A Case Manager For The Bridge Family Center

Case Managers have a challenging job, often dealing with patients, community agencies and facilitating their hospital discharge to the next level of care. They collaborate and communicate with the entire healthcare team and mostly with the patient during the hospitalization process. They act as support for all stakeholders to achieve positive patient outcomes. In this paper, I will be interviewing Ian Mopas, who is a Patient Care Coordinator at Kaiser Permanente in Redwood City about his education, work training, goals, and objectives as a Care Coordinator, and his responsibilities in his organization.

Karen Bressler has worked in the field of social work for a little under 20 years, working in the health and mental health environment in the Washington DC metropolitan area. She currently works at Green Door as the Director of Health Homes. Green Doors has a rigorous program that provides mental health services to include psychiatric and counseling services which both are coupled with case management. The agencies case management offers clients with supportive education, housing stabilization, rehabilitation day services programs, supported employment, community support, Assertive Community Treatment, and a variety of essential curriculums that many of the agencies clients have on no occasion before had access to. The agencies mission is to work to eliminate barriers that poverty, unawareness and prejudice have created, and to decrease the misconception connected with mental health circumstances. Majority of the clients served at the agency live below the federal poverty line, are African-American, and are over the age of 50. A good number of the client’s lives are plagued with one or more chronic medical condition. The agencies mission is to enhance the lives of their clients through treatemtn and services.

At 4:30 PM on October 9, 2015 I sat down with Jenniffer Marie to talk to her about her occupation. Jennifer works as a case manager for Justice Resource Institue's Intensive Foster Care Program or JRI for short. This agency is located at 132 S. Main Street in Berkley, Massachusetts. You can reach JRI by phone at (508) 821-7774. JRI serves Southeastern Massachusetts. The agency provides therapeutic foster homes for children who are involved with the department of child and family services. Services are offered to youth ages 0-22, who are unable to remain safe in an unstructured foster home. The children in the program have significant trauma in the form of; neglect, sexual abuse, physical and/or emotional abuse.

I am writing in behalf of Ms. Katie Gendaszek. Katie and I have known each other for two years. Our relationship started when I was a social studies teacher at Elmwood Middle School and she was a school counseling intern in the Elementary. With Elmwood only have one licensed school counselor for over 1,200 students, Ms. Gendaszek certainly had her hands full. While at Elmwood, I observed her take the initiative in setting up group counseling sessions for students during lunch. I saw her develop and form relationships with students that are still be fulfilled through volunteer work in the Elmwood community to this day.

I had the pleasure of interviewing one of our church parisinors, Ms. Maria. Ms. Maria is 75 years old Hispanic woman who has been a widow for the past three years. Ms. Maria was basically a stay at home Mom when her children were young and when she did work she worked as an assembly line worker. Her wages were low and her pension that she currently receives is not enough to meet her monthly needs. Her husband was the main bread winner prior to him dieing of a massive heart attack at the age of 78 while he was at work. Her husband was a cook in a resturanrt and had decied to continue to work until some of their loans were paid off. Since his death, Ms. Maria has been depressed, anxious and struggling to make ends meet and has recently been diagnosed with hypertension. Her three children live out of state a don’t get to visit often.

I had the pleasure interviewing Ms. Sabrina Anderson. Ms. Anderson is a Probation Counselor II at Foundations Residential Facility in Fairfax, Virginia. Foundations Residential Facility counsels young women between ages of 12-18 who are mandated by Fairfax Juvenile Court System due to various offences. Most of the women were victims of sexual and drug abuse. There are six residents at the facility whose probation period ranges from eight to twelve months long. The maximum number of ladies that are allowed is twelve: each counselor has two clients. The residents are required to stay at the facility for a week and then may go home on the weekends if they well behaved. In the beginning, Ms. Anderson and her client will come up with a plan/agenda

Brenda Davis, Chief of Social Work received an email from AP on August 18, 2016. The AP asked why she wasn’t selected for the position of Social Worker GS 12. Brenda Davis informed her that she wasn’t on the hiring certificate. AP wrote that RMO’s answer was too vague. AP wanted details regarding who was hired. RMO didn’t provide AP with that information. Brenda Davis made a suggestion that she speak to Timothy Wilson and ask him for constructive ways she can improve her resume. Brenda Davis explained that someone had been hired for the position but she was not aware of the selectee’s national origin or color.

