Our Supportive Case Management Outreach Team (SCOT) provides blended case management to assist people with achieving their recovery goals. As a participant in our program, we help you manage your psychiatric symptoms and reduce your substance use so that you can meet your daily needs and enjoy a higher quality of life in your community.

Services

• Wellness management and relapse prevention
• Integrated treatment for mental health and substance use disorders
• Connection to educational and vocational services
• Money management and entitlement skills training
• Social relationships and interpersonal skills training
• Medication monitoring, education and support
• Coordination with health care providers
• Empowerment and self-help
• Service planning and coordination
• Groups
• Housing referrals

Our Team

Services are provided with a multi-disciplinary, recovery-oriented team approach. At the onset of your services, you will be is assigned to a primary case manager who assumes responsibility for your case management needs, coordination of services and referrals to providers both within and outside of Family Service.

Our team members include:

• Case Managers
• Clinical Director
• Peer Support Specialist
• Program Coordinator
• Psychiatric Nurse
• Psychiatrist

Eligibility

To participate, you must:

• Have a mental health diagnosis OR have co-occurring mental health and substance use diagnoses; all diagnoses must be verified by a psychiatric evaluation completed within the past year
• Be 18 or older
• Reside in Bucks County
• Have an Environmental Matrix score that reflects the need for RC/ICM services
• While most of our participants have Health Choices with Magellan as their Behavioral Health Carrier, we do have some ability to accept commercial insurance and uninsured individuals.
• Other eligibility criteria will be evaluated by our intake counselor.

We offer priority admission to at-risk populations including IV drug users, adolescents, women, women with children, veterans, overdose survivors and preferential treatment services to pregnant women.

Intake & Referrals

All referrals must include a completed Bucks County Targeted Case Management referral form and a current (completed within the past year) psychiatric evaluation.

Upon receipt of the completed referral, our staff will contact the client and/or referral source within seven business days. Admission decisions and level of care determinations are made based on referral material and completed Environmental Matrix.