Whole Health & Wellness
In our whole health & wellness program, we apply the mind, body and spirit approach. We understand that we must address medical issues in addition to mental health and substance abuse for our clients to reach the most optimal level of life satisfaction and happiness.
Genesis Alliance for Mental Wellness, LLC partners with some of the most prestigious health care providers to ensure that our clients receive the best care possible. On this journey, our case managers, whole health & wellness coaches, and nurses collaboratively work to access external medical services, facilitate health referrals, ensure clients obtain such services, and discuss meaning of medical results, and follow-up plans and reservices.
Our whole health & wellness coaches assist our clients with setting personal expectations by introducing health objectives as an approach to accomplishing overall life goals, helping identify personal and meaningful motivation, and health/wellness self-management.
Through guidance and assistance, our clients learn to structure their path to prevention, healthcare, and wellness; partner with staff to navigate the health care system; develop their own natural support network which will promote wellness goals; create solutions to overcome barriers which prevent healthcare engagement (e.g. transportation, food stamps, shelter, medications, safe environments in which to practice healthy choices, etc.); link with other health and wellness resources (physical activity, fitness, healthy/nutritional food); and access health care through the use of technology.
We know that clients having the necessary skills to address their own health issues and concerns is pivotal. As a result, our whole health & wellness team provides supports including:
- Sharing basic health information which is pertinent to the individual’s personal health;
- Promoting awareness regarding health indicators;
- Assisting the individual in understanding the idea of whole health and the role of health screening;
- Supporting behavior changes for health improvement;
- Making available wellness tools (e.g. relaxation response, positive imaging, education, wellness toolboxes, daily action plans, stress management, etc.) to supporting the individual’s identified health goals;
- Providing concrete examples of basic health changes and work with the individual in his/her selection of incremental health goals;
- Teaching/modeling/demonstrating skills such as nutrition, physical fitness, healthy lifestyle choices;
- Promoting and offering healthy environments and skills-development to assist the individual in modifying his/her own living environments for wellness;
- Supporting the individual as they practice creating healthy habits, personal self-care, self-advocacy and health communication (including but not limited to disclosing history, discussing prescribed medications, asking questions in health settings, etc.);
- Supporting the individual to identify and understand how his/her family history, genetics, etc. contribute to their overall health picture;
- Supporting the individual in understanding medication and related health concerns; and
- Promoting health skills, considering fitness, healthy choices, nutrition, healthy meal preparation, teaching early warning signs/symptoms which indicate need for health intervention, etc.
- Globally, more than 70% of people with mental illness receive no treatment from health care providers.
- People with mental disorder are more likely to develop a physical disease in comparison to the general population.
- People with a major psychiatric disorder are expected to live 10–15-years less due to a medical illness.
- People living with severe mental health disorders were 2.8 times more likely to have lost their teeth than people in the general population.