The Community Support Program provides services to people who have a severe and persistent mental illness of an acute nature. Consequently, they have faced profound challenges in the major areas of community living. These areas of difficulty include: recurrent employment; inability to consistently or independently manage household tasks such as making meals, doing laundry, shopping, budgeting, and child care tasks; impaired socially, isolated and alone; and difficulty with self-care, such as an inability to complete grooming tasks, or tend to medical, transportation, and housing needs. Consumers also struggle with mental health diagnoses such as: paranoid schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, schizophrenia, bi-polar, major depression and various personality disorders.
The Community Support Program's focus is to help consumers remain in the community while enhancing the quality of their lives. The program provides: case management, consumer involved treatment planning, active treatment, symptom management, supportive group counseling, psychosocial rehabilitation, a variety of outreach/recreational groups, psychiatric and nursing services, benefits counseling and crisis intervention.
At Jefferson County Human Services, no one will be denied access to services due to an inability to pay, and a discounted/sliding fee schedule is available.