| Address: | 403 N Susan St, Santa Ana, CA 92703, USA |
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| Postal code: | 92703 |
| Phone: | (714) 480-0025 |
| Website: | https://www.johnhenry.org/ |
The John Henry Foundation is incredibly unique. The dedicated staff and board volunteers provide a safe and caring environment in which, those suffering from mental illness, can live and thrive. Residents and families of residents are treated with dignity, patience, and understanding. Simple things that are very difficult to find in other group homes serving the same population. Absolutely 5 STARS!!!
Orange County Register, April 14, 2014
UC IRVINE VOICES
People with schizophrenia find help, home, hope
In 2014, the John Henry Foundation will celebrate its 25th year of providing mental health care that works for psychiatrically disabled adults.
John Henry is the only facility of its kind in Orange County, providing long- term housing, psychiatric and psychological care, job training and socialization tailored specifically for adults with schizophrenia and their families.
Many Orange County residents with mental illness languish in jails or hospitals or lead homeless lives on the streets at great cost to the community.
And every week brings news of some tragic incident involving individuals suffering with schizophrenia.
A fortunate few men and women with this devastating illness have found hope, and are leading meaningful lives at John Henry Foundation’s privately operated residential program in Santa Ana.
The UCI School of Medicine and John Henry Foundation are in their fifth year of an affiliation providing a unique opportunity for hands-on training of medical residents in psychiatry.
The program enables doctors from UCI’s Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior to work, during their final year of residency, at the foundation’s home for adults with schizophrenia.
This unique arrangement provides medical residents with an opportunity to work with patients and their families in a more intimate and long-term relationship than is possible during normal office visits. They also conduct group therapy, which reaches out to multiple patients at a time. As medical director of the John Henry Foundation, I supervise their training, as well as the psychiatric care of John Henry’s clients.
Several colleges send graduate students majoring in psychology and counseling to learn best practices in their field as interns at the foundation.
The foundation also has a cooperative effort with Goodwill Industries in which mentally ill residents receive job training, helping them to rebuild life
While much attention was focused on the tragic death of schizophrenia sufferer Kelly Thomas at the hands of police officers in Fullerton, Dr. Andrew Kami, JHF’s clinical director, conducted training for the entire Santa Ana Police Department on techniques for dealing with mental illness on the streets.
Kami relates that, “within the law enforcement community, the behavior by those who are delusional is often one of the more difficult things to understand.”
JHF Chief Executive Officer Mindy Andrews is a leader with significant non-profit agency experience. She is proud that the foundation receives only about 10 percent of its funding from government agencies and the remainder from private sources including philanthropies and donations from friends and families. “We could use more public funding, but being private also leaves us freer to set innovative goals with our residents for their own recoveries.” she says.
All of the foundation’s approximately 30 beds, in its six bungalows, generally are filled with long-term residents. They are free to leave, but elect to make John Henry their home.
There is an acute shortage of facilities for the mentally ill and the foundation has a waiting list for entrance into its program.
The foundation has acquired another half-acre of land adjacent to its current campus in Santa Ana. The staff is looking forward to modifying the two houses on that site to accommodate another twelve JHF residents. Members of the foundation’s board of trustees and advisory board of local civic and business leaders are working with the city on plans for the much needed expansion.
Dr. Rimal Bera is a clinical professor of psychiatry at UC Irvine and medical director at John Henry Foundation, a center for the treatment of schizophrenia. He was recently selected the 2014 OCMA Physician of the Year by the Orange County Medical Association.
RIMAL BERA
PSYCHIATRY PROFESSOR
One of the best facilities probably in the English speaking world to allow Schizophrenic patient to recover. JHF makes them feel safe and therefore psychological therapy can be effective to cope their incurable vulnerabilities.
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