WELLNESS
Community Support Adult 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 mental health/substance abuse recovery skills necessary to successfully address his/her educational, vocational, and housing needs. The service activities consist of a variety of interventions: identification and intervention to address barriers that impede the development of skills necessary for independent functioning in the community; family psychoeducation; development and revision of the recipient’s Person Centered Plan; and one-on-one interventions with the community to develop interpersonal and community coping skills, including adaptation to home, school, and work environments; therapeutic mentoring; symptom monitoring; monitoring medications; and self management of symptoms.
ADVOCACY
Community Support workers 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. They consult with identified providers, include their input into the service planning process, inform stakeholders, and monitor the status of the recipient in relationship to the person-centered goals. Staff of Community Innovations, Inc. assumes the role of advocate for all of its consumers receiving Community Support Adult services.
Recovery
These interventions are strength-based and focused on promoting recovery, symptom reduction, increased coping skills, and achievement of the highest level of functioning in the community. The focus of the interventions include: minimizing the negative effects of psychiatric symptoms or substance dependence that interfere with the recipient’s daily living, financial management and personal development; developing strategies and supportive interventions for avoiding out-of-home placements for adults; supporting ongoing treatment; assisting recipients to increase social support skills that ameliorate life stresses resulting from the recipient’s disability and coordinating rehabilitation services in accordance with the Person Centered Plan.
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