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Community Support Team (CST) is recovery and resiliency oriented, intensive, community based rehabilitation and outreach service for adults. It is team-based and consists of mental health rehabilitation interventions and supports necessary to assist the recipient in achieving and maintaining rehabilitative, resiliency and recovery goals.
Community Support Team is designed to meet the educational, vocational, residential, mental health, co-occurring disorders (MH/SA, MH/DD, MH/Medical), financial, social, and other treatment support needs of the recipient. Interventions are provided primarily in natural settings, and are delivered face to face, by telephone, or by video conference with individual recipients and their family/significant others as appropriate, to the primary well-being and benefit of the recipient. Community Support Team assists in the development of optimal developmentally appropriate community living skills, and in setting and attaining recipient (and family in the case of children) defined recovery/resiliency goals.
Community Support Team may serve as a step down for individuals transitioning from more intensive or restrictive levels of care, or for those with psychiatric hospitalizations/repeated detoxification incidence in the past 18 months who are at risk of out of home placement. It is provided to recipients to decrease hospitalizations and crisis episodes and increase community tenure/independent functioning; increase time working, in school or with social contacts; and personal satisfaction and autonomy. Community support team may also serve as a step up from less intensive levels of care when those interventions have not succeeded in meeting the individual’s clinical and rehabilitative needs.
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This role is responsible for providing high quality services that promote optimal social, emotional, and behavioral functioning. They provide intensive case management and community support individual/group services to adults in DeKalb County both in office and natural settings (i.e. home/community). This role provides services to adults suffering from Severe and Persistent Mental Illness (SPMI), which includes, but not limited to, Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective Disorder, Bipolar Disorder with Psychosis, Major Depressive Disorder with Psychosis, and PTSD.
