Mental health case management works to ensure that service systems and community supports are responsive to the changing needs of adults with serious mental illness. This service seeks to assist individuals in gaining access to needed medical, psychiatric, housing, financial, social, educational, vocational, and other supports essential to meeting basic needs. The individual is a partner in assessing their own needs, obtaining services and other supports, monitoring those services, and in preventing and managing crises. Case management utilizes a person-centered approach with a focus on promoting health and recovery.