Community Support
Community Support Services are offered through-out Region
IV
These services provide support to help the consumer
live successfully in the community.
They are designed to:
1. maximize the
consumers' quality of life,
2. improve coordination
between service providers
3. decrease hospitalization.
Wellness, rather than illness, is stressed.
Services are provided in the client's
own home, at the client's convenience, 24 hours a day.
The desired outcome of Community Support, Level I and II, program is for
persons disabled by severe and persistent mental illness and is designed to
- provide/develop the necessary services and supports which enable
consumers to live successfully in the community
- maximize the consumer’s community participation and quality of
life
- facilitate communication and coordination between multiple service
providers that serve the same consumer
- decrease the frequency and duration of hospitalization.
Community support provides consumer advocacy, ensures continuity of care,
supports consumers in time of crisis, provides/procures skill training, ensure
the acquisition of necessary resources and assists the consumer in meeting
the consumer’s needs within the resources available in the community.
The role(s) of the community support provider may vary base on consumer’s
needs. Community support is generally provided in the consumer’s place
of residence or related community locations suitable to consumer need.
A “successful” Community Support Consumer will no longer be institutionalized,
will exhibit the skills and be provided services necessary to live and participate
as a member of the community. The consumer will live in a residence
of his/her choice, capabilities, and be empowered (have the authority,
power and ability) to make informed choices to enhance self responsibility.
