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RECOVERY SUPPORT

The Mental Health Waiver Program, operated by the Department of Mental Health and Addictions Services. Medicaid individuals with serious mental illness who either live in a nursing home, are at risk of going into, or are already residing in a nursing home care facility. This program is designed to promote independence by assisting individuals with maintaining their own homes with support services.  

Key components of the Individual Plan (IP):

· 24-hour supports

· Person-centered recovery planning provided by Advance Behavioral Health(ABH) /Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS)

Community Support Program (CSP): Community Support Program (CSP) consist of mental health and substance abuse rehabilitation services and supports necessary to assist the individual in achieving and maintaining the highest degree of independent functioning. The service utilizes a team approach to provide intensive, rehabilitative community support, crisis intervention, group and individual psycho-education, and skill building for activities of daily living.

CSP includes a comprehensive array of rehabilitation services most of which are provided in non-office settings by a mobile team. Services are focused on skill building with a goal of maximizing independence. Community-based treatment enables the team to become intimately familiar with the participant’s surroundings, strengths and challenges, and to assist the participant in learning skills applicable to his/her living environment. The team services and interventions are highly individualized and tailored to the needs and preferences of the individual.

Recovery Assistant (RA): Recovery Assistant - A flexible range of supportive assistance provided face-to-face in accordance with a Waiver Recovery Plan that enables a participant to maintain a home/apartment, encourages the use of existing natural supports, and fosters involvement in social and community activities. 

Service activities include: performing homemaking, companion, personal care, and in-home respite services designed to help the individual maintain his or her own home. More specific:

· household tasks, providing instructive assistance, or cuing to prompt the participant to carry out tasks (e.g., meal preparation; routine household chores, cleaning, laundry, shopping, and bill-paying; and participation in social and recreational activities), 

· and; providing supportive companionship. 

The Recovery Assistant may also provide instruction or cuing to prompt the participant to dress appropriately and perform basic hygiene functions; supportive assistance and supervision of the participant, and; short-term relief in the home for a participant who is unable to care for himself/herself when the primary caregiver is absent or in need of relief

Transitional Case Management (TCM): services provided during the weeks prior to and immediately following discharge from a nursing home to help locate and set up a suitable living arrangement; TCM is also provided if an individual is expected to have a long-term hospital stay to help facilitate transition back into the community.

Rental Assistance Program (RAP): certificates provided through Department of Social Services.