Community Support Advocates
"Partnering with persons with disabilities to guarantee opportunities and choices for success."
CSA Member Organizations
Community Support Advocates (CSA) is a cooperative effort of Mainstream Living, Progress Industries, and The Homestead.
Our Purpose
CSA was formed to assist persons with mental illness, intellectual disabilities, or other developmental disabilities in gaining access to appropriate housing, needed medical services, and interrelated social, vocational, and educational services.
Consumer Choice
These services are driven by consumer choice, with a focus on individualized community services and supports, and maximum community integration.
Service Coordination
Service Coordination Program-This program started in September, 2004 with 100% county-funding. These services were previously provided through DHS Service Management. Persons served in this program must have one of the following disabilities: Intellectual Disabilities (ID), Developmental Disability (DD), Chronic Mental Illness (CMI), or any type of Mental Illness (NCMI) currently under treatment. Persons in this program may or may not be eligible for Medicaid. Many persons served in this program are currently living in ICF-ID programs, RCF programs, or are in need of minimal services.
For more information contact:
Melissa Ahrens, LBSW
Case Management Director
(515) 883-1776, Ext. 246
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