HEART

Ensuring Caregiver Success

The Health Education and Aging Resource Team (HEART) provides free professional, high quality in-service education in nursing homes, adult care homes, family care homes, senior centers, home health agencies, adult day cares, adult day health, as well as other community-based organizations.

Examples include but are not limited to:

• Community Agencies
• Long-Term Care Facilities
• Senior Centers
• Home Care Agencies
• Department of Social Services
• Nursing Homes
• Faith-based Organizations
• Law Enforcement
• Emergency Personnel
• Volunteer Organizations
• Domestic Violence Organizations

Therapeutic Alternatives helps caregivers by providing education about mental illness but they do not respond to emergency or crisis situations. They assist groups through:

• Provide training and education that enhances the understanding of mental health, substance use and dementia needs in older adults.
• Ensure caregivers and service providers understand and know how to assess escalating behaviors to prevent psychiatric hospitalizations.
• Offer required trainings and contact hours to Long Term Care staff at no cost.
• Increase the ability of adults living with a mental illness to live successfully in their community with a trained caregiver.