Program Services

Community Support services are services and supports necessary to assist the youth ages 4 to 17 years of age (20 years old or younger for children enrolled in Medicaid) and their caregivers in achieving, rehabilitative, and recovery goals. Community Support services are psychoeducational and supportive in nature and intended to meet the mental health or substance abuse needs of children and adolescents with significant functional deficits or who, because of negative environmental, medical or biological factors, are at risk of developing or increasing the magnitude of such functional deficits.

The service activities of Community Support consist of a variety of interventions: education and training of caregivers and others who have a legitimate role in addressing the needs identified in the Person Centered Plan; preventive, and therapeutic interventions designed for direct individual activities assist with skill enhancement or acquisition, and support ongoing treatment and functional gains; development of the consumer’s Person center Plan, and one-on-one interventions with the consumer to develop interpersonal and community relational skills, including adaptation to home, school, work and other natural environments; therapeutic mentoring; and symptom monitoring and self-management of symptoms. Community Support includes case management to arrange, link or integrate multiple services as well as assessment and reassessment of the recipient’s need for services. Community Support workers also inform the recipient about benefits, community resources, and services; assist the recipient in accessing benefits and services; arrange for the recipient to receive benefits and services; and monitor the accessing benefits and services; arrange for the recipient to receive benefits and services; and monitor the accessing benefits and services; arrange for the recipient to receive benefits and services; and monitor the provision of services.

Community Support consists of mental health and substance abuse rehabilitation services and supports necessary to assist the person in achieving and maintaining rehabilitative, sobriety, and recovery goals. The service is designed to meet the mental health/substance abuse treatment, financial, social, and other treatment support needs of the recipient. The service is also designed to assist the recipient in acquiring treatment mental health/substance abuse recovery skills necessary to successfully address his/her educational, vocational, and housing needs. Community Support includes case management to arrange, link or integrate multiple services as well as assessment and reassessment of the recipient’s need for services. Community Support workers also inform the recipient about benefits, community resources, and services; assist the recipient in accessing benefits and services; arrange for the recipient to receive benefits and services; and monitor the provision of services.

Intenstive in Home Services addresses the identified needs of children and adolescents who are transitioning from out of home placements or are at risk of out-of-home placement and need intensive interventions to remain stable in the community. The service is delivered primarily to youths in their family’s home with a family focus to diffuse current crisis, evaluate its nature and intervene to reduce the likelihood of a recurrence, ensure linkage to needed community services and resources, provide self help and living skills training for youth, provide parenting skills training to help the family build skills coming with youth’s disorder, monitor and manage the presenting psychiatric and addiction symptoms and work with caregivers in the implementation of home based behavioral supports

SACOT program means a periodic service that is a time limited, multi-faceted approach treatment service for adults who require structure and support to achieve and sustain recovery. SACOT program is a service emphasizing reduction in use and abuse of substances and/or continued abstinence, the negative consequences of substance abuse, development of social support network and necessary lifestyle changes, educational skills, vocational skills leading to work activity by reducing substance abuse as a barrier to employment social and interpersonal skills, improved family functioning, the understanding of addictive disease, and the continued commitment to a recovery and maintenance program. For more information, visit www.drugfree.org.
These services are provided during day and evening hours to enable individuals to maintain residence in their community, continue to work or go to school, and be a part of their family life. The following types of services are included in the SACOT Program:

• Individual counseling and support
  
• Group Counseling and support
  
• Family Counseling training or support
  
• Community Support Services (CSS)
  
• Biochemical assays to identify recent drug use (e.g. urine drug screens)
  
• Strategies for relapse prevention to include community ans social support systems in treatment
  
• Life Skills
  
• Crisis contingency planning
  
• Disease management

CST services consist of mental health and substance abuse rehabilitation services and supports necessary to assist adults (age 18 and older) in achieving rehabilitative and recovery goals. This is an intensive community rehabilitation service that provides treatment and restorative interventions to: assist individuals to gain access to necessary services; reduce psychiatric and addiction symptoms and develop optimal community living skills.

A licensed social worker, counselor or psychologist who works with the consumer and family to address the clinically significant behavioral or psychological symptoms or patterns that have been identified as treatment needs of the consumer

DiagnosticAssessment is an intensive clinical and ftinctional face-to-face evaluation of a recipient’s mental health, developmental disability, or substance abuse condition that results in the issuance of a Diagnostic/Assessment report with a recommendation regarding whether the recipient meets target population criteria, and includes an order for Enhanced Benefit services that provide the basis for the development of an initial Person Centered Plan. For substance abuse-focused Diagnostic/Assessment, the designated Diagnostic Tool specified by DMH (e.g., SUDDS IV, ADI, SASSI) for specific substance abuse target populations (i.e., Work First, DWI, etc.) must be used. In addition, any elements included in this service definition that are not covered by the tool must be completed.

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