Community Support Services helps individuals transition from inpatient care to a community setting. It also helps people to remain independent in their own homes through skill-building. We can help with the following:

• Representative payeeship
• Learning and performing activities of daily living (e.g. hygiene, grocery shopping, laundry)
• Assistance trying to locate housing and/or shelter
• Identification of personal recovery/resiliency plan (WRAP)
• Support and advocacy
• Assistance linking to financial resources in the community (e.g. for medication payment)
• Assistance linking to primary care physician
• Assistance with public entitlements (e.g. SSA, Medicaid)
• Medication education and monitoring
• Skill-building in a natural setting (70% of services are done in a client's home/community)
• Crisis intervention and assistance getting into hospital/temporary shelter
• Education on psychiatric diagnosis and treatment options
• Discussion of stigma
• Family interventions/support/education
• Community-based therapy