CASE MANAGEMENT: For Children & Adults
Community Intervention Associates offers services for individuals who have both a long-term mental illness and difficulty adjusting to community living. Case Management services include development of individualized service plans (ISP), making referrals to appropriate service providers and assuring our consumer receive the services he or she needs. Our goal in Case Management is to assist an individual with mental illness to remain in the community, rather than experience long-term hospitalizations. Case Management services provide individualized support focused on improving client self-sufficiency. Dedicated Case Managers (DCMs) help to complete a functional assessment and assist in planning, linkage, advocacy, coordination and monitoring of client activities. Supportive case management services assist clients in improving and maintaining functioning in their home, school and community environments. Community Intervention Associates recognizes the importance of each individual developing and utilizing necessary living skills while increasing their independence. Community Intervention Associates Case Management Services utilize the wraparound process in order to build a team dedicated to flexible and unconditional care. A Child and Family Team (CFT) is developed for each child/adolescent and family served. The youth and family identifies those individuals they desire to participate on the team. The Child and Family Team generally consists of individuals who know the family best and are willing to work to help the child and family have a better life.
CORE (Case management, Outreach, Referral, and Education)
The CORE Program is to ensure that clients can identify the necessary resources that correspond with their, mental, physical, or behavioral health concerns without having to leave their homes. This program will make an effort to promote an overall healthy daily lifestyle and demonstrate an accepting attitude to all clients necessary to engage or re-engage clients into appropriate services to enhance overall functioning. The provision of outreachand case management services to improve retention in care of at-risk youth, young adults and other enrolled consumers. Families and children (ages 0-19 years) in transition, such as those who are living in homeless shelters, temporary or doubled-up housing situations, or in foster care situations. The caregivers may be relative or non-relative, young or old. The CORE Program( offers a unique approach to behavioral health services. As part of the child and adult case management team, the CORE Program is based on a more personal approach to addressing the Case management, Outreach, Referral, and Education needs of enrolled consumers through home visits and telephonic contacts for homebound clients or clients who are less responsive or noncompliant with maintaining appointments or direct face-to-face contacts with case managers and other direct clinical staff. |