The Community Support Program is a short term voluntary program which is managed by MassHealth to provide intensive case management services to individuals who are considered to be "at risk" within the community. This program offers a single point of contact for coordination and follow up on a consumers' individual care. The Community Support Providers (CSP)are mobile, flexible and support consumers in the community.
The goals of the Community Support Program are to provide individuals with the opportunity to:
- Enhance the quality of their lives
- Focus on their strengths
- Introduce new daily living and coping tools
- Achieve their individual life potential
The objectives of the Community Support Program are to improve the individual's overall quality of life in the community by:
- Reducing recidivism rates
- Reducing psychotic episodes
- Strengthening treatment participation
- Ensuring that substance abuse issues are addresed in treatment
- Addressing health complications
- Decreasing suicidality/homicidality
- Improve prenatal care for substance abusing women
The Community Support Program has an open-referral program. Initial intake and referral forms and appropriate release of information forms should be filled out completly before calling referral lines. These forms and the referral phone numbers may be obtained through the CSP Coordinator or through the insurance provider.
The Community Support Network Service Area is:
Agawam
Blandford
Chester
Feeding Hills
Granville
Huntington
Montgomery
Russell
Southwick
Tolland
Westfield Springfield
Westfield
Woronoco
For Community Support Services contact:
Community Support Team
413-572-4109
