Healthcare Commons Inc. offers a full spectrum on Case Management Services for Adults, Children, and Families. All Case Management Programs are community based services designed to assist clients and families in need of mental health services. Each program has a unique target population designed to serve those individuals most in need of services.

Youth Case  Management

Adult Intensive Case Management

Homeless Mentally  Ill Program

Youth Case Management (YCM)

The Youth Case Management Program provides comprehensive community- based services to seriously emotionally disturbed youth who are under 18 years of age and their families. YCM services include, but are not limited to:

• Off-site service capability
• Coordination of services
• Providing case and systems advocacy, service linkages and referrals

• Respecting the rights and dignity of youth and family members.
• Helping youth and family members or legal guardians learn to manage the youth's illness in order to prevent a relapse, re- hospitalization, or placement in a more restrictive environment.
• Empowering youth and their families to actively participate in treatment and programming in order to determine personal and program goals.
• Helping youth and their families develop and use social support systems.
• Advocating for youths on their behalf.
• Affirming each youth's strengths and abilities.

Intensive Case Management shall provide services to persons 18 years of age and older who have had difficulty maintaining stability in the community with only traditional community mental health services. The goal of ICM is to prevent further admissions to psychiatric facilities.

To meet the needs of these clients, ICM is designed to provide intensive, primarily off-site community-based services and outreach affording the client utilization of all available resources to address both basic and unique client needs. This includes services not only to the client but also to his/her natural support system (i.e. family, friends, employers, and self-help groups) to the extent the client permits this. Clients enrolled in ICM are eligible for services for a minimum of 18 months.

Homeless Mentally Ill Program (HMI)

The Homeless Mentally Ill Program provides intensive outreach, evaluation, referral, case management and treatment services to those homeless persons who may be mentally ill.

This is accomplished through several points of emphasis:

• The availability of a full-time HMI Case-manager position to serve this population exclusively. In the absence of this individual (i.e. vacations) coverage is provided and ensured through the use of Emergency Screeners and/or other Case Management staff on a temporary basis.
• The provision of effective outreach services to the homeless mentally ill, including those staying in shelter situations within Salem County.
• A combination of extensive and ongoing training of the case manager and the establishment of effective linkages with other entitlement and social service agencies is imperative, including but not limited to the County Board of Social Services, the Inter-Agency Council, United Fund Agencies, Social Security Administration, Medicare and Medicaid programs, transitional housing programs, and utilization of referrals to other such service components.
• Transportation assistance for clients involved in HMI