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.

Beds operated by the Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program which are usually located in or adjacent to the CPEP emergency room, are available 24 hours per day, seven days per week to provide extended assessment and evaluation as well as a safe and comfortable environment for up to 72 hours for persons, who in the opinion of the examining physicians, require extensive evaluation, assessment, or stabilization of their acute psychiatric symptoms. Extended observation bed services are reimbursed at the inpatient psychiatric rate of the hospital where the CPEP is located. This program is one of four program components which, when provided together, form the OMH licensed Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program (CPEP). The other program components of the CPEP are: CPEP Crisis Intervention (3130), CPEP Crisis Outreach (1680) and CPEP Crisis Beds (2600).

CPST includes time-limited, goal-directed supports and solution-focused interventions with the intent to achieve person-centered goals and objectives. This is a multi-component service that consists of therapeutic interventions such as clinical counseling and therapy, which assist the consumer in achieving stability and functional improvement in the following areas: daily living, finances, housing, education, employment, personal recovery and/or resilience, family and interpersonal relationships and community participation. CPST is designed to provide mobile treatment services to individuals who have difficulty engaging in site-based programs, or who have not been previously engaged in services, including those who had only partially benefited from traditional treatment. CPST allows for delivery of services within a variety of permissible off-site settings including, but not limited to, community locations where the individual lives, works, learns, and/or socializes.

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.

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.

Youth Peer Advocate (YPA) services offer positive youth development-centered services for waiver participants with a resiliency/recovery focus. Waiver YPA services are designed to support Waiver participants in the restoration and expansion of the skills and strategies necessary to move forward in meeting their personal, individualized life goals and to support their transitioning into adulthood. Waiver YPA services are planned to assist waiver participants with identifying and enhancing their strengths, supports (community and natural) and teach self-advocacy skills.

Family Support and Training offers instruction, emotional support, and skill building necessary to facilitate engagement and active participation of the family in the individual's recovery process. The FST practitioner partners with families through a person-centered or person-directed, recovery oriented, trauma-informed approach.

Family is defined as the individual's family of choice. This may include persons who live with or provide support to a person, such as a parent, spouse, significant other, children, relatives, foster family, or in-laws. Family does not include individuals who are employed to care for the participant.

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 program supports people with serious mental illness (SMI), and/or children with Serious Emotional Disturbance (SED)regardless of Medicaid enrollment. Care coordination services may include linking people to needed services, monitoring established goals and outcomes and providing case specific advocacy. The program does not bill Medicaid for its services. Funding is provided via State Aid. People who meet Health Home eligibility should not be served with these resources; they should be enrolled in a Health Home Care Management program.

This program code includes the former Bridger Services (previously program code 1990) and Case Management Services (previously program code 0810).

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.

Empowerment Services (Peer Support) are non-clinical, peer-delivered services with focus on rehabilitation, recovery, and resilience. They are designed to promote skills for coping with and managing behavioral health symptoms while facilitating the utilization of natural supports and community resources.

Peer Support must include the identified goals or objectives in the member's individualized service plan, with interventions tailored to the individual. These goals should promote utilization of natural supports and community services, supporting the person's recovery and enhancing the quality of their personal and family life. The intentional, goal-directed activities provided by this service emphasize the opportunity for peers to model skills and strategies necessary for recovery, thereby developing the individual's skills and self-efficacy. These services are provided through the perspective of a shared personal experience of recovery, enhancing the individual's sense of empowerment and hope.