CLIENT DEVELOPMENT and COMMUNITY REINTEGRATION, with speaker Arturo Uribe, MSW, LCSW

Psynergy Programs promotes clients’ reintegration into community living by providing the necessary skills and supports individuals with severe and persistent mental illness need so they may lead satisfying and successful lives.  Psynergy Programs “client centered services” places emphasis on what our clients “want to do” and what they “would like to have happen." This includes freely chosen and supported rehabilitation, recreation and leisure activities.  By engaging in enjoyable activities of the client’s own interest and choosing, clients learn the importance of flexibility, problem-solving, decision-making, development of personal strengths and active membership in one's community.

Join us at the Transitional Living Center in the Community Room for dinner and a discussion of how to make this scenario a reality for someone close to you.  RSVP to Lynda Kaufmann  408-456-8280 ext 11

Some possible benefits of these skills groups are learning to be in the moment instead of worrying about the future or past, learning the purpose of emotions and how to manage them, developing relationships where all involved are getting their needs met, and developing acceptance of distressing situations.

To learn more about Balanced Living or any other program at Psynergy, please visit our Contact page or send an email to info@psynergy.org.

This is an exciting plan for Cielo Vista.  A team of landscapers and architects were employed to finalize our vision which includes a new entrance with a covered structure and a walled-in front that will allow privacy for meditation, groups, family visits and just enjoying the sun. There is also a similar structure on the Elm Street side that will allow residents to exit into a private outdoor dining room from the indoor dining area.  Over 50 trees with be planted to add shading, privacy and beauty.  The project is planned to start in mid-November and is scheduled to be completed in April of 2010.

At our first meeting we introduced Psynergy owners/backgrounds - their mission and vision for this unique facility.  Our plan to meet every other month at Nueva Vista and will have an agenda that is recommended by families and consumers--the persons involved in this group.  On alternate months we will meet in Tulare county.

Proposed topics include:  Meet the Doctor/Ask the Doctor;  Meet the Nurse/Staff - Let's Get Acquainted; Educational Information-Serious Mental Illnesses; Conservatorship - Understanding the Conservator's Role and Your Role; Patient Rights Advocates - their Role; Family Rights Advocates - Their Role; Family Members - Our role;  Communication Skills; and Health Care Directives.

To Join Us, please call Jean Edwards at (408) 465-8280 or email her at jedwards@psynergy.org.

Staff, residents, family members and the founding partners joined together on June 5 to celebrate Nueva Vista’s fourth anniversary , and the opening of the new family lounge.

The luau theme was “a blast”  with welcome leis and a menu that included a roast pig, baked mahi-mahi, frozen Hawaiian Style beverages and, wait for it—VOLCANO CAKE!  Some of Psynergy’s own clinicians and doctors provided live music for the hula dancers. Congratulations to everyone at Nueva Vista on four years of growth and friendship.