Skills Training & Development
Skills training and development is training provided to an eligible person, the LAR, or primary caregiver on behalf of an eligible adult, child, or youth. The training addresses:
- Serious mental illness or SED and symptom-related problems that interfere with the person’s functioning and living, working, and learning environment.
- Provides opportunities for the person to acquire and improve skills needed to function as appropriately and independently as possible in the community.
- The person’s community integration and increases his or her community tenure.
Skills Training & development at AOC Outreach
What The Training Focuses on
Skills training and supportive interventions focus on the improvement of communication skills, appropriate interpersonal behaviors and other skills necessary for independent living or, when age appropriate, functioning effectively with family, peers, and teachers.
Skills training and development services consist of increasing the LAR’s or primary caregiver’s understanding of and ability to respond to the person’s needs identified in the uniform assessment or documented in the treatment plan.
What The Training Includes
Skills training and development may include:
- Skills related to personal hygiene.
- Pro-social skills.
- Assertiveness skills.
- Anger management skills.
- Stress reduction techniques.
- Communication skills.
- Transportation utilization.
- Money management.
- The development of natural supports.
- Access to needed services in the community, e.g., medical care, substance use services, legal services, living accommodations.
- Social skills (e.g., communicating one’s needs to strangers and making appropriate choices for the use of leisure time).
Who The Training Is Not For
Persons receiving skills training and development are not eligible to simultaneously receive psychosocial rehabilitative services and both services should not be simultaneously listed in the person’s treatment plan.
No Out of pocket costs
AOC is 100% medicaid funded. That means that families have no out of pocket costs for services.
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