SERVICES

Skills training and development is training provided to an eligible client, the LAR, or primary caregiver on behalf of an eligible client. Skills training and development focus on the improvement of communication skills, appropriate interpersonal behaviors and other skills necessary for independent living or, when age appropriate, functioning effectively with family, peers, and teachers. Skills training and development may include:

• Skills related to personal hygiene.
• Pro-social skills.
• Assertiveness skills.
• Anger management skills.
• Stress reduction techniques.
• Communication skills.
• Transportation utilization.
• Money management.

Crisis intervention services are intensive community-based one-to-one services provided to clients who require services to control acute symptoms that place the client at immediate risk of hospitalization, incarceration, or placement in a more restrictive treatment setting. This service includes assessment, behavioral skills training, problem-solving, and reality orientation to help clients identify and manage their symptoms of mental illness, and cope with stressors.

Psychosocial Rehabilitative Services are social, behavioral, and cognitive interventions provided by members of a client’s therapeutic team that build on strengths and focus on restoring the client’s ability to develop and maintain social relationships, occupational or educational achievement, and other independent living skills that are affected by or the result of a serious mental illness in clients who are 17 years of age and older.

Psychosocial rehabilitative services include

• Independent living services
• Coordination services
• Employment
• Housing
• Medication-related services