Community Support Teams for Individuals/Families

• Is made up of people supporting the person/family with whom the CST is being done

• Is chosen by the person/family

• Facilitator helps the person/family to chose individuals to be on the team who want to help, whose advice the person/family will trust and who will keep the person’s/family’s business private and confidential

• Is supported by the Facilitator who helps them and the person/family to develop the strength based strategies to meet the person’s/family’s needs

• Always includes the person/family that has veto power (except with respect to safety issues) over the strategies chosen and the plan developed with and for them