
Community Support Team
Providing innovative care for those living with substance use and mental health challenges through a team approach
SouthLight’s Community Support Team (CST) offers an intensive, community-based team approach to individuals with complex treatment needs who have a primary Mental Health and/or Substance Use diagnosis. CST increases an individual’s ability to live successfully in the community.
SouthLight’s Community Support Team assists individuals with:
- Skill development of interpersonal, community, coping and independent living skills
- Symptom management
- Psychoeducation
- Crisis intervention
- Community integration
- Coordination of care
If you or someone you know is struggling with mental health and/or substance use, please seek help. Call us at 919-787-6131 or contact us online.
What to Expect
- Up to 6 months of In-Home/Community services
- Face-to-face contact each week
- Access to first responder crisis response and interventions
- Structured team approach to therapeutic services
- Connected to community resources
Learn more about what to expect when you become a SouthLight client.
The Team
Team members combine their unique skills to collaboratively support individuals in the ongoing
development, implementation, and revision of their Person-Centered Plans.
Expected Outcomes Include
- Improved overall quality of life
- Decrease the frequency or intensity of crisis episodes
- Improved community interaction
- Increased ability to live as independently as possible
- Increased identification and management of triggers, cues and symptoms
- Increased coping and social skills
- Increased ability to maintain a stable living environment
- Decreased criminal justice involvement
- Decreased number of individuals experiencing homelessness