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Community Based Services

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The Department of Health Care Policy and Financing is working to expand the spectrum of behavioral health services for Health First Colorado (Colorado’s Medicaid program) members. This includes services in the community to meet members where they are.

What are Community Based Services?

Community Based Services are intended to serve members with a behavioral health need in order to keep them supported and living in the community. This includes: 

Peer Services
Peer Services are supportive and skill-building activities delivered by Peer Support Professionals - individuals who use their lived experience to help others. Peers can work in a variety of settings and offer support in any area where a member with a behavioral health diagnosis is receiving care from a Health First Colorado provider. Peers are an addition to the member’s care team. They can offer practical solutions and focused problem solving to help members practice building skills needed to maintain their health and wellbeing.
Learn more on our Peer Services webpage 

Supportive Housing Services 
Supportive Housing is designed to support extremely low-income people experiencing homelessness who have a disabling condition (either physical or behavioral health) through combining a voucher (provided by the Department of Local Affairs - Division of Housing) with supportive services and clinical care to assist individuals in obtaining and retaining stable housing. 
Learn more on our Supportive Housing Services webpage

Intensive Case Management 
Intensive Case Management describes community-based services averaging more than one hour per week, provided to adults with serious behavioral health diagnoses who are at risk of hospitalization, incarceration and/or homelessness due to multiple needs and impaired level of functioning. Services are designed to provide adequate supports to ensure community living. 
Services are assessment, service plan development, multi-system referrals, assistance with obtaining wrap-around services and supportive living services, monitoring and follow-up.

Vocational Services
Vocational Services are services designed to assist adults and adolescents who are ineligible for state vocational rehabilitation services and require long-term services and supports in developing skills consistent with maintaining employment and/or in obtaining employment.
Services are skill and support development interventions, vocational assessment, and job coaching.

Clubhouses and drop-in center services
Clubhouses and drop-in center services are peer support services for people who have BH disorders, provided in Clubhouses and drop-in centers. In Clubhouses, individuals (members) utilize their skills for clerical work, data input, meal preparation, providing resource information or reaching out to fellow members. Staff and members work side by side, in a unique partnership.
In drop-in centers, members plan and conduct programs and activities in a club-like setting. There are planned activities and opportunities for individuals to interact with social groups.

Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) 
Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) is a service-delivery model that provides comprehensive, community-based treatment to adults with a serious behavioral health diagnosis. Services are highly individualized and are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year to clients who need significant assistance and support to overcome the barriers and obstacles that confront them.
ACT teams provide case management, initial and ongoing BH assessments, psychiatric services, employment and housing assistance, family support and education, and substance use disorder services.

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