Community Support Team (CST)

Community Support Team (CST) provides direct support to adults with a diagnosis of mental illness, substance use, or co-morbid disorder and who have complex and extensive treatment needs. This service consists of community-based mental health and substance use services, and structured rehabilitative interventions intended to increase and restore a beneficiary’s ability to live successfully in the community. The team approach involves structured, face-to-face therapeutic interventions that assist in reestablishing the beneficiary’s community roles related to the following life domains: emotional, behavioral, social, safety, housing, medical and health, educational, vocational, and legal.

This is an intensive community-based rehabilitation team service that provides direct treatment and restorative interventions as well as case management.

CST is designed to provide:

a. symptom stability by reducing presenting psychiatric or substance use disorder symptoms;

b. restorative interventions for development of interpersonal, community, coping and independent living skills;

c. psychoeducation;

d. first responder intervention to deescalate a crisis; and

e. service coordination and ensure linkage to community services and resources.

We currently serve Mecklenburg, Union, Rowan, Cabarrus, Stanly, Davidson, Stokes, Davie, Rockingham, Yadkin, Surry, and Iredell counties.