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8 <br />Round-the-clock crisis psychiatric intervention services for all persons over 13 years <br />of age. <br />• Adult day treatment services, including two different group programs. <br />Intensive support for daily living assistance, short term psychotherapy, <br />vocational and housing assistance, medication monitoring, and linkages with <br />other service providers. <br />• Outpatient clinics focusing on treating the whole person in community <br />settings. Charles Webster Potter Place, a clubhouse for pre-vocational, social <br />experiences, and psycho social rehabilitation for 40 to 60 members. Five <br />community treatment programs for 39 clients, one of them based in <br />Lexington, and supported housing for 68 adult clients in individual living <br />arrangements. <br />• A variety of programs and services for mentally retarded adults, <br />including two group homes in Lexington. <br /> During fiscal year 2002, Edinburg provided mental health services to 96 residents <br />of Lexington. While 82 were whites, the remainder were truly multiethnic. The group <br />included youths from 14 to 20 years of age as well as some adults. The principal services <br />rendered to these 96 included crisis interventions and outpatient counseling. <br /> Edinburg collaborates with Emerson Hospital, Eliot Community Mental Health <br />Center, Wayside/RePlace, and a range of individual mental health service providers. It <br />bid, incidentally, on the service contract funded by the Town of Lexington that went to <br />Eliot Community Health Services before it reverted to RePlace. Its collaboration with the <br />Lexington Police Department has been especially fruitful in recent years. Typically, a local <br />police officer phones and brings in a person referred by family or friends as in an <br />emotional crisis. Edinburg gave an award to the Lexington Police for the dedication and <br />quality of their services this year. <br /> <br />