Promising Practices in HCBS: California- Village Integrated Service Agency

Article Publication Date:

12/28/2004

Summary:

This document highlights the Village Integrated Service Agency, a program of the Mental Health Association in Los Angeles County. The program provides coordinated, comprehensive services for people with mental illness. Available services are determined by the needs and goals of the participants. This report describes the program and its effectiveness in helping people with mental illness live independently.

Article Author:

Leventhal Stern, Amy

Topics:

Consumer/Participant Direction; Resource Center

Types/Tools:

Promising practices

Populations:

Psychiatric Disabilities/Mental Illness; Psychiatric Disabilities/Mental Illness

Sources:

CMS; Truven Health Analytics (formerly Thomson Reuters)

Programs/Initiatives:

Aging and Disability Resource Center; Peer Supports