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Comprehensive Community Services
CCLS offers Comprehensive Community Services (CCS) to Dane County residents ranging from ages 4 to 85+. These are services and support activities that assist clients with mental health and/or substance use conditions to achieve their highest possible level of independent functioning, stability, and independence, and to facilitate recovery.
CCLS offers the following CCS services:
Medication Management
Physical Health Monitoring
Individual Skill Development & Enhancement
Employee-related Skill Training
Wellness Management & Recovery/
Recovery Support Services
Medication Management
Services may include: seeing a psychiatrist, learning more about your medications, and monitoring changes in symptoms and side effects.
Physical Health Monitoring
Activities to help you learn about your physical health and how to take better care of yourself. This may include assisting and training the member and the member’s family to identify symptoms of physical health conditions, monitoring physical health medications and treatments, and developing health monitoring and management skills.
Individual Skill Development and Enhancement
Training in communication, interpersonal skills, problem solving, decision-making, self-regulation, conflict resolution, and other specific needs identified in the member’s service plan. Services also include training in daily living skills related to personal care, household tasks, financial management, transportation, shopping, parenting, accessing and connecting to community resources and services (including health care services), and other specific daily living needs identified in the member’s service plan. Services provided to minors also focus on improving integration into and interaction with the minor’s family, school, community, and other social networks. Services include assisting the minor’s family in gaining skills to assist the minor with individual skill development and enhancement.
Employment Related Skill Training
These services help with finding and keeping a job. services address the member’s illness or symptom-related problems in finding, securing, and keeping a job. Services may include, but are not limited to: employment and education assessments; assistance in accessing or participating in educational and employment related services; education about appropriate job-related behaviors; assistance with job preparation activities such as personal hygiene, clothing, and transportation; on-site employment evaluation and feedback sessions to identify and manage work-related symptoms; assistance with work-related crises; and individual therapeutic support.
Wellness Management & Recovery/Recovery Support Services
Services to help you take charge of your illness and develop skills needed to make treatment decisions you feel good about. include empowering members to manage their mental health and/or substance abuse issues, helping them develop their own goals, and teaching them the knowledge and skills necessary to help them make informed treatment decisions. These services include: psychoeducation; behavioral tailoring; relapse prevention; development of a recovery action plan; recovery and/or resilience training; treatment strategies; social support building; and coping skills. Recovery support services include: assisting the member in increasing engagement in treatment, developing appropriate coping strategies, and providing aftercare and assertive continuing care. Continuing care includes relapse prevention support and periodic follow-ups and is designed to provide less intensive services as the member progresses in recovery.