For Caregivers

The admissions process to our residential mental health community at Hopewell is responsive, caring and confidential. Our admissions staff guides you every step of the way and, in most cases, does a great deal of the footwork for you. We encourage you to contact our admissions team at 440.426.2009 for a more comprehensive overview of our admissions process.

We believe that everyone can experience success, find a life of purpose and feel hope.

Who Hopewell Helps

Hopewell residents are 18 years of age or older, have a primary diagnosis of a mood or thought disorder and express a readiness for residential mental health treatment. Typical diagnoses include schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder and major depression.

Success at Hopewell depends upon many factors, but in general we have found that people gain the most benefit from our therapeutic residential mental health community when they are:

• Comfortable living in a rural, farm setting for several months
• Willing to accept medication
• Interested in learning how to live with and get along with people
• Accepting of physical work and community participation
• Interested in increasing their knowledge, understanding and acceptance of their mental illness

Some of our residents may be recovering from drug or alcohol abuse. They must, however, have an absence of active abuse. Individuals should have some self-care skills, be medication compliant and be in reasonable physical health. For a complete list of admissions criteria, please talk with our admissions staff at 440.426.2009 or send us a message.

From gardening to cooking to animal care, vocational opportunities at Hopewell help residents find strengths they didn't know they had.

Length of Stay

The typical length of stay is five to nine months. Some residents, however, require longer stays depending on their treatment plans and progress. For more information about longer stays, please contact our admissions staff at 440.426.2009 or send us a message.

Program Overview

We offer a residential mental health program. The theraputic farm environment is a key part of our success. Organized in work teams, residents work with staff to assume the major responsibilities for all aspects of the farm's daily work. In addition to daily work crews that keep the farm functioning, programming includes:

• Meditation 
• Spirituality
• Education
• Money management
• Independent living skills (meal planning, shopping, cooking, healthy living)
• Interpersonal relationship skills
• Psychiatric evaluations
• Medication monitoring and management
• Case-managed integrated individual plans
• Therapeutic work activity
• Individual and group counseling
• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
• Art Therapy and creative expression
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
• Dialectical Behavioral Therapy skills
• Ecotherapy and nature studies
• EMDR
• Equine-assisted learning
• Sandplay Therapy
• Family therapy and transition services

See a sample of our daily schedule.

Our clinical team is active in resident and family counseling, case coordination, psychiatric and medication management and discharge transitions to ensure the highest level of care at Hopewell's mental health facility.

Studies have shown that people with schizophrenia who engage in meaningful work experience improved medication compliance, symptom reduction and fewer relapses.

Financial Considerations

Hopewell is a non-profit, private-pay facility. Most residents use private pay to cover the cost of services, but some use a combination of private pay and a limited period of insurance benefits. Please contact our Admissions Department at 440-426-2009 to explore the affordability of our services.

Hopewell also makes every effort to obtain any potential insurance coverage for individuals who have private insurance that covers residential mental health services in their plans. Residential mental health care can cost from $10,000 to more than $60,000 per month. Thanks to the generosity of our donors, we are very close to the lower end of this range.

Hopewell is one of very few facilities of its kind in the country that provides comprehensive mental health treatment in a working farm setting.