Activity Center

The Activity Center is a safe place for consumers of the Baton Rouge region to experience new learning opportunities, encourage social interaction and make new friends. The goal of the program is to integrate people with physical, mental and emotional challenges into the community to interact with others.

Adult Day Habilitation Program (NOW)

This program assists adults with physical and/or mental disabilities to help cultivate their creative and social talents through daily activities. The goals are to improve participants' quality of life and to help them make important contributions to their community.

Children and Adolescent Response Team (CART)

This program delivers immediate quality treatment interventions to families who feel that they are in crisis. Children and adolescents under the age of 18 who are experiencing acute crisis are eligible to receive CART Respite services. These children and adolescents may or may not be an active cases with Office of Mental Health. CART respite services goal is to provide community-based support resolutions and to decrease hospital admissions.

Children's In-Home Respite Program

The GCTFS' Children's Crisis In-Home Respite Program offers children and families in crisis one-on-one supervision and guidance for a brief period of time, with the goals of successfully meeting new behavior goals and maintaining the child in his/her environment.

Community Psychiatric Support and Treatment (CPST)

Community Psychiatric Support and Treatments are goal-directed supports and solution focused interventions intended to achieve identified goals or objectives as set forth in the individual's individualized treatment plan. CPST is a face-to-face intervention with the individuals present: however, family or other collaterals may also be involved. Services will be conducted in the community where the individual lives, works, attends school, and socializes.

Early and Periodic Screening Diagnosis Treatment (EPSDT)

EPSDT Personal Care Services are provided to eligible individuals from birth to age 21 with physical limitations caused by illness or injury. The assistance provided includes eating, bathing, dressing, personal hygiene.

Community Choice Waiver (CCW)

This Medicaid-funded waiver program provides personal care attendant services to qualified elderly individuals and adults with disabilities. Personal care attendants help consumers to live independently with support in their communities rather than in a nursing home or institution. This program provides assistance with such activities as: personal hygiene, light household chores, shopping, meal preparation, eating, bathing, dressing, laundering, and other areas specified in the Interdisciplinary Service Plan.

Family Caregiver Program

Respite is provided to caregivers of qualified elderly individuals for the purpose of relieving the caregiver of care responsibilities for brief periods of time. A personal care attendant assists the elderly individuals with all necessary daily activities of living during the time of respite.

Family Support

This program provides support to individuals with developmental disabilities on an as needed basis.

Independent Living Skills Program (ILSP)

By focusing on daily independent living skills training, this program prepares foster youths, ages 16 � 18, for release from foster care.

Individualized Private Contracts

This service is provided on an as needed basis to individuals who seek services using private pay.

Long-Term Personal Care Services (LT-PCS)

This is a Medicaid-funded non-waiver program which provides a limited amount of personal care services to qualified recipients. These services allow the individuals, whose needs would otherwise necessitate placement in nursing homes, to remain safely in their homes. Services must be prescribed by a physician, prior authorized, and provided in accordance with an approval service plan and supporting documentation.

Mental Health Children Services

Severely emotionally disturbed children in the Lafayette Region are provided services, including in-home crisis intervention, case management, respite services, and consumer-care resources.

Mental Health Clinic Services

to provide staff to South Central LA Human Services Authority to perform those services needed in the clinic setting. Mental health services are provided in the Terrebonne Parish Addictive Disorders Clinic in Terrebonne Parish. These services include crisis intervention, case management, mental health assessments, case planning and treatment, and consumer-care resources.

Moving Upward

Assistance is provided to people, 18 or older, who are homeless. Services include financial support, locating housing, counseling, and skills training, such as budgeting, hygiene, job-skills training, interviewing techniques, and other basic needs. People are linked to resources, such as shelters, child care, disability benefits, and food banks.

New Opportunity Waiver (NOW)

This Medicaid-funded waiver program provides personal care attendant (PCA) services to qualified individuals with developmental disabilities to assist them in the performance of necessary daily-living activities. Such activities may include assistance with personal hygiene, light household chores, shopping, recreation, meal planning and preparation, eating, bathing, dressing, and proper use of bathroom facilities. This program was formerly known as the MR/DD Medicaid Waiver Program, and supports programs such as PCA services, Supported Independent Living services, Day Habilitation Services, and Substitute Family Care services.

