Family Resources Centers

The Family Resource Center 19 Cedarview Street Salem, MA 01970 www.familyrc.com... 

III. Formal connections with community mh services— Increasingly, schools have developed connections with community agencies, often as the result of the school-based health center movement, school-linked services initiatives (e.g., full-service schools, family resource centers), and efforts to develop systems of care (e.g., wraparound services for those in special education). Four formats have emerged ... 

Designation of a mental health coordinator is a crucial first step in the formulation of a team. This is the person who will manage the command center, decide what resources are needed, activate appropriate mental health agencies, and assign staff to locations such as neighborhood centers. Red Cross shelters (when requested), family assistance centers, schools, hospitals, and so on. This person also monitors field reports regarding the ongoing needs of victims, workers, and counselors, and adapts the plan as events unfold. 

U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Disability Preparedness Resource Center. This disability preparedness Web site provides practical information on how people with and without disabilities can prepare for an emergency. It also provides information for family members and service providers for persons with disabilities. Visit http //www.disabilitypreparedness.gov/. 

Weisman, D. 1998 Fast Fact 16 Conducting a Family Meeting. End-of-Life Physician Education Resource Center www.eperc.mcw.edu... 

More members of the dysbindin protein family are known in humans than in any other species at present. In articular, there are eight human proteins with dysbindin domains listed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI http //www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/) and/or by the Universal Protein Resource (UniProt http //www.pir.uniprot.org/index.shtml). They are schematically shown in Figure 2.2-1, which... 

The therapist can help the family and caregivers find snch essential and concise how-to snrvival gnides as this special report (Kahn et ah, 1998) and many other resonrces available throngh the Internet. One very helpful website, www.alzheimers.org, is that of the ADEAR (Alzheimer s Disease Education and Referral) Center, a service of the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The website of the Alzheimer s Disease and Related Disorders Association, Inc., www.alz.org, also provides resources and information for patients, families, and caregivers. 

We advised clients to remain close to supportive family members and friends, structure their time so that they were not overly busy or unoccupied, avoid alcohol and drugs (unless prescribed by their health care provider), and avoid making any sudden, major life changes. Most clients were seen only once, although some did return for additional information. Consequently, the resources available to the client gauged the outcome evaluation piece before and after their visit (s) to the service center. Our priorities were to assess and refer. 

The remaining are the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, the Indian Health Service, the Health Resources and Services Administration, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Health Care Financing Administration, the Administration for Children and Families, and the Administration on Aging. 

Fig. 1 The hospice interdisciplinary team. The patient, primary caregiver, and family are the focus of the hospice team s efforts in collaboration with the patient s primary physician. The core team is represented by the next circle away from the center. The support team is indicated by the outer circle. Community resources that support hospice care are listed outside that circle. Pharmacists serve on both the core team (second circle from the center) by providing direct pharmaceutical care to patients and families, and on the support level (next circle out from the center) by providing professional and public education about drug therapy in the care of terminally ill patients. (From Lipman AG, Berry JI. Pharmaceutical care of terminally ill patients. Journal of Pharmaceutical Care Pain and Symptom Control 1996 3(2) 31-56.)...

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School-based health centers are uniquely positioned to provide services to students who are most in need. Most sbhcs are established in low-income communities with inadequate health care resources and many unmet health care needs. This is reflected in a 1998-1999 survey of sbhcs nationally two-thirds of the population served by the centers were members of a minority group (National Assembly on School-Based Health Care, 2000). Studies of children with special health care needs reveal that those who face the most serious problems in accessing health care are children who live at or below the federal poverty line, live in single-parent families, are uninsured, are older children and teens, or members of a racial or ethnic minority group, sbhcs are designed to provide easily accessible health care services to this population. 

I thank my wife (Amber), children (Kylee, Jackson, Nathan, Tyler, Shannon), parents (Carole, Bob), and family (Anne, Bette, Dana, Dixie, Kara, Leah, Stan) for their love and support. My work on this book was supported by cooperative agreement U93MC00174 from the Office of Adolescent Health, Maternal and Child Health Bureau (Title V, Social Security Act), Health Resources and Services Administration, with co-funding by the Center for Mental Health Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. (PHS413) MDW... 

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