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.

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.

As one of the six Medicaid Funded Children's Health and Behavioral Health Services, YPS services are formal and informal services designed to support youth who are experiencing social, medical, emotional, developmental, substance use, and/or behavioral challenges in their home or community.áThe service provides the support necessary to encourage engagement and active participation of the youth in the treatment planning process and with the ongoing implementation and reinforcement of skills. The service is delivered by a Credentialed Youth Peer Advocate (CYPA), who must be 18 to 30 years old and has self-identified as a person who has first-hand experience with social, emotional, medical, developmental, substance use, and/or behavioral challenges. The need for this service must be determined by a licensed practitioner and included within a treatment plan. Service components include activities to help the youths to achieve functional improvement, including skill building, coaching, engagement, bridging and transition support, self-advocacy, self-efficacy and empowerment, and community connections and natural support. 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.

Family Peer Support Services (FPSS) are an array of formal and informal services and supports provided to families raising a child who is experiencing social, emotional, developmental, substance use and/or behavioral challenges in their home, school, placement, or community. FPSS provide a structured, strength-based relationship between a Family Peer Advocate and the parent or family member for the benefit of the child. For the purposes of this service, "family" is defined as the persons who live with, or provide care to, a child and may include a parent, spouse, sibling, children, relatives, grandparents, guardians, foster parents or others with significant attachment to the individual. FPSS are provided by a trained and credentialed Family Peer Advocate (FPA) who is uniquely qualified to work with families based on their personal experience parenting a child with similar needs. FPSS can be provided through individual and group face-to-face work (at the family's home, in the community or in an office) or by video conferencing with face-to-face interface. Categories of FPSS include: Outreach and Information; Engagement; Bridging and Transition Support; Self-Advocacy, Self-Efficacy and Empowerment; Parent Skill Development; Community Connections and Natural Supports; and Promoting Effective Family-Driven Practice.

As one of the six Medicaid Funded Children's Health and Behavioral Health Services, FPSS are an array of formal and informal activities and supports provided to families caring for/raising a child who is experiencing social, emotional, medical, developmental, substance use and/or behavior challenges in their life. FPSS provide a structured, strength-based relationship between a Family Peer Advocate (FPA) and the parent/family member/caregiver for the benefit of the child/youth. The need for this service must be determined by a licensed practitioner and included within a treatment plan. Family is defined as the primary care-giving unit and is inclusive of the wide diversity of primary caregiving units in our culture. Service components include activities to help the families to develop resources and supports for the benefit of the child/youth, including engagement, bridging and transition, self-advocacy, self-efficacy and empowerment, parent skill development, and community connections. 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.

OMH-designated Specialty Mental Health Care Management programs, administered by Specialty Mental Health Care Management Agencies (SMH CMAs), provide services to the Health Home Plus (HH+) population. HH+ is an intensive level of Health Home Care Management provided to defined high-need adult populations with serious mental illness who are enrolled in a Health Home (HH) serving adults. To ensure the intensive needs of these individuals are met, SMH CMs must assure HH+ individuals receive a level of service consistent with the requirements outlined in the Health Home Plus for High-Need Individuals with Serious Mental Illness Program Guidance. The differential monthly rate for HH+ is higher compared to the Health Home High Risk/Need Care Management and Health Home Care Management rates, and is intended to appropriately reimburse for the intense and consistent support needed for this population.

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).

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.

Peer-based services for people with disabilities.