MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT SERVICES
DePaul Community Resources offers services to individuals with mental, behavioral, or emotional illnesses. Our qualified mental health professionals help people develop social skills and improve independent living skills.
What is Mental Health Support?
Our Mental Health Support Services are distinctive services that offer training and support to adolescents and adults to better enable individuals with significant functional limitations to achieve and maintain community stability and independence in the most appropriate, least restrictive environment. Mental Health Support Services are paid for by Medicaid and are designed to meet each individual’s needs and to help maintain stability in the community.
Who is eligible?
Individuals must have a clinical need for the service arising from a condition due to mental, behavioral, or emotional illness, which results in significant functional impairments in major life activities. Individuals may have a dual diagnosis of mental illness and intellectual disabilities as well as that of substance abuse.
What services are provided?
Mental Health Support is provided to help people develop appropriate social skills and behaviors as well as teach improved independent living skills such as maintaining personal hygiene, preparing food, maintaining adequate nutrition, managing finances, accessing community resources, and monitoring mental and emotional stability. Services are also designed to assist individuals to improve their ability to establish or maintain healthy interpersonal relationships.
Features of Mental Health Support Services include:
- Individualized Service Planning to meet the client “where they are”
- Small caseloads
- A variety of groups (i.e., Art Group, Coping Skills Group, Walking Group, etc.)
Who Provides the Service?
Mental Health Support Services are, at a minimum, provided by a Qualified Mental Health Professional.