Intensive Community Services (ICS) Program

Portals' Intensive Community Services (ICS) program assists adult men and women with severe, chronic mental illness to regain control of their lives and become more productive members of the community. Many ICS members have a history of repeated admissions to psychiatric hospitals and history of locked placement in an IMD. Important goals for the program include: decreasing the functional impairments confronting each member; reducing recidivism rate of locked placement and significantly reducing the number of admissions to inpatient treatment facilities.

Multi-disciplinary Portals teams develop integrated treatment and rehabilitation plans for each ICS participant. ICS case managers and service coordinators support and guide members as they move forward on the road to recovery, wellness, community integration, meaningful work, and independent living.

 

Individual treatment plans, tailored to member needs, wishes, cultural and language requirements, can include a range of supportive elements, including:  

• Life and social skills building;
• Intensive case management and psychiatric counseling;
• Crisis intervention, and
• Housing and employment guidance and support.