The
Semi-Independent Living Program (SILP) is designed to assist chronically
mentally ill individuals establish a residence and maintain a therapeutic living
environment. The program helps consumers achieve their highest level of
functioning by providing opportunities to develop their potential. SILP
placement is meant to be the least restrictive placement as determined by the
consumer’s capabilities and needs. The consumer lives in their own setting in an
apartment, a house, or with their family. Case managers meet with the individual
on a regular basis to assist them with their daily living skills and other needs
they might have. See the Community Support Services section for additional
information on the services provided by the case managers.
The over-riding goals of the program are to increase the resident’s length of
time in the community as opposed to being placed in a State facility in a more
restrictive living arrangement, increase the individual’s psycho-social
functioning, minimize the resident’s psychiatric symptoms, and promote a
satisfactory quality of life.
The SILP program is open to male and female adults with a diagnosis of mental
illness, i.e. a psychiatric disorder that substantially disturbs thinking,
feeling, or behavior, and impairs the person's ability to function. The consumer
is likely to have difficulty completing routine activities of daily living and
have problems with interpersonal relationships.