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Comprehensive Community Support Services

Support that comes
to where you live.

Comprehensive Community Support Services (CCSS) help adults living with serious mental illness build stable, independent lives. Most of the work happens outside the office: in homes, neighborhoods and the places people spend their days.

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At a glance

935

people supported by CCSS in FY2026

1 in 2

CCSS services delivered in clients' homes and communities, not the office

FY2026 is July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026.

Our approach

One person, one plan, every part of life.

Recovery is not only about symptoms. It is about paying rent, getting to appointments, keeping benefits, and having people in your corner. CCSS brings all of that into a single plan built around the person's own goals.

Our community support workers coordinate housing, finances, health care and community resources, and many clients also work with a Certified Peer Support Worker who has walked their own road to recovery.

What CCSS includes

Case management and planning

An individual plan that ties housing, health care, benefits and personal goals together.

Daily living skills

Practical help with self-care, managing a household and budgeting.

Benefits and paperwork

Help with Medicaid, Social Security disability (SOAR) and housing vouchers.

Community connection

Links to transportation, social activities and the resources that make independence possible.

Peer support

Certified Peer Support Workers who bring lived experience to every step of recovery.

Crisis support and follow-up

Stabilization in the community when things get hard, and steady follow-up so progress lasts.

Trauma and poverty do not happen in silos, and healing cannot happen in silos either.

How we work

Meet people where they are

In homes, neighborhoods and community settings, wherever the person is.

Lived experience

Peer workers show what recovery can look like, because they have lived it.

Warm handoffs

CCSS connects people directly to our housing, treatment and employment teams.

Get started

Main / Intake

Where: Saint Michael's Building, 2000 St. Michael's Drive, and in the community

New to The Life Link? You can walk in for Treat First onboarding, no appointment needed.

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In crisis? Call 988 (mental health) or 911 (medical).

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