Program areas at WCS
Specialized Services: specialized Services provides programs serve children, adults, and families in the Community, by providing year-round, person-centered care, and Services to meet the behavioral health and substance use recovery needs of those served. Support to individuals and families in need of assistance are provided by care coordinators, peer specialists, housing navigators, clinicians providing outpatient mental health and substance use clinical Services, and 24-hour care for children (residential treatment and youth crisis stabilization facility) and adults (supported housing). Primary programs for the year were provided in 4 service areas: youth and adult 24-hour care, care coordination and supportive Services, peer specialist programs, and treatment foster care. Approximately 4,000 people were served by the 22 programs under specialized Services.
Court Services: court Services provides Services to both youth and adults at risk of, or involved with, the justice system by providing accountability and guidance through pretrial and post-conviction supervision, monitoring and treatment Services. Services primarily involve case management and supervision Services, provided with varying levels of intensity. Some Services may require individuals served to be electronically monitoring or to submit to drug testing, which are additional Services offered under the court Services umbrella. Several programs have staff on-call 24/7/365 for the individuals served. The 21 court Services programs operated in multiple counties in the state of Wisconsin, including milwaukee, waukesha, jefferson, kenosha, ozaukee, Washington, and manitowoc county. Most of the funding comes from the county where the Services take place. These programs served approximately 5,000 individuals in 2022.
Adult behavioral health Services: the behavioral health Services area has programs that work with individual adults and families, providing Services that focus on treatment for persistent mental illness, substance abuse, housing, and overall case management to help individuals be successful in the Community. Adults and families are served by three main service areas: Community based mental health programs (cbmhp), forensics Services and Community based recovery programs. As major success in 2022 within the cbmhp, the Community support program and targeted case management programs both received contract extensions in 2021, as a result of zero deficiencies noted during state licensing audits. In total, the 11 programs within the adult behavioral health Services program area served approximately 2,000 individuals and families during the year.