Community Support
Services for Website
Program
Community Support Services
(CSS) provides community-based services for persons whose
needs have not been met through traditional office-based
treatment.
The CSS team approach
assumes responsibility for directly providing acute,
active, and ongoing community-based psychiatric treatment,
assertive outreach, rehabilitation, and support.
Services are comprehensive
and highly individualized, and are modified as needed
through an ongoing assessment and treatment planning
process. Services vary in intensity based on the persons
served.
Persons Served
The CSS program
provides psychosocial and intensive case management
services directed primarily to adults (18 years and older)
with severe and persistent mental illness who have a high
use history of State Operated Psychiatric Facilities (SOF).
They characteristically have frequent and repeated
admissions with their stay at the SOF usually being for a
prolonged period of time.
CSS clients often have
co-occurring issues such as substance abuse, homelessness,
legal issues, and/or lack of community and family support.
Treatment Team
A multidisciplinary treatment team consisting of a
case-manager, a nurse, a psychiatrist, a substance abuse
consultant, and a program coordinator provides CSS
services.
Multiple members of the
team are familiar with each person served to assure the
timely and continuous provision of services.
The majority of services
are provided directly by CSS team members with minimal
referral to outside providers for the purpose of
continuity of care. The team members are available on a 24
hours per day, 7 days per week, basis.
Services
CSS clients require a well coordinated and integrated
package of services provided over an extended period of
time for them to live successfully in the community. These
services include, but are not limited to, the following:
* Assessment and Service
Planning
* Counseling
* Case Management Services
* Rehabilitation Services
* Substance Abuse Services
* Psychiatric Services
* Budgeting/Representative Payee Services
* Support and Advocacy Services
* Crisis Intervention Services
Outcomes
Desired outcomes specific to CSS may include positive
change in the following areas:
* Community Tenure
* Independent Living
* Quality of Life
* Consumer Satisfaction
* Functioning Level (work and social domains)
* Community Integration
* Psychological Condition
* Access to Health Care
* Activities of Daily Living
* Reduction in Hospitalization
For more information about
CSS, please contact us at (618)734-2665 or
email us
