North Carolina Services
Residential Services
PAI has become well-known in many areas of the state as providing person-centered and innovative approaches to assisting individuals with residential supports. Single living situations, homes with chosen roommates, and group homes are all ways that PAI has been able to assist people in finding the best living environment for them. We are able to provide both case management and direct care services.
Community Alternatives Program (CAP)
The Community Alternatives Program (CAP) is a Medicaid community care funding source for persons with mental retardation and other developmental disabilities. Our agency provides a variety of CAP services to individuals according to their specific needs and interests. We work to connect and/or reconnect the people we serve with their families and friends by assisting them with integration in their community and by using person-centered approaches to assist them in achieving their personal goals. PAI staff has much experience as both case managers and direct supporters.
Developmental Therapies (DT)
Developmental Therapies, like CAP services, is a service designed to meet the needs of individuals with mental retardation and other developmental disabilities. The service provides training in the areas of skill acquisition, self-care, socialization, independent living, and self-advocacy.
Community Support and Team Services (CSS & CST)
Community Support services are designed to meet an individual's mental health/substance abuse treatment, recovery, financial, social, educational, and vocational needs. Because of PAI's philosophy of person-centeredness and belief in recovery, our agency excels in providing a wrap-around service to help in all needed areas of support. Community Support also includes providing face-to-face and telephonic response within two hours on a 24/7/365 basis to enrolled persons experiencing a crisis situation. PAI has had much experience with being on-call for crisis situations and has had much success in de-escalating a potentially severe situation by assisting someone with solving problems and creating immediate solutions or resolutions. Our team is skilled in both service coordination and direct support.
Peer Support
The peer support program is intended to serve individuals in a psychiatric hospital, who are considering discharge, recently discharged, or who live in the community. Everyone in our program has voluntarily chosen to participate. In addition to this process, individuals in the community may self-refer to the program or attend one of our peer support meetings. Recovery services give hope to those individuals who have been recently hospitalized for long periods of time, and those who have had high rates of readmission into a hospital. The staff are primarily mental health or substance abuse professionals that have personal experience with mental illness or substance abuse.
Vocational Training
Provided through a contract with Vocational Rehabilitation, this person-centered program is designed for individuals of all disabilities. In some of our offices, we are the only service agency to provide services for the Deaf & Hard of Hearing population. Career Coaches assist with the individual through evaluation, job development, job searches, resume writing, interview skills development, intensive training and long term support. Training in all areas related to securing and maintaining employment is taught at each individual's level of need, skill, and understanding. Normalization of the person served within the community and work place are keystones to the program.
Ticket to Work (TTW)
Ticket to Work is an employment program created in 1999 by the Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act and is administered by the Social Security Administration (SSA). Ticket to Work is a voluntary program that offers beneficiaries an expanded opportunity to obtain services and supports that they need to work and to achieve their employment goals. Beneficiaries must be between age 18 and 64, and receiving Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and/or Supplemental Security Income (SSI) based on disability to qualify for a ticket.
Early Intervention (EI)
The Early Intervention (EI) program is a service designed to meet the needs of families and children from birth to age three who have developmental delays and other special needs. PAI has had remarkable success with these children. Both the families of the children served and the Children's Development Services Agencies (CDSA's) have been pleased with our certified staff's skill, knowledge of early childhood development, communication, and interactions.
