Crisis Intervention services, applicable to adults, children and adolescents are intended to stabilize behavioral health symptoms and return individuals to pre-crisis levels of functioning and build and strengthen natural supports to maximize community tenure. Programs that exclusively provide phone support, such as warm lines or hot lines should be coded under Advocacy/Support 1760, or 988 Crisis Hotline Center 1720. This program code should not be used to report services delivered by any NYS licensed or designated crisis programs.

Psychosocial Rehabilitation (PSR) is designed to assist an individual in improving their functional abilities to the greatest degree possible in settings where they live, work, learn, and socialize. Rehabilitation counseling, skill building, and psychoeducational interventions provided through PSR are used to support attainment of person-centered recovery goals and valued life roles. Approaches are intended to develop skills to overcome barriers caused by a participant's behavioral health disorder and promote independence and full community participation. CORE PSR will incorporate allowable service components of Adult BH HCBS education, vocational, and habilitation services. CORE services are only available to individuals enrolled in a HARP or HIV SNP, and who have been recommended for CORE services by a Licensed Practitioner of the Healing Arts (LPHA).

This service is provided after a participant successfully obtains and becomes oriented to competitive and integrated employment. Ongoing follow-along is support available for an indefinite period as needed by the participant to maintain their paid employment position. Individual employment support services are individualized, person centered services providing supports to participants who need ongoing support to learn a new job and maintain a job in a competitive employment or self-employment arrangement. Participants in a competitive employment arrangement receiving Individual Employment Support Services are compensated at or above the minimum wage and receive not less than the customary wage and level of benefits paid by the employer for the same or similar work performed by individuals without disabilities. The outcome of this activity is documentation of the participant's stated career objective and a career plan used to guide individual employment support.

As one of the six Medicaid Funded Children's Health and Behavioral Health Services, OLP consists of three different service components: evaluation, counseling, and crisis. Service components include licensed evaluation (assessment); psychotherapy (counseling); and crisis intervention. OLP is performed by an individual who is licensed in NYS to diagnose, and/or treat individuals with a physical illness, mental illness, substance use disorder, or functional limitations at issue, operating within the scope of practice defined in NYS law and in any setting permissible under State law. OLP services can be provided to individuals, families, or groups, and can be provided on-site or off-site. Please reference the Medicaid State Plan Provider Manual for Children's BH Early and Periodic Screening and Diagnostic Testing (EPSDT) Services for definitions of service components and staffing requirements.

A SPOA is a process, led by a SPOA Coordinator, that helps Local Governmental Units achieve community based mental health systems that are cohesive and well coordinated in order to serve those individuals most in need of services. There are three types of SPOAs - Children's, Adult Case Management and Adult Housing. The SPOA process provides for the identification of individuals most in need of services, and manages service access and utilization.

A group-living designed residential program which focuses on interventions necessary to address the specific functional and behavioral deficits which prevent residents from accessing generic housing. These interventions are goal-oriented, intensive, and usually of limited duration. Staff is on-site 24 hours/day. This is a type of Licensed Housing/Community Residential program for adults as defined in 14NYCRR595.

Programs that provide screening, diagnostic and treatment planning services for people who are experiencing acute or chronic psychiatric problems. Included is a continuum of assessment services ranging from a comprehensive psychiatric or psychological evaluation to the administration of one or a combination of psychological tests to examine a particular personality variable. Services may be provided in a variety of settings including hospitals and community-based clinics.

As one of the six Medicaid Funded Children's Health and Behavioral Health Services, CPST services are goal-oriented supports and solution-focused interventions intended to address challenges associated with a behavioral health need and to achieve identified goals or objectives from the child's treatment plan. CPST is a face-to-face intervention with the child/youth (required), family/caregiver or other collateral supports. Service components include intensive interventions, crisis avoidance and management, rehabilitative psychoeducation, strengths-based service planning and rehabilitative supports. Please reference the Medicaid State Plan Provider Manual for Children's BH Early and Periodic Screening and Diagnostic Testing (EPSDT) Services for definitions of service components and staffing requirements.

Programs that provide screening, diagnostic and treatment planning services for people who are experiencing acute or chronic psychiatric problems. Included is a continuum of assessment services ranging from a comprehensive psychiatric or psychological evaluation to the administration of one or a combination of psychological tests to examine a particular personality variable. Services may be provided in a variety of settings including hospitals and community-based clinics.

Transition Management Services (discharge planning) programs provide support for improved community service linkages and timely filing of Medicaid applications for seriously and persistently mentally ill (SPMI) consumers being released from local correctional facilities. The TM focus will be in obtaining post-release services for these consumers. TM can only be used with funding source code 170B.