Clinical Services

Community Support

The Community Support Program at Community Connections operates on a modified case management model that includes a consumer-focused empowerment stance. The consumer and his/her needs are the center of the planning process. The case manager serves as a consultant and a guide to support the consumer in the achievement of individual goals. The relationship of trust and collaboration between the case manager and consumer becomes the vehicle for assisting the consumer in accomplishing goals. Additionally, the consumer and clinician work together to create and enhance the natural support network with the ultimate goal of having most of the consumer's needs met by members of an ever-expanding community network. Consumers choose to enroll in the Community Connections Community Support Program and have a say about whom they work with on any one of five clinical teams.

Services are available 24 hours per day, seven days per week and often the clinical team provides help in the individual's natural environment. A core goal of the CSP is to provide services that enable the consumer to gain the best possible level of functioning as defined by the individual.