Welcome | 1 of 3 Compos Mentis is a day program that offers adults who have been diagnosed with a mental illness a place to work in community with others, enjoy the outdoors, and engage in purposeful activities under the supervision of staff members and trained volunteers. Compos Mentis (Latin for “in control of your mind”) is a response to illness, not a treatment program. Too ill for the pressures of paid work or the demands of schoolwork, or the responsibility to care for others, people still need someplace to go and something to do. Compos Mentis is be an environment that promotes recovery. We use the quiet, orderly discipline of farm work to help people develop the patience, self-confidence and hope that they need, take possession of their lives, and move on. Every aspect of Compos Mentis is designed to ease a person's return to school or work.
The program addresses a shortcoming in our health care system: It takes most people more time than they are given to adjust to a diagnosis of mental illness. Most people also need a healing environment to encourage that. When a peson becomes ill, his or her life often "stalls" for what become "lost years." Some people stall for the rest of their lives: They do not go on to finish school, make careers, enter important personal relationships, start families. Compos Mentis can offer the equivalent of a "jump start" in the life of someone who is ill. Compos Mentis is a place for adults to learn to live with illnesses such as depression, bipolar disorder, Asperger’s, schizo-affective disorder, schizophrenia, anxiety or panic disorder.
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