WALKING LIFE WITH YOU
Community Psychiatric Support (CPST)
CPST is a case management program for children and adults. CPST provides services in our office, your home, community and school. The goal of CPST is to assist clients in becoming as independent as possible. CPST encourages personal responsibility and development of skills to help the client take control of his or her life, rather than depending upon systems and agencies. We believe in a workable partnership between the client, our behavioral health specialists and the community. We are strength-based and believe that the development of a positive self-image and a stable living situation is critical to long-term symptom management and personal happiness.
CPST may include the following components
CPST can be utilized by counselors of non REACH agencies, as a supportive service. We will walk life with your clients, helping them identify triggers, implement taught skills and organize thoughts.
CPST for Adults (21+) can also include:
* provide behavioral and emotional support for managing mental health symptoms, as well as parenting support for those with children experiencing emotional difficulties
* provide life skills support in connection to children services cases
* can help with accessing community resources and benefits like Social Security, food banks, housing, transportation services and government agencies
* provide assistance in finding medical, social, educational, spiritual, and other services needed.
* link clients with courts, government meetings and specialist appointments.
CPST for Children (5-20):
We offer services for children with difficult-to-treat emotional, behavioral and/or developmental disorders. this will be accomplished through walking life with the child, enabling them to manage their mental health symptoms CPST can assist with assessing the child and family’s needs and find resources required to address those needs. We work closely with schools and families to make sure the child has all the supports in place to help him or her become successful. We attend school meetings with parents and their child and assist with IEP development, advocacy, and support, based upon the child’s educational, emotional, developmental and/or social needs. CPST monitors the child’s progress at home, school and in the community. We help parents develop specific behavior plans to reduce problem behaviors and we work closely with specialists like neurologists, occupational and physical therapists, medical staff, teachers and school administrators to make sure the child has the best and most complete treatment team possible.
CPST may include the following components
- Assist the individual to identify strategies or treatment options associated with the individual’s mental illness and/or substance use disorder, with the goal of minimizing the negative effects of symptoms, emotional disturbances, or associated environmental stressors which interfere with the individual’s daily living, financial management, housing, academic and/or employment progress, personal recovery or resilience, family and/or interpersonal relationships, and community integration;
- Provide individualized support, solution-focused interventions, emotional and behavioral management support, and behavioral awareness, to develop and implement social, interpersonal, self-care, daily living, and independent living skills to restore stability, support functional gains, and adapt to living in the community;
- Facilitate participation in and utilization of strengths based planning and treatments which include identifying strengths and needs, resources, natural supports, and developing goals and objectives.
- Assist the individual with effectively responding to or avoiding triggers, identifying a crisis situations, and developing a crisis management plan.
CPST can be utilized by counselors of non REACH agencies, as a supportive service. We will walk life with your clients, helping them identify triggers, implement taught skills and organize thoughts.
CPST for Adults (21+) can also include:
* provide behavioral and emotional support for managing mental health symptoms, as well as parenting support for those with children experiencing emotional difficulties
* provide life skills support in connection to children services cases
* can help with accessing community resources and benefits like Social Security, food banks, housing, transportation services and government agencies
* provide assistance in finding medical, social, educational, spiritual, and other services needed.
* link clients with courts, government meetings and specialist appointments.
CPST for Children (5-20):
We offer services for children with difficult-to-treat emotional, behavioral and/or developmental disorders. this will be accomplished through walking life with the child, enabling them to manage their mental health symptoms CPST can assist with assessing the child and family’s needs and find resources required to address those needs. We work closely with schools and families to make sure the child has all the supports in place to help him or her become successful. We attend school meetings with parents and their child and assist with IEP development, advocacy, and support, based upon the child’s educational, emotional, developmental and/or social needs. CPST monitors the child’s progress at home, school and in the community. We help parents develop specific behavior plans to reduce problem behaviors and we work closely with specialists like neurologists, occupational and physical therapists, medical staff, teachers and school administrators to make sure the child has the best and most complete treatment team possible.
