Community Living Limited offers commissioners, stakeholders, service users and their carers an opportunity to keep specialist in-patient stays within the community or as close to home as possible. Community Living Limited is underpinned by the following key aims; • Managing the crisis at the point of crisis • Promoting increased connectivity with home area treatment teams, and service user’s carers by having good transport links and being centrally located • Promoting reduced lengths of stay and offering independence at the earliest opportunity by existing in the heart of communities and enabling on-going pathways • Providing specialist services that meet the needs of the community and the individual • Supporting individuals who need our care to transition into and out of our service by providing dedicated support via our transitional worker Community Living Limited acknowledges; • Inpatient stays should be for the shortest amount of time possible • Inpatient stays form part of the overall pathway for an individual in crisis • Inpatient stays should be integrated into the community ensuring high levels of local support and maintaining as much independence as possible