Bidwell Care Center is a 150 bed skilled nursing facility located in the greater Manchester area. Bidwell offers a wide range of medical and behavioral health services designed to promote optimal wellness. The “Stepping Stones” Behavioral Health Program at Bidwell Care Center utilizes resident-centered treatment planning and offers a comprehensive schedule of interdisciplinary rehabilitative therapies.

Community reintegration occurs in an incremental process whereby resident chosen long-term goals are broken down into smaller, concrete, more readily achievable objectives that can be accomplished in a step-wise fashion. These Stepping Stones enhance motivational consistency by providing challenges that can be achieved without delay, and are manageable rather than overwhelming.

The Behavioral Health Program consists of a combination of process/insight oriented groups and psycho educational groups. Included among the groups on the weekly schedule are: relapse prevention, coping skill identification and development, solution focused psychotherapy, motivational enhancement, and the physiology of chemical dependence. Other rehabilitative therapies, that are offered by occupational therapy, recreation, and social services include medication management, tai chi/yoga, power walks, money management, leisure skills identification and meal preparation. The Stepping Stones program strongly emphasizes increases in social and occupational functioning, and as a means to the end, has recently added an educational program to be interdisciplinary schedule. The educational program offers literacy classes to improve client’s reading/writing, and G.E.D. classes for client’s interested in acquiring their G.E.D. or strengthening their academic skills.