Our Services

General Company Information

The Therapeutic Residential Care Services (TRCS) Inc. has been providing outpatient mental health services and residential care services; Independent, Supportive Living, and Respite Care to seniors with or without dementia or adults with traumatic brain injuries, mental and developmental disabilities thru our therapeutic residential care facilities in Contra Costa, and Alameda Counties. We work with each individual based on their needs or level of care they require along with their family members and other agencies involved in the care of those individuals. All the research has shown that when people with dementia and chronic illnesses are provided with the best support systems then they can live a meaningful life. We offer loving and compassionate services through our dedicated and experienced staff, fostering adequate recovery, growth, and creating meaning in life.

Our Therapeutic homes promote behaviors that are conducive to community living with a special focus on negative symptoms of psychosis.

Our Philosophy

We develop certain habits, attitudes, and behavior patterns in the course of our lives. Some of the social or emotional, and cultural programming serves us well and other(s) make our lives difficult. We provide an accepting environment in which the client/resident can be himself/herself and experience his/her usual ways of relating and accomplishing tasks at his or her own pace. S/he does not need to make punitive judgments toward his/her own behavior or that of others. On the other hand, one can learn from every experience and develop new and more satisfying skills, which will bring success and happiness to oneself and the people with whom one relates.

The Mindset of Staff

• People have the inherent potential for ongoing growth and maturation.
• That psychological pain, dysfunction, or symptoms are making us aware that there is some arrest in our ability to be engaged and fulfilled in life.
• That therapeutic wisdom and experience of our past generations demonstrate that the ingredients of creativity and growth are: encouragement, unconditional acceptance, and a therapeutic milieu in which one can freely re-experience him or her and learn new ways to deal with the pain and suffering, s/he has experienced in the past.

We are committed and dedicated to applying our knowledge and experience in reducing behavioral problems in order to create stability in the client’s living and working situations. The change in behavior that comes with improved interaction with others has a domino effect. Enhanced psychosocial functioning brings happiness and well-being to the client. Families may feel confident that their loved one is content and is doing well.

Friends and significant others will experience deeper and more satisfying relationships with the consumer. Finally, the agencies that serve the consumer can remain focused on fostering the client’s independence. Our involvement on the team offers the client an opportunity to realize his/her potential for long-term, satisfying relationships.

Outpatient Services: Initial Psychodiagnostics Assessment, Individual Therapy, Family Therapy, Group Therapy, Violence or Suicide Risk Assessment, Dementia Assessment, Inappropriate Behavioral management and consultation with private and public agencies to build teams and create a violence or hostility free work

Corporate Structure

Dr. Harmesh Kumar is the President & CEO of Therapeutic Residential Care Services, Inc. TRCS has a dedicated team in Contra Costa, and Alameda, Counties. The head corporate office is located in the City of Concord, CA.

Experience

Dr. Kumar is the President of the Therapeutic Residential Care Services Inc. He has 40 years of experience in the mental health field including working with prison populations with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Dr. Kumar also founded a non-profit mental health agency, the Neurobehavioral and Psychological Institute (NPI), in 1993, which later changed its name to the Hume Center. Dr. Kumar served its president until Aug. 2004. He is the clinical supervisor of all staff providing consulting services. He has a Ph.D. in clinical neuropsychology from the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India, and completed his post-doctoral fellowship in the clinical neuropsychology from the department Neurobehavioral Rehabilitation at St. Mary’s Hospital and San Francisco General Hospital under Prof. Ronald Ruff at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).

Our staff has met all requirements for employment as specified in the personnel policy manual of the agency. Dr. Harmesh Kumar and all the staff have been fingerprinted using the live-scan method and his records are with the Department of Social Services. We are consolidating and now run only two licensed facilities in the Cities of Concord and Alameda, CA. Both of these facilities are private pay and do not accept Medicare, MediCal, or any other private insurance.

The staff consists of post-doctoral, pre-doctoral, master’s level professionals, and undergraduate level. Staff obtains support for their quality work through several means. They have weekly individual supervisory meetings with Dr. Kumar, a licensed psychologist. Also, they meet for group supervision to maintain their clinical competency and other team working skills. A consultation services seminar is held weekly in which staff assists one another in fine-tuning their consultation skills by discussing aspects of specific cases under the clinical supervision of Dr. Harmesh Kumar, a licensed psychologist. Lastly, we have various private consulting psychiatrists with whom we collaborate to assist with urgent psychiatric medication monitoring matters.