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Community Support
Program
The Community Support Program meets the needs of adults and
families who experience severe and persistent mental illness,
trauma, emotional and behavioral problems. Consumers are provided
with support and assistance in the community. We offer non-traditional
outreach, as well as unique, specialized group services. In
addition, providers offer quality of life services to mental
health consumers who reside in area boarding homes. Kennebec
Behavioral Health offers services in support of the consumer’s
recovery, thereby improving both quality of life and sense
of purpose.
To qualify for Community Support Services, consumers have to
have been diagnosed with a severe and persistent mental illness
or a personality disorder with decreased levels of functioning.
Along with a qualifying diagnosis, consumers will have a history
of psychiatric hospitalizations, or be an AMHI class member.
Consumers are discharged from CSP if they no longer use or
need the service, or cannot be safely served.
Consumers are linked to needed services such as vocational
rehabilitation, peer resources, crisis services and legal services.
Program staff advocate as necessary. Services are primarily
delivered in the community or in alternative environment s
which are safe.
Community Support Workers work with consumers in getting basic
needs met such as housing, food and entitlements. Consumers
participate with their Community Support Workers in assessments,
and evaluations, insetting goals, as well as the development
of a comprehensive individualized support plan describing the
services or interventions they need. |
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