Community Support Services (CSS)
   

The Community Support Services (CSS) Division provides a comprehensive range of services for adults with severe and persistent mental illness. CSS utilizes a community support systems/case management model.

CSS offers:

Case Management
Every individual served through the CSS program has access to case management services. These services facilitate recovery and the treatment process through direct interactions that assist consumers in understanding their symptoms and teaching skills necessary to live successfully in the community. These services include assistance with housing, education, employment and accessing community resources.

Vocational/Educational Services
The Vocational Team provides a wide range of employment, educational and career development services including pre-vocational training, job development, support employment, supported education and onsite job coaching to promote and enhance recovery.

Recovery Support Team (RST)
Services include both individual and group psychosocial  rehabilitation that focuses on personal recovery by providing psychosocial activities that emphasize personal responsibility for physical, mental and spiritual health.

Young Adult Transition Services
Specialized services designed for young adults who have a serious mental illness or a severe emotional disturbance to successfully transition to adult life.

Peer Support
Recovery Support Specialist are individuals who have advanced in their own recovery sufficiently to be of genuine assistance to other mental health consumers. The goal of peer support is to aid individuals in their recovery process and to assist them in achieving the goal of living a meaningful and fulfilling live in the community.

Medical Services
A staff of psychiatrists and nurses are responsible for providing medication management services to individuals requiring psychotropic medication as well as monitoring other health care needs.

After-Hours Crisis Services
This services is the primary point of contact for all mental health emergencies occurring during the non-business hours including weekends and holidays. Qualified Mental Health Professionals (QMHP) working onsite provide telephone response to emergencies and provide consultation and guidance to hospital emergency departments, law enforcement officers and various other community agencies in addressing mental health emergencies.

Mobile Crisis Response Team (MCRT)
The Mobile Crisis Response Team (MCRT) provides mobile mental health crisis services 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Specially trained to resolve emergency situations, the team responds to crisis calls in the community, providing brief and intensive services, reducing the need for hospitalization.

Crisis Recovery Center (CRC )
Is a ten bed licensed, crisis residential facility that is staffed full-time with crisis staff, who provide support and supervision to individuals at risk of hospitalization.

 

 
   
 
 

 

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