Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Q. What is Community Support?
Community Support is a combination of professional and paraprofessional level services. In other words, you could have more than one person working with you. These people might have different levels of education and experience.
More on community support is found on the services for adults and services for children and in the glossary of terms pages.
Q. What is Community Support Team?
This is an intensive service that provides treatment to: assist individuals to gain access to necessary services; reduce psychiatric and addiction symptoms; and develop optimal community living skills. In other words, the service is flexible and can be provided in a lot of different ways to make sure we best meet your needs. If you need help getting into a recovery program, vocational program, or other service, we can assist you in the process. If you have a crisis, or need to be hospitalized, you can call us. If you are having difficulty finding a residential program, we can help you.
More on community support team is found on the services for adults and in the glossary of terms pages.
Q. What is Outpatient Treatment (Therapy)?
Outpatient Treatment is designed to meet the clinically significant behavioral or psychological symptoms or patterns that have been identified as treatment needs for a recipient.
More on outpatient treatment is found on the services for adults, services for children, and services for DD consumers pages.
Q. What is Comprehensive Assessment?
A Comprehensive Assessment is an intensive clinical and functional face to face evaluation of a person's mental health, developmental disability, or substance abuse condition to develop a report and treatment recommendations. In other words, it is an evaluation to help decide what kinds of services will meet your needs.
More on comprehensive assessment is found on the services for adults, services for children and services for DD consumers pages.
Q. What are Adult Group Home Services?
Adult CMI Group Homes are moderate management residential facilities serving adults with chronic mental illness. In other words, to live there you must have a diagnosed mental illness and you must be stable enough to live in a setting where you take care of some things yourself and do not need a staff person around at all times or to be awake at night to ensure you are safe.
More on adult group home services is found on the services for adults page.
Q. What is a "transitional program"?
Pride also operates a "Transitional" Program in Burlington. This home is similar to a regular group home except that it is for very short term stays (up to 14 days) and has awake night staff.
More on the transitional program is found on the services for adults page.
Q. What is Residential Treatment?
A Residential Treatment Program is a highly structured and supervised residential facility. In other words, children live in a home with trained staff that are available 24 hours a day/7 days a week. The children adhere to a daily schedule, participate in activities, and may have specific behavior plans or incentive plans.
More on residential treatment is found on the services for children page.
Q. What is Therapeutic Foster Care?
Therapeutic Foster Care is a service available for kids under age 21, which is provided in a family setting. In other words, this type of program offers children the opportunity to live with a family when living with their own family is not an option.
More on therapeutic foster care is found on the services for children page.
Q. What is Targeted Case Management?
Targeted Case Management is the ongoing monitoring of services provided to individuals to meet their educational, vocational, residential, treatment, financial, social, and other treatment and non-treatment needs as identified in the individual's Person Centered Plan. In other words, we help you to figure out what services you are eligible for, and how to find these services. We also help to keep track of it all so you have one person to turn to.
More on targeted case management is found on the services for DD consumers page.
Q. What are CAP MR/DD Services?
CAP Waiver services are paraprofessional services designed to provide instruction and care to consumers, assess a consumer's living situation, and increase independent living, self help, social skills and to improve basic interactions both in the home and in the community.
More on CAP MR/DD Services is found on the services for DD consumers page.
Q. What is Supervised Living?
A Supervised Living facility is a residential setting which serves DD adults who are admitted into the program on their own volition and demonstrate the willingness and ability to comply with the rules and routines of the program. In other words, the folks who live in these houses should WANT to live there. Don't we all deserve to live in the home of our choice?
More on supervised living is found on the services for DD consumers page.
Q. Day Activity Program?
Pride operates a Day Activity Program in Jacksonville for DD adults. It is a structured day program designed to enhance vocational, educational, leisure, and self help skills.
More on supervised living is found on the services for DD consumers page.
Q. What are my rights?
You have the Right to dignity, privacy, human care, and freedom from mental and physical abuse, neglect and exploitation. You have a right to choose a provider agency, appeal medicaid decision, to request a "Person Centered Approach", have a voice.
More on your rights can be found on the legal section of this Web site.
Q. Who can make a referral to your services?
A person with special needs may be referred to PRIDE In North Carolina, Inc. by any interested party. For additional information, please contact us at one of the office locations listed on this Web site.
 Q. Where are your services provided?
We have a list of office locations. Please contact the location nearest you for more details.
Q. There are word and terms that I don't understand. Where can I find more explanation?
Please consult our glossary. If a term you don't know doesn't appear in the glossary, please contact us for more explanation. We may also add the term to the glossary to help others.
Q. What do I do in case of an emergency?
If it is a crisis involving the mental health or safety of the person served then you should follow the Crisis Plan developed and use listed telephone numbers. If you are not sure (i.e. bad weather-Hurricane or there has been an accident) call the office number or the after hours numbers given to you during your orientation process. If an emergency happens while you are in a Pride in North Carolina facility/office the staff will make sure they inform and show you available fire exits/extinguishers, evacuation plans and review emergency procedures discussed during the orientation process.
Q. What do I do if I have ideas, suggestions or concerns? What is done with this information?
Pride in North Carolina, Inc. welcomes any suggestions or input into how we can improve our services or comments on what we are doing right for you. We gather this input formally during the year by surveys that are either mailed or given to all of our stakeholders and through suggestion boxes located in each office. If there is a complaint or grievance we encourage you to read and complete the needed forms included in this handbook and work with us to resolve the matter as quickly as possible. All information or data that is collected is then used to show: how effective our services have been, number of stakeholders satisfied with our services and personnel, number of persons who experienced positive changes in their lives. In addition this information is taken and used at many different levels within the agency to improve our services and make any needed changes to our Polices or Procedures. Please know that we really want your input. Let us know your ideas, suggestions or concerns so we may better serve you!
Q. What is Comprehensive Assessment?
A Comprehensive Assessment is an intensive clinical and functional face to face evaluation of a person's mental health, developmental disability, or substance abuse condition to develop a report and treatment recommendations. In other words, it is an evaluation to help decide what kinds of services will meet your needs.
Q.Who can make a referral to your services?
Anybody can make a referral on behalf of someone that may need help due to their mental health, developmental disability, and/or substance abuse problems. All it takes is a phone call to Pride in North Carolina, Inc. or the Local Management Entity and they will assist you in accessing services.
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