Mental Health Skill-Building
About The Service
Mental Health Skill-Building
This program offers goal-directed training to enable individuals to achieve and maintain community stability and independence in the most appropriate, least restrictive environment.
Services are typically provided in one-hour increments in the individual’s home or in the community and are tailored to his/her needs. Services are developed in coordination with the individual and services team using a person-centered approach. Individual recovery and support goals are developed to empower the individual to achieve objectives based on preferences, strengths, and potential.
Eligibility Criteria
Clinical Necessity
Individuals qualifying for Mental Health Skill Building Services must demonstrate a clinical necessity for the service arising from a condition due to mental, behavioral, or emotional illness that results in significant functional impairments in major life activities. Services are provided to individuals who require individualized training to achieve or maintain stability and independence in the community.
Primary Axis I DSM Diagnosis
Individuals age 21 and over shall meet all of the following criteria in order to be eligible to receive mental health skill-building services:
1. The individual shall have one of the following as a primary Axis I DSM diagnosis: Schizophrenia or other psychotic disorder as set out in the DSM; Major Depressive Disorder – Recurrent; Bipolar I; or Bipolar II; Any other Axis I mental health disorder that a physician has documented specific to the identified individual within the past year to include all of the following: (i) that is a serious mental illness; (ii) that results in severe and recurrent disability; (iii) that produces functional limitations in the individual’s major life activities that are documented in the individual’s medical record, AND; (iv) that the individual requires individualized training in order to achieve or maintain independent living in the community.
2. The individual shall require individualized training in acquiring basic living skills such as symptom management; adherence to psychiatric and medication treatment plans; development and appropriate use of social skills and personal support system; personal hygiene; food preparation; or money management.
Prior History
The individual shall have a prior history of any of the following: psychiatric hospitalization; residential crisis stabilization, ICT or Program of Assertive Community Treatment (PACT) services; placement in a psychiatric residential treatment facility (RTC Level C); or TDO
Prior Prescription
The individual shall have had a prescription for anti-psychotic, mood stabilizing, or antidepressant medications within the 12 months prior to the assessment date.
Individuals ages 16-20 shall meet all of the following criteria in order to be eligible to receive mental health skill-building services:
Be in an independent living situation or actively transitioning into an independent living situation.
Have one of the following as a primary diagnosis: Schizophrenia or other psychotic disorder as set out in the DSM Major Depressive Disorder – Recurrent Bipolar I; or Bipolar II Any other Axis I mental health disorder that a physician has documented specific to the identified individual within the past year
Require individualized training in acquiring basic living skills such as symptom management; adherence to psychiatric and medication treatment plans; development and appropriate use of social skills and personal support system; personal hygiene; food preparation; or money management
Have a prior history of a psychiatric hospitalization
Have had a prescription for antipsychotic, mood stabilizing, or antidepressant medications within the 12 months prior to the assessment date
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