Sec. 07.02.15.01. Purpose

A. The purpose of the Social Services to Adults (SSTA) Program is to engage clients and their formal and informal resources while in the process of decreasing risk to the client and achieving successful client goals through identification, linkage and enhancement of client supports and resources. This includes:

(1) Achieving or maintaining the client’s safe living environment in the community with formal and informal supports;

(2) Achieving or maintaining self-sufficiency;

(3) Preventing or avoiding abuse, neglect, self-neglect, or exploitation;

(4) Preventing or reducing unnecessary or inappropriate institutionalization;

(5) Achieving or maintaining economic self-support; and

(6) Securing necessary and appropriate institutional care services.

B. The program seeks to build, sustain, and augment, rather than to replace, the adult's formal or informal resources.

C. SSTA targets service delivery resources to those clients most in need.