Community Support Team (CST) (MH/SA)
Community Support Team (CST) services consist of community-based mental health and substance abuse rehabilitation services and necessary supports provided through a team approach to assist adults* in achieving rehabilitative and recovery goals. It is intended for individuals with mental illness, substance abuse disorders, or both who have complex and extensive treatment needs.
This is an intensive community-based rehabilitation team service that provides direct treatment and restorative interventions as well as case management. CST is designed to:
- reduce presenting psychiatric or substance abuse symptoms and promote symptom stability,
- restore the recipient’s community living and interpersonal skills,
- provide first responder intervention to deescalate the current crisis, and
- ensure linkage to community services and resources.
The ABS, Inc. CST team service includes a variety of interventions that are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and 365 days a year and is delivered by the CST staff, who maintain contact and intervene as one organizational unit. CST services are provided through a team approach.
The team approach involves structured, face-to-face, scheduled therapeutic interventions to provide support and guidance in all areas of functioning in life domains, namely emotional, social, safety, housing, medical and health, educational, vocational, and legal.