What types of care can you find at your Community Services Board?
Community services boards (CSBs) bring you a range of care options for mental health, addiction and developmental services. Click below to learn more.
For mental health:
評估
CSBs provide a wide range of services to meet the needs of each person seeking care. CSB staff members recognize that people can have many different needs at the same time.
When you reach out to your local CSB, you will answer questions to determine what kind of services will be most helpful to you. Examples of questions might include where you live, whether you have insurance, and questions about your mental health or substance use challenges.
The next step is usually an assessment (sometimes called Same Day Access, intake or enrollment in services). This may happen by phone or at a walk-in location.
While hours and locations will vary depending on the CSB, all are committed to providing timely services adapted to each person’s needs.
Please have the following with you:
- Photo ID
- Proof of residency/where you live
- Insurance cards, if you have insurance
- Proof of income such as a social services determination letter, W-2 or paystub
- Picture of the pill bottle labels of any prescribed medications
- Guardianship, hospital discharge, or probation paperwork, if applicable
If you are unsure whether you qualify for services, or don’t have all the information listed above, you are still encouraged to reach out to your local CSB.
Crisis Care
If you need help with an emergency requiring immediate police, fire, or medical assistance, call 911.
For immediate mental health, substance use, or emotional support for you or someone else, call 988.
All CSBs have a comprehensive crisis system to provide the right service at the right time to people nearing crisis, experiencing a behavioral health crisis, or stabilizing after a crisis. The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) defines a crisis as “a situation that a person or their loved ones cannot safely manage on their own.”
CSB staff members provide clinical assessments and referrals to a variety of services designed to help meet your needs. Crisis counselors work with local hospitals, first responders, and community members to help resolve situations and develop plans of immediate care.
Crisis services are available at CSBs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.
Prevention
CSBs have prevention teams that promote health, safety, and wellbeing through evidence-based strategies that reduce substance misuse and support mental health. Through partnerships, education, and practical resources, prevention teams help build strong, resilient communities.
Some of the many prevention services available to you or your organization include:
- Free safety devices (such as medication lock boxes and gun locks), paired with suicide prevention education and safe medication disposal resources
- REVIVE! training to recognize and respond to opioid overdoses using naloxone
- Mental Health First Aid training to help people recognize mental health or substance use challenges and confidently offer support
- Problem gambling prevention education and resources
CSB prevention teams work closely with community partners including schools, businesses, non-profits, health departments and healthcare providers, law enforcement, youth groups, coalitions, faith communities, and others. Services are available to individuals, families, and organizations across the community. Whether you are seeking training, youth support, or information on preventing substance use or promoting mental health, your CSB offers programs designed to promote long-term health and wellbeing.
治療
The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) defines mental illness as a medical condition that disrupts a person’s thinking, feeling, mood, ability to relate to others, and daily functioning. Serious mental illnesses include major depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, panic disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, and borderline personality disorder, depending on their overall impact on someone’s day to day life.
CSBs offer an array of treatment and supports for people who are struggling with serious mental health issues. Some of the many treatment options include:
- Individual, family, and group therapy
- Mental health case management
- 藥物管理
- Rehabilitative skills development
- Residential crisis stabilization
A team of compassionate professionals works closely with each person to ensure they have the tools and support to achieve lasting recovery.
恢復
CSBs provide a broad support system to help people in mental health and substance use recovery find hope, healing, and the tools needed to reach their goals. Recognizing that everyone is unique, staff members work with each person based on their perspective and preferences to develop a personalized recovery plan.
Peer support providers are crucial to each CSB’s recovery team. They have lived experience with a mental illness and/or substance use disorder, are in successful and ongoing recovery, and are committed to helping others find their path. Family support partners are individuals who have supported a family member or loved one with mental health or substance use challenges to help them navigate the behavioral health system. Peer support providers achieve certification and gain endorsements that reflect their skills, knowledge, and expertise. Their qualifications are built through specialized education, as well as their own lived/living experience.
Recovery services at your local CSB may also include assistance with employment; housing; individual, family or group therapy; medication management; recovery groups (some are specialized for parents and teens, early-recovery, relapse prevention skills, etc.); connection to primary healthcare; and more.
