Mental Retardation Services
Clinical Services
The following services are not provided at all program sites. Please call for details.
L.E.A.P
L.E.A.P. (Living Environment Adapted for People) serves adults who are 22 years + and have completed high school. This program is designed to serve people whose physical limitations preclude independence in activities of daily living. Individuals who are appropriate for this program demonstrate significant impairments in mobility and/or communication. Hours: Monday-Friday, 8-3 For more information call: (409)784-5564
Therapeutic Recreation
Therapeutic Recreation provides a variety of opportunities for individuals with mental retardation to participate in community recreationl/leisure activities. Cardiovascular fitness and skills acquisition are also offered. An afterschool program and summer day camp are also available to special education students within the public school system. Hours: Monday-Friday, 8-5:30 (varies depending on activities) For more information call: (409)784-5528
Psychology Services
Psychology offers the following services: Assessment and evaluation; counseling including individual, family and group therapy; and behavior treatment including behavioral interventions and behavior programs. Monitoring of psychoative medications may also be provided to inform the psychiatrist about changes in behavior and/or symptoms. Hours: Monday-Friday, 8-5 For more information call: (409) 784-5666
Communications Therapy
Communication Therapy provides services to individuals with hearing and language impairments. A speech language pathologist and deaf education teacher conduct assessments for communications deficits. Communication skills are enhanced using a variety of adaptive equipment such as computers and switches. Hours: Monday-Friday, 8-5 For more information call: (409)784-5666
Physical Habilitation Therapies
Occupational Therapy provides services to individuals whose abilities to cope with daily living tasks are threatened or impaired by developmental, physical and/or psychological disabilities. The therapist develops direct treatment procedures to restore, reinforce, enhance and promote independent functioning as well as facilitating learning skills for adaptation in work and home settings. Physical Therapy uses various modalities to assess, prevent, correct and alleviate movement by dysfunction and pain from injury, disease, or physical deformities. The therapist evaluates the individual and develops treatment through preventative and therapeutic procedures and services that attempt to improve functioning. Hours: Monday-Friday, 8-5 For more information call: (409)784-5539
The following services are not provided at all program sites. Please call for details.
Community Living Skills
Community Living Skills assists persons with severe or profound mental retardation in offering necessary skills training in the areas of motor, communicative, cognitive, and social development. Evolving skills is a special classroom component designed for school-age eligible individuals. Hours: Monday-Friday, 8-3 For more information call: (409)784-5514
Home Services
Home services offers skills training and habilitation services to adults and/or their caregivers in the home or community setting. areas of motor, communicative, cognitive, social and affective development are addressed in an age appropriate manner while assisting the individual to be as independent as possible in a family and community environment. Hours: Monday-Friday, 8-5 or as arranged For more information call: (409)784-5597
HOPE and SKY
The HOPE (Helping Older People Emerge) program in Beaumont and SKY (Seniors Keeping Young) program in Port Arthur offer social interaction and activities on a voluntary basis to older individuals (55+) with developmental disabilities through community senior citizen projects and activities. Hours: Monday-Friday (4 hours a day, two or three days per week) For more information call: (409)784-5597
Senior Skills
Senior Skills offers social activities and interaction with older individuals (55+) in community settings with other seniors and/or those with developmental disabilities. Programming offers semi-structured activities on campus and in the community. Hours: Monday-Friday, 8-3 For more information call: (409)784-5597
Service Coordination
Service Coordination begins when an individual requests assistance and continues throughout their relationship with the center. Service Coordination is provided to assist individuals in gaining access to medical, social, educational, and other appropriate services that will help them achieve quality of life and community participation acceptable to each individual. Hours: Monday-friday, 8-5 For more information call: (409)784-5564
In Home and Family Support
In Home and Family Support is designed to provide funds to individuals or their families for the purchase of supported living services and/or goods, which are unavailable through any other resource. Items requested must be specifically linked to the person's disability, either supporting the recipient in his or her own home or assisting the family to maintain the person in the family home. Hours: Monday-Friday, 8-5 For more information call: (409)784-5564
The following services are not provided at all program sites. Please call for details.
Respite Care
Respite Care is the opportunity for the family of an individual with mental retardation or developmental disabilities to res and be relieved from the daily demands of caring for that individual. Respite Care is divided into the following three categories: In-Home Respite: Services are provided in the home of the consumer. Services may be provided through a variety of methods including contracted staff, contracts with families, or Spindletop staff. Hours: As scheduled. Out-of-Home Respite: Services are delivered out of the home on Spindletop MHMR's North Campus for short-term residential care, and are available from 24 hours up to 30 days. Hours:24 hours a day/ 7 days a week. Partial Day Respite: Services are delivered out of the home on Spindletop's North Campus for short-term residential from two hours to less than 24 hours. Hours: 7 days a week, 8a.m.-Midnight. For more information call: (409)784-5575
Intermediate Care Facility ( ICF-MR)
ICF-MR homes provide a wide variety of services based on client needs, which vary according to age, level of mental retardation, developmental disability and physical ability. In addition to providing a home like environment with personal and support services, ICF-MR homes provide a continuous program of active treatment to assist the resident with increasing skills needed for independent living. ICF-MR services are provided at the Jo Ann Fries in Hardin County and Tenth Street Homes in Jefferson County. At the Jo Ann Fries Home services are provided for eight women with mild to moderate mental retardation. The Tenth Street Home provides care for six men in the range of moderate to profound mental retardation. The residents at each home have access to the Center’s full array of other services and programs. Hours: 24 hours a day. For additional information call: (409)784-5469
Home and Community- Based Services (HCS)
The HCS Program provides individualized services to eligible people living in their family’s home, their own homes, foster homes or other community settings such as small group homes where no more that four persons live. The program components are designed to assure the individual’s health and welfare in the community and to supplement rather than replace the individual’s natural supports. Hours: 24 hours a day. For additional information call: (409) 784-5469
The following services are not provided at all program sites. Please call for details.
Vocational Training
Vocational Training provides opportunities to adults with mental retardation and/or developmental disabilities to gain work habits necessary to secure and maintain competitive employment. This training is provided through in-house contacts, enclaves, mobile crews and vocational client worker positions in conjunction with personal-social adjustment training and pre-employment training. Hours: Monday-Friday, 8-5 For more information call: (409)838-3494
Job Quest (Supported Employment)
All applicants for this program are viable for competitive community employment with the appropriate job match. Staff assists the consumer in identifying job interests through job exploration activities. The consumer will be provided with job coach assistance as well as follow up contacts as needed. Competitive employment will be at a pay scale no less than minimum wage. Hours: Monday-Friday, 8-5 or as scheduled For more information call: (409)784-5429
Transition Services
Transition Services involves assisting area schools' Life Skills students to develop work skills and to develop an employment plan through attendance at ARD (Admission, Review and Dismissal) meetings. The transition team works cooperatively with the schools to educate students, parents and school personnel on the philosophy of Supported Employment. Hours: Monday-Friday, 8-5 For more information call: (409)784-5455
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