Halfway Home

About Halfway Home

The Richmond Fellowship’s Halfway Home “Vishwas” in Greater Noida offers residential care for both male and female members suffering from Schizophenia. The normal period of stay for members at Halfway Home is 18 months.

The Halfway Home building has a capacity to accomodate 20 residents. It has bedrooms, lobbies, dining hall, recreation room, activity hall,counselling room, computer room, library, staff room, kitchen and 3 lawns.

Rehabilitation

The Fellowship follows therapeutic community approach for rehabilitation.The members live in Halfway Home duly supervised by professional staff. The structured rehabilitation programme assists residents in learning/regaining skills which include personal hygiene, housekeeping, taking medicines without prompting, participation in various activities, involvement in running of house such as maintenance of library, keeping records of office and planning menu for the mess. This improves their community living skills which help them to lead life with minimal assistance from their families/carers.

Recreation & Leisure

The residents also attend hobby classes, play indoor and outdoor games, participate in leisure activities like reading books and periodicals in library, listening to music and watching Television. They are also taken outdoors regularly for recreation such as picnics, movies and lunch in restaurants. Functions are organized at Vishwas in which the inmates participate actively.

Counselling

Therapeutic services are provided by a team of committed and caring mental health counsellors from the field of social work and psychology. The counsellors help members make informed decisions about themselves. They also keep client records for providing information to carers and the psychiatrist who is treating the client.