Behavioral Health Case Study: Southwest Network

Mrs. Nelson holds the positions of Patients Relations Manager which is responsible for the JC elements of patient rights and the CMS elements for patient grievances; the Privacy Officer which oversees all ongoing activities, related to the development, implementation and maintenance of the organization 's privacy policies in accordance with applicable HIPAA and HITECH regulations, and the Recipients Rights Director and is responsible for the administration, investigation, monitoring of recipients of public mental health services.

Pennsylvania Mentor’s Lehigh Valley location provides Intensive Case Management (ICM) / Resource Coordination (RC) service, Family Based Mental Health Services and Certified Peer Support Services (CPS). Although these three programs are different, they all provide services to their clients in the home and in the community. ICM/RC’s help their clients with scheduling and following through with medical and mental health appointment, navigating social security and public welfare system, finding employment and utilizing community resources. Family Based Mental Health offers intensive mental health treatment to children who have a mental health diagnosis while providing services to their families. The CPS program help’s clients meet their recovery goals through the support of an individual who also has a mental health diagnosis.

On Tuesday July 7, 2015, at approximately 3:01 PM, Kiana Beekman, (MFCU Investigator) (Beekman) received a call on the state office telephone from HILL, Lucy (Service Facilitator of Lucy Hill Services (LHS). During the conversation, Beekman asked HILL to clarify her role and responsibilities as a service facilitator, in addition to the role and responsibilities of HARRIS, LaFrance as the Employer of Records (EOR) for Medicaid Recipient DANIEL, Rose and MCGHEE, Inocencia as DANIEL’s aide. She was also asked to provide any documentation of training on timesheet submission and approvals that she provided HARRIS and MCGHEE under the Department of Medicaid Services (DMAS) Consumer-Directed care aide program.

The service user I chose to assess is a 17-year-old Hispanic male whose modified name is Ricardo Sanchez. I provided casework services to Ricardo for two years in my previous role as a Therapeutic Caseworker at my current workplace, the Children’s Village, a foster care agency. Ricardo was placed in foster care after he was removed from his father’s care due to verbal and physical abuse. Ricardo’s father assumed his custody after Ricardo’s mother passed over a drug overdose when he was 15. This was Ricardo’s second time in foster care. Ricardo’s first foster care experience happened when he was 10 years-old as a result of alleged physical abuse by his mother, who at the time had full custody of Ricardo. The report was made by Ricardo’s third grade teacher after noticing bruises on Ricardo’s arms. At the time, Ricardo was only in foster care for two months as

On Friday September 14th, 2017, I attended the Behavioral Health Integration Advisory Committee Meeting. The main purpose of this committee is to discuss Nebraska’s care plan on how to properly deal with behavioral health institutions and what policies should be implemented to behavioral health institutions in Nebraska. The selection of the committee is by election every 2 years. There are 14 voting members on the committee that are represented from all areas of behavioral health in Nebraska.

The National Council is an organization helping people with addictions to veterans with behavior health issues such as PTSD as well as spreading awareness and educating on mental first aid. The National Council for Behavioral Health prides itself on being the unifying voice of America’s mental health and addictions treatment organizations. Partnered with approximately 2,500 member organizations, the National Council claims to be committed to all Americans having access to high-quality, comprehensive, care that explores unlimited opportunities for recovery. The National Council brought Mental Health First Aid to America and has documented that more than 500,000 individuals have been trained as a mental health first aider. The National

This Micro Assessment is about a client named Jane Doe that presented at CPS in Copperas Cove after having an altercation with her husband. Jane is a young mother that has a history of mental health and anger management issues. She has been married for just over a year. The client and her husband have a history of arguing and fussing in front of the children. Jane

Tristan is a sixteen year old male that has been admitted to Newport News Behavioral Health Center for the following reasons: mood instability, impulsivity, substance abuse, and poor impulse control.

The practice setting I am currently interning at is the Community Mental Health for Ingham, Clinton, and Eaton counties (CEICMH), specifically within the Families Forward department. This department within the CEICMH works closely with children who are experiencing serious emotional disturbances and behavioral concerns, as well as offering needed support to their family. The services provided include inpatient and outpatient therapy, emergency services and urgent care, early intervention services, and wraparound services. My role within Families Forward is as an intern in the Wraparound program. Wraparound facilitators provide service to families by creating a plan to help the family navigate through the child’s treatment process to assure

Case management services were provided through an FTM (family team meting) in the youth’s home. Present at the meeting were WYP (Wraparound Youth Partner) Andy Ngo, WYP Vicky Tran, WPP (Wraparound Parent Partner) Shannon Ortiz, WCC (Wraparound care Coordinator) Jody Taylor, SSW (Social Services Worker) Stacey Padilla, the youth’s grandfather, the siblings, and the youth. The team went around sharing about the successes and the positives (what is working well), The youth is getting tutoring at school and in the home. The kids are doing their chores. The sisters look up to the youth as a role model. The youth does not have any behavior issue with WYP Ngo. The grandfather was at court on October 12th, 2016 to adopt the kids. The next court date

The case records and interviews indicated the agency did not make a concerted efforts to assess and address risk and safety fully because private home visits were not conducted on a monthly basis with the children, the Assessment of Family Functioning (AFF) assessment was not updated, and the case plan (the only one for this family was on 9/25/15) was not updated after the initial assessment; however, the agency provided safety related services of ongoing referrals to and monitoring of substance abuse treatment services, provided transportation to services, drug screens (12/17/15, 3/04/16, 4/29/16, 7/21/16, 8/24/16, 11/22/16, and 3/03/17), monitoring of mental health treatment, and informally assessed the live-in

Ventura County Behavioral Health is a government based service facility, it gets it’s funding from the state, at a local level and federally. VCBH funding also is provided by Medi-Cal state insurance. In most cases the agency provides mental health services or drug treatment to individuals that are covered by Medi-Cal, those client’s services are billed directly to Medi-Cal (Ventura County Behavioral Health, n.d).

To assess any needs or issues Doe has in his home or day services he can enter his case manager’s office at any time he chooses. Together the case manager and Doe discuss the programs and plans Adele Services has implemented into Does life. The case manager may write down any important issues in the

Rosemont Center is located in Columbus, Ohio. It provides for the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual well being of troubled youth and their families. Rosemont is committed to helping children in need; it is dedicated to healing and renewing youths with a history of trouble and abuse. Rosemont provides the unconditional acceptance, treatment, counseling, education and hope that the youths urgently need to be more productive members of the community. Rosemont had two locations, Rosemont-Bay Saint Louis and Rosemont-Jackson (Swayne, Duncan & Ginter, 2008).

“ CP is trying really hard . She is stuggling because she belives that she only needs residential treatment for 90 days. Her case worker has spoken to her CPS worker and has agreed that the treatment program should decied her lenth of stay in treatment based on her needs. CP 7y is currently having issues with the foster care placement and this is triggering for her. The client struggles with impose control in groups. She likes to share a lot in groups. The treatment team is working with her to creat a more individualized treatment program for her . This plan would give her more one on one tme with her individual case manager to process her feelings.