Community Supports

Community Support Team
Community Support Team is an intensive community rehabilitation and outreach service offered to consumers who need assistance in gaining access to necessary services and support during crisis situations.
Team members work with all persons receiving the service and go to the person in the community wherever they are located. Interventions focus on community coping and individual living skills, development of symptom monitoring, medication monitoring, and self medication abilities. The team also works with families and other caregivers in the community to assist them in their support of the consumer. The team includes a peer specialist who is an integral part of the team. Consumers are usually referred to the team when they are being discharged from the hospital or from Crisis Stabilization in need of more intensive follow up for a transition back into the community.

Community Support Individual
Community Support Individual is a service offered through all mental health outpatient sites. This service is a part of the new rehabilitation continuum of services. It is comprised of rehabilitative services, environmental support, and targeted case management (which is considered essential to assist the consumer in gaining access to necessary services). These services are intended to restore an individual to the best possible functional level and for maximum reduction of symptoms of a psychiatric illness. Maintenance level consumers may also utilize the service when needing case management types of assistance or maintenance on medication.