Supported Employment

Everyone deserves to hold a position within the workforce, especially those with a serious mental illness. Our employment specialists would be more than happy to search the job market for a position related to your interests, number of hours you want to work, convenient location, and other factors based on your preferences. Found a perfect potential job? We can advocate for you to your employer! Our services don’t have to end after you’ve landed the position; we can help you develop your future career plan.

Housing Program

The goal of this program is to increase capacity and provide accessible, effective, comprehensive, coordinated, integrated, and evidence-based treatment services, peer support and other recovery support services for individuals with a serious mental illness, who are experiencing homelessness. The program should also provide linkages to health insurance, Medicaid, mainstream benefits and sustainable permanent housing.

• Assistance with identifying sustainable permanent housing.
• Provide evidence-based, integrated mental health and substance use interventions for COD treatment for enrolled individuals.
• Provide outreach case management or other strategies to address serious mental illness, serious emotional disturbance, and co-occurring health conditions and link with and retain individuals in housing and other necessary services.
• Engage and enroll the population(s) of focus in health insurance, Medicaid, and other benefit programs (e.g. SSI/SSDI, TANF, SNAP).
• Provide or assure linkage to and support engagement with recovery support services to improve access to and retention in services and to continue treatment gains. This may include some or all of the following as appropriate for each enrolled individual:
  • Vocational, child care, educational, and transportation services;
  • Independent living skills (e.g., budgeting and financial education);
  • Employment readiness, training and placement;
  • Crisis care;
  • Medication management;
  • Peer-related supports and services (e.g., peer-led or peer-supported activities and hiring of peer staff);
  • Discharge planning; and psychosocial rehabilitation services.

Therapeutic School

Therapeutic Services for Preschoolers (TSP) is available in our Garden City and Dodge City locations. This eight-week program consists of a psychosocial group curriculum designed to strengthen their mental and academic skills. They’ll learn to better handle their feelings, understand their anger, problem solve and develop social skills. TSP is located on site.

Compass Behavioral Health in Garden City and Dodge also works in conjunction with our respective school districts (Garden City USD 457 and Dodge City USD 443) to offer a Therapeutic Education Program.

Compass provides the program supervisor, a clerical position, and several case managers and mental health assistants. The school district provides the facility, the principal, the teachers and the paraprofessionals.

Dialectical Behavioral Therapy

Compass Behavioral Health is where you can turn to in your time of need. Developed by Marsha Linehan, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy is the gold standard for psychological treatment. Originally created for suicidal individuals, it is now offered to clients who experience substance dependence, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and eating disorders. Through weekly therapy, skills training groups and coaching calls, clients will develop a healthy perspective on life. Treatment typically lasts for a minimum of six months and lasts until you are ready to see the beauty life has to offer.