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Causes: Centers to Support the Independence of Specific Populations, Human Services
Mission: Onondaga case management services, inc. Assists people with difficult life challenges to develop personally meaningful lives.
Programs: Health home care managementsee schedule o for futher details. Circare's largest program, health home care management, provides care coordination to medicaid beneficiaries who have a serious mental illness, who are living with hiv/aids or who have two or more chronic health conditions. Health home care management is a service model designed for medicaid beneficiaries to ensure effective coordination and management of care, leading to positive health outcomes for individuals. Circare care managers work with individuals to develop and maintain a comprehensive plan for accessing and using services and supports necessary for the person's health. In addition to providing the service at circare, the organization is deemed a regional lead health home by new york state. As a lead health home, circare is responsible for managing a network of providers ("downstream agencies") and the provision of health home care management services to eligible enrollees in eight central new york counties. As a health home care management agency, circare provided care management services to 2,350 adult medicaid beneficiaries in 2017.
assertive community treatmentsee schedule o for further details. The assertive community treatment team (act) is a multi-disciplinary team that includes psychiatry, nursing, social work, vocational, substance use rehabilitation and a peer specialist. The team serves individuals in the community who are diagnosed with and impaired by a mental health condition. The act service model is an evidenced based practice designed specifically to assist individuals who are not well engaged by traditional services. Ninety percent of act services are provided in the community, at a person's home, a shelter, the home of family and friends and at medical and other appointments. Act is often referred to a "mental health clinic on wheels". Prior to act services, individuals are often hospitalized for psychiatric reasons and/or frequently present in emergency departments. In 2017, the act team served an average of 57 unique individuals with a total of 684 total number of service units provided.
circare's outpatient behavioral health clinicsee schedule o for further details. Circare's outpatient behavioral health clinic is licensed through the new york state office of mental health and serves individuals 17 years and older. The clinic specializes in providing high quality clinical services to individuals seeking behavioral health interventions. Circare's team of licensed clinicians engage individuals in a meaningful and hopeful change process that supports recovery and well-being and, the team continuously works to build knowledge and skill sets in various modalities in order to provide the best treatment possible. In 2017, circare's outpatient behavioral health clinic served 700 clients and provided a total of 12,400 individual sessions which averages to approximately 18 visits per client.