and improve their daily functioning, interpersonal skills, and potential for more independent living. Scheduled visits to local cultural activities, vocational training opportunities when appropriate, and outings which allow for physical recreation are all key to true community reintegration and genuine personal growth.

Community Assistance & Life Liaison Program (CALL)

The Community Assistance and Life Liaison program (CALL) is a program led by Gulf Coast JFCS in partnership with St. Petersburg Police Department. A team of clinical staff and community navigators are dispatched to non-violent, non-criminal calls to provide a therapeutic, wrap-around response.  The CALL program responds to intoxication, drug overdose, mental health crisis, suicide intervention, truancy, homeless complaints, and neighborhood disputes.

Forward Together

Forward Together helps youth, and their families, who are experiencing criminal legal involvement to to reduce recidivism, reduce further criminal involvement for siblings in the household, and reduce further escalation of criminal severity as a result of voluntary participation. 

Forward Together provides individualized wrap-around support services to youth and their families including:

• Providing navigational support including:
• Counseling and other psychiatric services,
• Emergency Financial Assistance,
• Reducing short-term barriers to immediate employment,
• Coaching and individualized parenting education,
• Referrals to shelters and additional housing referrals,
• Referrals to additional Gulf Coast JFCS programs as appropriate,
• Additional external services as deemed appropriate to meet youth and family needs.
• Reducing transportation barriers and other systemic barriers to use of community resources.

Operating under the CALL partnership between Gulf Coast JFCS and the St. Petersburg Police Department, youth served by Forward Together are referred by the St. Petersburg Police Department and reside within Pinellas County.

The Community Assistance and Life Liaison program (CALL) is a program led by Gulf Coast JFCS in partnership with . A team of clinical staff and community navigators are dispatched to non-violent, non-criminal calls to provide a therapeutic, wrap-around response.  The CALL program responds to intoxication, drug overdose, mental health crisis, suicide intervention, truancy, homeless complaints, and neighborhood disputes.

Community Support Hubs

Community Support Hubs, or Hubs, provide accessible care addressing the needs of the community by providing trauma-informed behavioral health, case management services, and assertive outreach.

Led by Gulf Coast JFCS with collaborating partner People Empowering and Restoring Communities (PERC), Community Support Hubs are a City of St. Petersburg American Rescue Plan (ARPA) project funded through the Pinellas Community Foundation.

Darlington Residential Treatment Facility

Prevention and Intervention Services

Prevention and Intervention Services provide substance abuse services for adults in Pinellas, Pasco, and Hillsborough counties. We offer presentations focusing on the prevention of substance abuse and increasing healthy behaviors in our communities. For individuals who present with risk factors for substance misuse, we provide in- home services for individualized screening, assessment, and intervention through education, short-term problem solving, advocacy, referral, and follow-up to reduce risk factors and the need for more extensive treatment.

Depression Warning Signs

• Being easily upset
• Social isolation
• Lack of energy
• Increased forgetfulness
• Neglecting self-care
• Crying easily
• Believing that one can’t do anything worthwhile
• Feeling hopeless or overwhelmed
• Thinking life isn’t worth living

Quick Response Team

The Quick Response Team (QRT) is a program led by Gulf Coast JFCS in partnership with Pinellas County Human Services Department and Pinellas County Safety and Emergency Services. The Quick Response Team comprises both case managers and peer specialists who respond to referred individuals who were recently treated with naloxone or who are at risk of overdose. Services include risk assessment, safety planning, peer support, community stabilization, and a Naloxone Education and leave behind.

Supported Housing/Living Program

Supported Housing/Living Program assists over 75 individuals with serious mental illness or co-occurring substance abuse issues to live independently in the community.  Services include obtaining affordable housing, developing readiness for work or volunteer activities, vocational job and coaching, and helping to strengthen daily living skills.  Services are provided in Hillsborough, Pasco, and Pinellas Counties.

Community & Home-Based Rehab

Assisting consumers with developing goals, locating affordable housing, developing a budget, and linkage to outside services as needed.

Support Services

Providing direct assistance with daily living skills, side-by-side individual support, and mentoring.

Vocational Coaching

Assisting members with skills required to interview for and obtain a job, and provides support once employment is obtained.

Referrals Come From

• Residential treatment facilities
• Psychiatric units
• Jails
• Other community service providers

All referrals must have a completed Supported Housing Application in addition to a recent psychiatric evaluation.

Download a Supported Housing Application