Alberta Professional Services, Inc. is currently working with The Guilford Center towards full endorsement to provide Community Support services to the children in our residential programs as well as the greater community.

Community Support services are psychoeducational and supportive in nature and intended to meet the mental health or substance abuse needs of children and adolescents with significant functional deficits or who, because of negative environmental, medical or biological factors, are at risk of developing or increasing the magnitude of such functional deficits. Included among this latter group are those at risk for atypical development, substance abuse, or serious emotional disturbance (SED) that could result in an inability to live successfully in the community without services and guidance.

Community Support activities and services include:
• Education and training of caregivers and others who have a legitimate role in addressing the needs identified in the Person Centered Plan;
• Preventive, and therapeutic interventions designed for direct individual activities;
• Assistance with skill enhancement or acquisition, and support ongoing treatment and functional gains;
• Development of the consumer’s Person Center Plan, and one-on-one interventions with the consumer to develop interpersonal and community relational skills, including adaptation to home, school, work and other natural environments; therapeutic mentoring; and symptom monitoring and self-management of symptoms.
• Case management to arrange, link or integrate multiple services as well as assessment and reassessment of the recipient’s need for services, assisting the child or family in accessing benefits and services; to their scope of practice prior to or on the day that the services are to be provided.