Christian County Mental Health Association

Community integrated living arrangements (mh/mi cila): this program provides supervised residential supports and interventions for individuals needing assistance to live successfully in a community setting. The purpose of the cila program is to provide a customized array of supervised services to eligible individuals with developmental disabilities enabling them to live in the home of their choice in the community of their choice. These services address the preferences, strengths, abilities, neds and life span issues of the persons served, focusing on community inclusion and the promotion of independence in daily living and economic self-sufficiency. Individual choices dictate the services which are provided to each person in this program. Persons receiving cila services are recognized as individuals with basic human needs, aspirations, desires, and feelings and are citizens of a community with all rights, privileges, opportunities and responsibilities accorded other citizens.

Developmental training: this program is designed to comprehensively prepare adults with developmental disabilities for community integration at the level that is least restrictive and most meaningful for each individual. The developmental training program promotes acquisition of positive skills and behaviors in the following areas of major life activity: self care, language/communications, learning, mobility/motor development, self-direction, capacity for independent living and productivity.

Homebased services community based services to individuals with developmental disabilities and their families. Services include case mgt, budgeting, household safety consumer skills, wellness, advocacy, etc. Program designed to enable individuals to continue living in their own home in their own community.

Client/family support (dd):these community-based services are provided to individuals with developmental disabilities or dual diagnosis and their families for the purpose of maximizing their inclusion in the community. Services include case management, budgeting, household safety, consumer skills wellness training,advocacy, transportation, use of leisure time, medication review and compliance, access to health care, direct service provision and community integration. These services are designed to enable individuals to continue living in their own home.