Community Support Services!
Important facts to remember about Community Support Services:

• CSS provide client/family choice for independent community-based living
• CSS are committed to serve as active partners in the health transformation process
• CSS can help address wait times for hospital care by reducing the number of visits to hospital emergency departments, and maintain clients in the community through enhanced education, health promotion, and illness prevention services that support the determinants of health
• CSS must be integral to a transformed client/family centered system
• CSS provide a cost-effective alternative to institutional care
• CSS have extensive experience in partnership and integration activities that will assist in achieving the transformed health system
• CSS are flexible and will build upon extensive knowledge of the community development process to help achieve an integrated health care system
• CSS serve as specialists providing professional and safe community-based support to clients closest to home
• CSS have a vested interest and can help LHIN’s achieve your goals
• CSS are prepared, and have numerous & innovative ideas on how best to integrate services on a sectoral and cross-sectoral basis to help achieve the health integration and transformation vision
• CSS provide a responsible, accountable, and efficient independent living community-based alternative to hospital and institutional long-term facility care
• CSS support a publicly funded health care system
• CSS are governed by community Boards
• CSS serve a broad base of clients including seniors, persons with physical disabilities, HIV/AIDS, mental health & addictions, and adults