Mental Health Community Support Services | Bridgeview Community Mental Health Center

Description

Community support services are provided to individuals with a mental illness, developmental, cognitive or intellectual disability, enabling them to develop supports and learn skills that will allow them to live, learn, socialize, and work in the community.

Services are individualized, need and abilities-focused, and organized according to the following components: outreach to appropriate support or treatment services; assistance and referral in meeting basic human needs; assistance in housing and living arrangements; crisis intervention and assistance; social and vocational assistance; the provision of or arrangement for personal, environmental, family, and community supports; facilitation of the individual's identification and development of natural support systems; support, assistance, and education to the individual's family and to the community; protection and advocacy; service coordination; and protective payee services.

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