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MENTAL HEALTH CASEMANAGEMENT SERVICES Community
Treatment Team of Bucks County:
(CTT) The CTT of Bucks County provides comprehensive and intensive outpatient
mental health treatment, rehabilitation and support services to persons with
serious and persistent mental illness, for whom established community mental
health services alone have not been effective. CTT
services are for those individuals who have not achieved and maintained health
and stability in the community, and without these services would continue to
experience hospitalization, psychiatric emergencies, incarceration, substance
use/abuse, and/or homelessness. Services
are guided by the principal that individuals with serious mental illness can
live successfully in integrated community settings when adequate, individualized
supports and services are provided. Operations
include outreach services, on-site services as well as telephone available.
Staff works flexible hours so as to assure coverage during
“non-traditional” work hours. The
CTT treatment philosophy is truly “whatever it takes.” All
CTT applicants must first have an intake assessment (see Behavioral Health
Assessment Services). Any mental
health professional, community physician, family member or consumer can initiate
a referral. Discussion at point of
referral is encouraged, as applicants must meet specific eligibility criteria. Forensic
Services Program:
The Forensic Services program is a specialized treatment program designed
for individuals with severe and persistent mental illness who are involved in
the criminal justice system. These
individuals have demonstrated difficulty engaging in traditional treatment
programs, and/or have treatment needs that cannot be adequately met within
traditional treatment services. The
Forensic Services Program can offer individualized field counseling and therapy,
casemanagement services, psychiatric medications, and housing supports.
This model is also based upon close collaboration with criminal justice
personnel, and other agencies and County offices. The goal is to provide tailor-made services to help
individuals successfully re-enter and remain in the community without the need
for re-incarceration. Intensive
Casemanagement: (ICM)
This department is designed to meet the needs of adult clients with long term or
chronic mental illness and of children and adolescents who have a serious
emotional disturbance or are at risk of developing a serious emotional
disturbance and are “multi-system” involved. The
Intensive Casemanager provides assistance in accessing appropriate mental health
services and community resources, assists in establishing a support network so
as to provide a better quality of life for the client, and hopefully, prevent
hospitalization. Services are
available on a one-to-one basis and casemanagers have limited caseloads so as to
promote effective intervention and encourage positive relationships between
consumer and casemanager. Services
are available to registered clients 24 hours a day, via an on-call system during
evening and weekend hours. Consumer
contacts take place at least once every other week, and an Intensive Casemanager
is expected to spend 50% of his/her time with their consumers in a community
setting.
All ICM applicants must first have an intake assessment (see Behavioral
Health Assessment Services). Any
mental health professional, community physician, or family member can make a
referral. Referrals for children and adolescents must be approved by a
children’s services inter-agency team. Resource
Coordination:
Resource Coordination (RC) is designed to serve adults with serious and
persistent mental illness who do not require the intensity and frequency of
contacts provided through intensive casemanagement, but who continue to need
help in accessing, coordination and monitoring of resources and services.
RC services are provided to assist consumers in accessing resources and
services in the community that build upon strengths with the goal of achieving
safety, stability and healthy living. Consumer
contacts are less frequent than those in ICM and because RC services are
targeted for persons with less complex needs than those of ICM, there is no
requirement for 24-hour service availability.
Referral to RC is identical to that of ICM (see above).
PATH Program: The
PATH Program, which stands for Projects for Assistance in the Transition from
Homelessness, which operates from a federal grant program, provides outreach to
individuals with a serious and persistent mental illness who are homeless or who
are at-risk of being homeless. PATH
casemanagers help these individuals to obtain assistance with areas such as
money management, medical services, transportation, rehabilitation, income
support, food stamps, Social Security benefits, and education services. Administrative Casemanagement: Services are available to assist clients with social service needs. The Administrative Casemanager acts as a liaison between PMHC and external agencies, programs and hospitals to assure continuity of care and to coordinate service delivery.
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