A referred person/family will be assigned a CST Facilitator whose role will be to work in partnership with the person/family to help them pull together their CST team. This team will be comprised of the person/family themselves, their friends, community support people, and the service providers involved with them that they find helpful. This is the person’s/family’s team. They decide who will be on their team.
The Facilitator works with the person/family to help them identify their strengths, their culture and their priority needs. The Facilitator and the person/family then bring together the person’s/family’s CST and together they review this information with the team. The Facilitator then helps the person/family and their team to work through a highly structured, intense and frequent planning process. The product of this planning is the development of a comprehensive plan that addresses the needs of the identified person/family by developing strategies which the person/family chooses that build on the strengths of the person/family, their team, and the community in which they live. In essence, this team “wraps” services and supports around the person/family.
Any needs of the person/family that require volunteer and/or in kind donations that are beyond the resources of the person/family and their team to provide are communicated (in a non identifying way to the person/family) to the members of the Community Mobilization Team who assist by mobilizing the community to acquire the necessary resources.
HOW CST: DESCRIPTIONS OF KEY ROLES & FUNCTIONS IN A COMMUNITY CST INITIATIVE