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 Community Support services are services and supports necessary to assist the youth ages 3 to 17 years of age or younger (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.

 Included among this latter group are those at risk for atypical development, substance abuse, or serious emotional disturbance (SED) that could result in an ability to live successfully in the community without services and guidance.

 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 or 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 provision of services.

 The Community Support Professional provides coordination of movement across levels of care, directly to the person and their family and coordinates discharge planning and community re-entry following hospitalization, residential services and other levels of care.

 The service provides "first responder" crisis response on a 24/7/365 basis to consumers experiencing a crisis.

Please contact the Admissions Office for further information about Community Support options.