Mississippi Administrative Code
Title 24 - Mental Health
Part 2 - Operational Standards for Mental Health, Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Use Community Service Providers
Chapter 32 - Intensive Community Supports for Serious Emotional Disturbance and Serious Mental Illness
Rule 24-2-32.9 - Intensive Community Outreach and Recovery Team

A. The Intensive Community Outreach and Recovery Team is a recovery and resiliency oriented, intensive, community-based rehabilitation and outreach service for adults with a severe and persistent mental illness. It is a team oriented approach to mental health rehabilitation intervention and supports necessary to assist people in achieving and maintaining rehabilitative, resiliency and recovery goals.

B. Intensive Community Outreach and Recovery services are provided primarily in natural settings and are delivered face-to-face with the person and their family/significant other as appropriate, to the primary well-being and benefit of the recipient. Intensive Community Outreach and Recovery assists in the setting and attaining of individually defined recovery/resiliency goals. The Intensive Community Outreach and Recovery primary treatment objective is to assist in keeping the people receiving the service in the community in which they live, avoiding placement in state-operated behavioral health service locations.