NORTH STAR COMMUNITY SERVICES - Quality Services for people with disabilities

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OUR SERVICES

Services Coordination /Case Management
Service Definition
Case management/ service coordination services provide goal-oriented and individualized supports focusing on improved self-sufficiency through assessment, planning, linkage to other community services, advocacy, coordination, and monitoring activities.  CM/ SC services are provided in the home and community of the persons served and are designed to support their twelve counties from offices in Waterloo, Waverly, New Hampton, Charles City, Marshalltown, Vinton, and Mason City.

Psychosocial rehabilitation services emphasize maximizing good mental health through treatment and support.  Services include medications monitoring and support, coordination with mental health professionals, and assistance in accessing community resources.

Program Goals:
  1. Persons served maximize their level of independence at home and in the community.
  2. Persons served live in healthy and safe environment.
  3. Persons served participate in activities they enjoy.
  4. Persons served optimize their mental health treatment, thus avoiding hospitalization.
Admission Criteria:
  1. Consumer chooses to participate in the program.
  2. Consumer has a mental health condition that presents barriers to independent living in the community.
  3. Consumer currently lives in or identifies living in own home or apartment in the community as a future goal.
Service Components:
  1. Person centered planning.
  2. Self-advocacy training.
  3. Establishing, finding, and using natural network of supports in the community.
  4. Training in independent living skills.

Money Management Skills

Safety Skills

Community Access

Guidance and Support

Crisis Intervention/ Management