Community support services are rehabilitative and provide environmental support considered essential in assisting the client in achieving rehabilitation and recovery goals that focus on building and maintaining a therapeutic relationship with the client. Services promote the development of age-appropriate behavior. Community Support Workers assist clients in defining their goals for recovery and in meeting those goals. The strengths of the clients are emphasized in the client’s plan of care or treatment plan.
Community Support Workers first build a relationship with the client, develop the recovery plan together, and help the client to implement the plan. Some of the activities of the community support worker are to assist clients to maintain psychiatric stability; visit clients in their homes; teach menu planning, how to grocery shop, and how to cook; assist in looking for housing and employment. Community Support Workers also work with clients on substance abuse issues and physical health care needs.