Ozaukee County, Wisconsin - Department of Human Services

Chapter HSS 63 of the Wisconsin Administrative Code states that a Community Support Program (CSP) must provide treatment, rehabilitation, and support services for individuals who suffer a long-term, severe and persistent mental illness, and live in the community. The objectives of CSP treatment interventions are to help these persons function with a better quality of life and to prevent, or at least to reduce placements in more costly and restrictive settings. The recovery model we follow helps many clients to focus on their personal strengths versus the limitations imposed by their illness. Clients, over time, can learn to manage their illness independently. In some cases this means that a client no longer needs CSP. Prior to discharge, we focus our efforts toward helping the person to develop the skills and community resources they need to be independent of the intensive level of CSP services.