Integrated Community Support Services
Our staff members will work to identify the client’s indicators for a potential mental health crisis and develop successful strategies of de-escalation.
Adults with mental health/behavioral issues living in their homes or foster care settings will benefit from Integrated Community Support Services (ICS) program. The ICS program is centered around the client’s home and community. We tailor our services to fit the family culture, to meet the consumer’s needs and to be flexible in schedule and design.We work collaboratively with team members to ensure that meaningful support is provided. All staff members are trained to recognize the precursors to a crisis and will work with the client to implement these strategies and avoid more intensive mental health interventions in a manner that is as transparent as possible.
Client Support
Integrated Community Supports (ICS): Services that provide support and training in community living service categories to adults age 18 and older who reside in a living unit of a provider-controlled, ICS setting (e.g., apartment in a multi-family housing building). ICS can be delivered up to 24 hours per day in the person’s living unit or in the community. Integrated community supports cover training and support to meet the person’s individualized assessed needs and goals in at least one of the community living service categories:
Community participation
Health, safety and wellness
Household Management
Adaptive skills
Community Participation
This category may include:
Community mobility and pedestrian safety (e.g., safely getting in and around the community)
Community resource use and access
Community safety and awareness
Informal support system and network development
Interpersonal communications skills
Leisure, recreation and socialization planning
Skill-building to meet transportation needs.
Health, safety and wellness
This category may include:
Collaboration with the person to arrange health care (e.g., physical, mental, chemical), meaningful activities, social services, meetings and appointments
Cueing, guidance, supervision, training or instructional support to complete self-care activities
Health services support
Help for the person to activate and build resiliency factors
Support for the person to design and meet individualized strategies to reach their health, safety and wellness goals.
Household management
This category may include:
Cueing, guidance, supervision, training or instructional support to complete routine household care and maintenance
Household safety knowledge and skills
Tenancy support and advocacy
Training, assistance, support and/or guidance with:
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- Budgeting and assistance to manage money
- Cooking, meal-planning and nutrition
- Healthy lifestyle skills and practices
- Household chores, including minor household maintenance activities
- Personal-needs purchasing.
Adaptive skills
This category may include:
Crisis prevention skills
Implementation of positive support strategies
Problem-solving
Sensory/motor development involved in acquiring functional skills
Support and training to increase positive behavior, resulting in
reduction or elimination of challenging behavior.
Working Together
Our staff meets with families, interdisciplinary team members and the client regularly to monitor expectations. The schedule design is flexible to meet the client’s needs. Be sure to contact us with any questions you might have about Good Hands Home Healthcare and the extraordinary collaborative environment we offer.