Intensive Community Outreach and Recovery Team

Hinds Behavioral Health Services Intensive Community Outreach and Recovery Team (I-CORT) is a recovery and resiliency-oriented, intensive, community-based rehabilitation, and outreach service for adults living with a persistent mental illness in rural areas. I-CORT is a mobile medical team, providing convenient and consistent care to individuals in a community-based or home setting two times per week. A Registered Nurse, Mental Health Therapist, Certified Peer Support Specialist, and other staff deliver mental health services face-to-face or by phone or video conferencing.

Eligibility

• Adults living in rural locations within Hinds County, MS (Clinton, Utica, Raymond, Terry, Bolton, Edwards, & Byram)
• Severe and persistent mental illness (schizophrenia, other psychotic disorders & bipolar disorder)
• Multiple psychiatric hospitalizations or emergency psychiatric services in the same year
• Significant functional impairments, such as difficulty with practical daily living tasks, vocational impairment, and housing instability
• Qualifying populations: difficulty using “traditional office-based” outpatient services due to debilitating and ongoing symptoms, resident of an inpatient or supervised living community, co-existing substance abuse disorder, high risk of criminality or recent criminal justice history, and/or significant difficulty meeting basic survival/self-care needs.
• Non-qualifying populations: primary substance abuse disorder, brain injury, intellectual disability, or other Axis II disorders.

We Offer

• Individual mental health therapy & supportive counseling
• Recovery/resiliency support & symptom management
• Medication administration/monitoring
• General healthcare treatment
• Social/hygiene skills training
• Budgeting skills & leisure time activities
• 24-hour on-call crisis response

I-CORT Referral Process

• COMPLETE I-CORT REFERRAL FORM
• HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS: provide the individual’s last history and physical (or psychiatric evaluation), psychosocial assessment, and three (3) most recent progress notes.
• INPATIENT CARE PROVIDERS: allow time before discharge for a required face-to-face pre-screening.

Resource Links:

• Community Support Services
• Peer Support Services