Outpatient/Community-Based Service 

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Recovery. Per Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary, to recover is “to save from loss and restore to usefulness”. Staff in Southwestern Behavioral Healthcare's Community Support Services assists individuals in doing this every day. From helping someone develop the skills to better understand and manage their symptoms, to achieving a higher level of integration and independence in their community, staff actively engage individuals so they may regain a sense of self and self-worth.

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The debilitating effects of a severe mental illness can be significant and comprehensive, even when positive symptoms are well managed. Everyday tasks that many take for granted can be overwhelming or seem insurmountable. And, caring for one’s own spiritual, recreational, social, and leisure needs is often not even an afterthought.

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Using Illness Management and Recovery techniques, along with Motivational Interviewing, CSS staff work with individuals to assist them in developing the skills they can use to leverage their strengths to lessen the impact of barriers and challenges they encounter. A person-centered approach is utilized to encourage collaboration with those with whom we work to develop and achieve small objectives of their choosing to allow them to accomplish a larger, overall goal. 

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Change can be difficult, especially when immediate results are not obvious. For this reason, staff model, teach, coach, and reinforce the actions that will support a person in their own journey to recovery.

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When needed, Case Management Services are available to provide ongoing assessment of needs and strengths, treatment planning, advocacy, and linkage/referral to other providers and resources that support the persons recovery.