Edwin I. Levin, LICSW, Hired as Director of Business Development by Prakash Ellenhorn

Online, February 11, 2012 (Newswire.com) - After a whirlwind "retirement," Ed Levin, who for 28 years handled outreach and referrals at Spruce Mountain Inn (VT) residential mental health facility, is using his marketing expertise to raise the profile of Prakash Ellenhorn, a private, primarily non-residential treatment program offering clients a multidisciplinary, highly individualized team approach as a proven-effective alternative to residential or hospital programs.

Mr. Levin brings unique assets to the job. In addition to his outreach work for Spruce Mountain Inn, he was, for six years, chairman of the Executive Committee of the American Residential Treatment Association (ARTA). As a result, Mr. Levin brings to his new post years of experience in referral development, in-depth knowledge of the nation's many styles of psychiatric treatment programs, and an extensive network of colleagues and friends within the mental health treatment community.

"I'm excited about continuing my connections and relationships with the wonderful people -- the experienced clinicians -- with whom I've developed professional friendships over many years," says Mr. Levin. "My experience both as a clinician and an administrator of an effective treatment program gives me great understanding of the treatment needs of a wide range of clients."

Prakash Ellenhorn is a Program for Assertive Community Treatment (PACT) team, offering the coordinated services of psychiatrists, nurses, therapists, social workers, vocational counselors and personal trainers to people with severe and persistent mental illness. Addressing the 'whole person' through a full range of treatment resources, often delivered in the client's own home, PACT is evidence-based and considered 'best practice' in community-based psychiatric care for persons with severe and persistent mental illness.

Mr. Levin, who has seen every treatment model in action, is enthusiastic about the PACT approach. "Treatment is offered in a way that preserves the individual's dignity and offers the sense of hope for recovery because clients live in the community and not in an institution. Also, this model allows treatment to be truly customized for each participant."

Mr. Levin's goal, as it has been before in his career, is to be a matchmaker - when the stakes are extremely high. "I want to make this excellent program well known enough so people for whom it is the right fit can find it," he says.

For more information on Prakash Ellenhorn, visit
www.prakashellenhorn.com or email [email protected]

To contact Edwin I. Levin, Director of Business Development,
email him at [email protected] or call him at (802) 922-3048

Prakash Ellenhorn is a private PACT (Program for Assertive Community Treatment) team, providing richly comprehensive, personalized and multidisciplinary psychiatric and psychosocial services to clients who, for the most part, live in their own apartments in the community. The PACT model is endorsed by both the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) and the National Institute of Mental Health as an effective evidence-based treatment, and as a 'best practice' in community mental health. Offering each client a balance of psychosocial and medical approaches, Prakash Ellenhorn is equally focused on relieving the ravages of stigma, loss of social role and institutionalization as on treating psychiatric illness. The program serves men and women, 18 years and up.