Homeless Case Management
Program Description
Utilizing a clinical case management type model, the Will County Health Department, Mental Health, Forensic, & Addiction Services, PATHfunded
Homeless Case Management Program provides services that are client-centered, individualized, short to long term in duration and of
moderate to long term in intensity, for those clients who are homeless and seriously mentally ill or seriously mentally ill with a co-occurring
substance abuse problem (MISA).
Target Population
- Individual has a serious mental illness or suffering from serious mental illness and have a substance abuse disorder, and
- is 18 years of age or older, and is homeless or at imminent risk of becoming homeless.
Program Values and Principles
- Services provided are client-focused and community based;
- Services provided shall aim to; empower clients, be family-focused, be provided in a manner that is ethnically and culturally appropriate;
- Services shall be provided on and off-site;
- Services hall build upon the client's strengths and seek to assist the client in functioning in the community to the fullest extent possible;
- To provide services that are accountable and coordinated with State (SOF) and community care providers, with emphasis on continuity
and consistency levels of care;
- Seeks to protect the client's rights and assist the client in advocating for his/her rights; and
- Services provided shall be in accordance with current clinical knowledge and accepted standards of practice.
Services Provided
- Screening of all referrals
- Mental Health Assessment
- Individualized Treatment Plan Development, Modification, and Review
- Case management services
- Individual counseling
- Per physician order, medication monitoring
- Referral and linkage with basic resources (i.e., pubic benefits/entitlements, medical/dental services, substance abuse services, and vocational/
recreational services
- Assist the client in locating and obtaining save, stable and affordable permanent housing
- Assistance in developing and/or maintaining a family/community support system
- Assertive client monitoring and follow-up
Program Goals/Outcomes
- Achieve and maintain clinical stability and compliance with recommended treatment and services
- To improve and/or maximize the individual's level of functioning
- To assistance in becoming economically self-sufficient
- Prevention of unnecessary or inappropriate psychiatric hospitalizations
- Referral and linkage with identified needed services
- Provide continuity of care in service care