Nurturing Parenting Program

The Nurturing Parenting Program seminars for Families in Substance Abuse Treatment and Recovery are designed to assist parents in strengthening their own recovery and to build a nurturing family lifestyle. The program focuses on three main values: authenticity, mutuality, and empathy.

OCDD Life Skills Mentoring

Life skills training to individuals within the OCDD system who have been determined by the court system, DHH, or another state agency to be at risk.

Outpatient Therapy for Children/Youth

Individual, family, group outpatient psychotherapy and mental health assessment, evaluation, and testing.

Personal Care Services for Disabled Military Veterans

GCSS is authorized by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to provide personal care attendant services for the disabled military veterans that are referred by the Department's Medical Staff. The individuals must be currently receiving treatment and have a documented need for personal care services in order to be referred by VA.

Personal Care Attendant Program (PCA) (NOW)

This program provides planned personal care attendant services to assist disabled individuals in the performance of necessary daily living activities. This program also provides respite care to relieve caretakers of their responsibilities for brief periods of time. The purpose of these services is to promote deinstitutionalization of children and adults with developmental disabilities by providing services to their families or to the individual. PCA services allow the individual to live at home, or if possible, to live independently. Each individual who receives PCA services has a plan of care. Care planning is conducted by the individual, his/her family, and a group of professionals.

ROW Host Home

A residential option available to participants who wish to live in a family setting, when residing with their immediate family is not an option. The program is available to individuals with developmental disabilities who would otherwise require support through an Intermediate Care Facility for the Developmentally Disabled.

Short Term Respite Care

This program provides temporary direct care and supervision for the child/youth in the child's home or a community setting that is not facility-based. The primary purpose is relief to families/caregivers of a child with a SED or relief of the child.

Special Programs/Specialized Respite

Respite services are provided on an emergency or planned basis for parents living with children or adults with developmental disabilities or in mental health programs. These services may be offered in-home, out-of-home, or may be recreational in nature

Substitute Family Care (NOW)

This program provides support to individuals who do not have a legal guardian. The individual lives with a Substitute Family who ensures the individual receives the necessary care and services to attain or maintain the highest practicable physicial, mental, and psychosocial well-being in accordance with a comprehensive plan of care

Supervised Independent Living (SIL � NOW)

This Medicaid-funded program is a component of the New Opportunities Waiver (NOW) and is designed to teach individuals with developmental disabilities to live as independently as possible in a home setting of their own within the community. In the program, consumers learn valuable skills, such as money management, safety, cooking, housekeeping, social skills, self administration of medication, transportation, hygiene, grooming, and the use of community resources. The NOW program is formerly known as the MR/DD Medicaid Waiver Program. The individuals may also be served through the Office of Citizens with Developmental Disabilities (OCDD) contract or through private-pay contract.

Support Waivers Program

This program allows recipients to receive services in their home instead of institutional care. The program focuses on limited respite care for the caregiver and primarily promotes supported employment or day habilitation programs.

Therapeutic Foster Care (TFC)

With our Foster Care Program, therapeutic homes in the community are available with specially trained foster parents who care for abused, neglected, or troubled children and adolescents, as well as for children with physical and/or mental disabilities

Tracker/Mentoring

This Office of Juvenile Justice/Youth Services program provides preventative services to at-risk youth referred by that agency. Services are of an intensive nature and include surveillance, counseling, mentoring, social-skills training, educational tutoring, pre-employment training, and job search.

Traumatic Head/Spinal Cord Injury (THI/SCI)

THI/SCI provides evaluations, post-acute medical care, rehabilitation, therapies, medication, attendant care, and equipment necessary for activities for daily living. Other goods and services, deemed appropriate and necessary, are provided with this program. The Trust Fund will not provide any service that is in the experimental stages. GCSS provides case management services for this program.

Psychosocial Rehabilitation Services

Supportive mental health services are provided to individuals and families, both adults and children with the following goals: restore, rehabilitate and support social and interpersonal skills in the child's social environment including home, work and school; develop daily living skills to decrease negative side effects of psychiatric or emotional symptoms; implement learned skills so the child can remain in natural community location; assist the child in responding to or avoiding triggers that result in functional impairments.