Community Service Programs
Comprehensive Community Services (CCS) General Information
Comprehensive Community Services (CCS) is a voluntary, community-based program funded by the State of Wisconsin and operated by the Ashland County Health & Human Services Department.
The CCS program offers a wide array of services and supportive activities that assist CCS participants living with mental health and/or substance use to achieve their highest possible level of independent functioning, stability, independence and recovery.
The CCS program can provide a number of services needed at no cost to the client. These are part of the participant's approved Recovery Plan and fully covered. Examples of supports that may be added to a CCS Participant's recovery plan are:
- Individual therapy
- Substance use counseling
- Equine assisted coping methods
Side by Side Assistance Provided in the Community or Home:
- Mentoring by peers with lived mental health or substance use experience (Peer Support)
- Guidance, education and coping skills for those supporting the participant
- Help with understanding, managing and tracking medications
- Finding housing, employment, budgeting, daily living skills like grocery shopping, completing paperwork, home and appointment organization, making community connections and learning healthy coping skills such as yoga, cross fit, crafts, nature healing and more!
Community Support Program (CSP) Services
The Community Support Program (CSP) is for adults living with a serious and persistent mental illness. CSP provides coordinated professional care and treatment in the community that includes a broad range of services to meet an individual's unique personal needs, reduce symptoms and promote recovery. CSP is designed to be capable of providing services that can be tailored to the individual's needs at any given time, ranging from minimal to intensive, or a level that might otherwise require care in a hospital setting.
Eligibility for services is based on a qualifying mental health diagnosis that imposes a disability in daily living and a risk of a continuing pattern of hospital or institutional care.
The CSP Service Array includes the following areas:
- Comprehensive CSP Assessment
- Psychiatric Assessment and monitoring
- Medication prescription, administration and monitoring
Community Recovery Services (CRS)
In CRS, the participant and staff work together to improve the individual's quality of life in the community through an outcomes-based planning and support process focused on the individual's unique recovery needs.
CRS can include:
- Community Living Supportive Services: These services include activities intended to assure successful community living, such as meal planning/preparation, household cleaning, personal hygiene, medication reminders, medication side effect monitoring, parenting skills and community resource access and utilization, emotional regulation skills, crisis coping skills, shopping, transportation, recovery management skills and education, financial management, social and recreation activities and developing and enhancing interpersonal skills.
- Peer Support Services: These services include assistance from an individual who has lived the experience of mental illness and is trained to support others in their recovery journey.
- Supported Employment Services: These services include activities to assist individuals to obtain and maintain competitive employment.