What is Caramore?

Caramore Community is a structured support program for adults with mental illness. We exist for the purposes of promoting wellness, managing illness, and facilitating the skills needed to live and work in the community.

Caramore offers a complete package to empower adults with mental illness attain their own meaningful and successful independence.
Here's how we do it ---

• We utilize a residential program to help our participants develop and enhance their basic living and coping skills

• We designed an employment program that gets our participants in some type of "immediate" work situation and develop job skills towards community employment

• We offer sound financial and budgeting counsel that guarantees our participants will save money and become equipped to live within their individual means

• We make sure that all our participants have access to and utilize the personalized mental health treatment that they need

The Caramore Program combines all of these concepts into a unified and cohesive package. We maintain a solid structure for all to follow, while personalizing the facets for every individual. If this sounds like a unique concept, well, it is. Ultimately, one would be hard-pressed to find an organization that addresses, not one or two, but all of these challenging areas.

Caramore addresses all of these concerns, and with extreme professionalism and over 30 years of experience. Specifically, Caramore assists individuals by utilizing a basic “step-up” approach to residential independence, and community employment. Also we assist individuals in establishing psychiatric and physical care, all-the-while learning how to budget finances and receiving ongoing benefits’ counseling.

Caramore exists to focus on real-life challenges that demand a practical, structured approach, so that independence is no longer just an abstract concept, but an attainable reality.

The Stages of Caramore

Tier 1

Beginning the Caramore Program. Establishing a daily work regimen with Caramore work crews. Achieving some stability with medications and the coordination of mental health treatment. For most clients, living in one of the Caramore apartments, while establishing personal goals, and having close supervision with Residential Advisors

Tier 2

Continually building on consistent work routine. Seeking and securing of community employment. Further stabilization of mental health treatment. For most clients, continuing on in supervised apartments with a gradual lessening of supervision as goals are met


Tier 3

Achieving a soildly consistent pattern of stability. Working independently in competitive jobs. Moving into community apartments or into long-term leases with Caramore peers. Phasing out and reduction of Caramore services


Caramore Connections

Independent living situations. Cessation of formal Caramore services. Less reliance on Caramore staff --- more networking and support with Caramore alumnae. Mentoring of others in Caramore program