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.