For this research paper my client will be known as H.C. This particular client has suffered from multiple diagnoses during his time at Sonoma Developmental Center (SDC). My client has lived at SDC since 1947, at the age of 13 years old. H.C. willingly came to SDC when his family could no longer cope with his behaviors. He liked to be independent and was an active worker when he worked at his job sites. H.C. had a bundle of past achievements that he enjoyed mentioning to his aides by pointing at pictures. At a frail age H.C. could do his activities of daily living, but needs assistance from time to time. Physically H.C. was a short man with balding white hair and had poor eyesight so he wore glasses. His walking gait was failing and his feet would shift against the floor, so he had a walker that he could use. He was socially withdrawn and would only communicate when he felt that his needs were pressed. He had trouble finding words to communicate what he wanted to say and would like to do things on his own rather than relying on staff. He also lived by his set schedule, so anytime there was an appointment set for him he needed to be reminded before his day began.

As I conducted my interview with Andrea Williams, I learned that she has been working at this particular Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility by the name of Pecan Grove Therapeutic Group Home for Girls about a year in a half. This facility is located in Lyon, Mississippi. There are a total of ten people working there including herself. I asked series of questions to familiarize myself about the importance of her job as a director.

While as a Candy Striper at Memorial Regional Hospital, she developed an interest in Social Work from a health perspective but her main interest began when she read a book “Black like me” which was about a white male who was interested in race relations in the country where he would take drugs to make his skin darker and travel to different areas to try to experience what a black male would experience. Because of this, she chose to be in the Social Work Program.

Complicated grief is having many difficult dealing with loss. Even though that sometimes the loss has according many time before.according to katherine walsh there have been a history of depression or even anxiety for a person to go through a complicated grief. Complicated grief is when it last a long period of time and you can't just move on it hold on to you very tight. For complicated grief therapy is required. According to phsyo guides 10 percent of people going through a loss going through a complicated grief. There may need family therapy to help them during this period of time. J.william gave 4 way to deal with the loss. The first one is trying to accept that there are gone and there are not coming back. The second one is dealing with

As part of an ongoing effort to improve access to healthcare in rural areas, WeCARE Family Clinic are proposing the start-up of our new family medicine practice in Plains, Georgia. The business will be owned and managed by myself, Dr. Ieshia O. Roberts, MD as a sole proprietorship. I will be responsible for ensuring the general health of my patients and creating a viable and profitable medical practice. Throughout the year, my staff and I will work closely with advisors from Phoebe-Sumter Medical Center to get the clinic on a sound financial and operational footing, using this medical clinic business plan as a guiding management tool.

In addition to her desire to build young women, she is dedicated to her faith and family. She is a mother of two bright and talent teenagers, a wife of 15 years to an self-employed entrepreneurial and she is

I had the opportunity to interview Kimberly Bezer of Devereux Community Base Care. Kimberly has an extensive job title which is as followed: Dependency Case Manager/Intake/Out of County Supervisor. Devereux Community Base Care is a non-profit agency that is contracted by the State of Florida’s Child Protective Agency, providing services to children and families. I would describe Kimberly as a very “animated” person, which in my opinion after being employed in the human services field as a case manager for approximately six years, being energetic is necessary to remain your sanity.

\. She moved to the United States with her husband in 2004. She does not want to go back Brazil because of her safety concerns regarding a family dispute. She sought psychotherapy to cope with enduring sadness, insomnia, and explosive anger, which had been increasing in frequency over the course of several months. Currently, she resides with her 9-year-old daughter and her partner. She is troubled by the fact that they are the main target of her explosive anger and she says “I do not want to hurt their emotions.” Felisa felt ashamed of her inability to relate to her daughter and partner in a supportive way. She states that she tries to hold her anger but it gets very frustrating. Her family physician stated in his referral that he was concerned