For substance use:
評估
CSBs provide a wide range of services to meet the needs of each person seeking care. CSB staff members recognize that people can have many different needs at the same time.
When you reach out to your local CSB, you will answer questions to determine what kind of services will be most helpful to you. Examples of questions might include where you live, whether you have insurance, and questions about your mental health or substance use challenges.
The next step is usually an assessment (sometimes called Same Day Access, intake or enrollment in services). This may happen by phone or at a walk-in location.
While hours and locations will vary depending on the CSB, all are committed to providing timely services adapted to each person’s needs.
Please have the following with you:
- Photo ID
- Proof of residency/where you live
- Insurance cards, if you have insurance
- Proof of income such a social services determination letter, W-2 or paystub
- Picture of the pill bottle labels of any prescribed medications
- Guardianship, hospital discharge, or probation paperwork, if applicable
If you are unsure whether you qualify for services, or don’t have all the information listed above, you are still encouraged to reach out to your local CSB.
Crisis Care
If you need help with an emergency requiring immediate police, fire, or medical assistance, call 911.
For immediate mental health, substance use, or emotional support for you or someone else, call 988.
All CSBs have a comprehensive crisis system to provide the right service at the right time to people nearing crisis, experiencing a behavioral health crisis, or stabilizing after a crisis. The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) defines a crisis as “a situation that a person or their loved ones cannot safely manage on their own.”
CSB staff members provide clinical assessments and referrals to a variety of services designed to help meet your needs. Crisis counselors work with local hospitals, first responders, and community members to help resolve situations and develop plans of immediate care.
Crisis services are available at CSBs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.
Prevention
CSBs have prevention teams that promote health, safety, and wellbeing through evidence-based strategies that reduce substance misuse and support mental health. Through partnerships, education, and practical resources, prevention teams help build strong, resilient communities.
Some of the many prevention services available to you or your organization include:
- Free safety devices (such as medication lock boxes and gun locks), paired with suicide prevention education and safe medication disposal resources
- REVIVE! training to recognize and respond to opioid overdoses using naloxone
- Mental Health First Aid training to help people recognize mental health or substance use challenges and confidently offer support
- Problem gambling prevention education and resources
CSB prevention teams work closely with community partners including schools, businesses, non-profits, health departments and healthcare providers, law enforcement, youth groups, coalitions, faith communities, and others. Services are available to individuals, families, and organizations across the community. Whether you are seeking training, youth support, or information on preventing substance use or promoting mental health, your CSB offers programs designed to promote long-term health and wellbeing.
治療
CSBs offer a full array of treatment and supports for people who are struggling with addiction or substance use disorders (SUDs). CSB staff members work with each person using criteria from the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM), to determine the best treatment plan for people with substance use and/or co-occurring mental health challenges. Treatment services are matched to a person’s medical, psychological, and social needs.
Some of the many treatment options include:
- Individual, family, and group counseling
- Case management services
- Specialized programs for pregnant and parenting women
- Intensive outpatient treatment, residential treatment, and medication-assisted treatment
A team of compassionate professionals works closely with each person to ensure they have the tools and support to achieve lasting recovery.
恢復
CSBs provide a broad support system to help people in mental health and substance use recovery find hope, healing, and the tools needed to reach their goals. Recognizing that everyone is unique, staff members work with each person based on their perspective and preferences to develop a personalized recovery plan.
Peer support providers are crucial to each CSB’s recovery team. They have lived experience with a mental illness and/or substance use disorder, are in successful and ongoing recovery, and are committed to helping others find their path. Family support partners are individuals who have supported a family member or loved one with mental health or substance use challenges to help them navigate the behavioral health system. Peer support providers achieve certification and gain endorsements that reflect their skills, knowledge, and expertise. Their qualifications are built through specialized education, as well as their own lived/living experience.
Recovery services at your local CSB may also include assistance with employment; housing; individual, family or group therapy; medication management; recovery groups (some are specialized for parents and teens, early-recovery, relapse prevention skills, etc.); connection to primary healthcare; and more.
