Kent Sussex Community Services Case Study

Their Level of Care are Partial Hospitalization / Day Treatment and Outpatient Methadone/Buprenorphine or Vivitrol Their Payment Method is Access to Recovery (ATR) Voucher. Financial Assistance is Sliding Fee Scales.

2-A Kent State sophomore Merle Thieleman was elected to Kent City Council after a special election on Tuesday. The nineteen-year-old said he received support from his fellow students and hopes to get more young people involved in local government. 2-B An elderly woman was found holding a bloody shovel while standing over a dead fawn in her yard in Fairview Park Tuesday afternoon. She told police the baby deer was eating her flowers, but wouldn’t leave when she tried to chase it away.

Client report substance abuse problem. Client housing option is projected reconnect and ticket assistance. Client reported she cannot return to Columbia due to Columbia Guerillas. Another housing alternative is Nursing

Mary MacKillop’s organisation was formed to help disability support service, it was to teach people educational, social and living skills training program. It is for people who have mental disabilities/illness, who are in boarding houses and group homes which is located inner West of Sydney. Mary cared for all people that had no families, boys and girls that roamed the streets. She also cared for the people that were un-educated, people who were sick and old and had nowhere to live. Mary wanted more than anything to help these people.

BaptistCare operate more than 160 facilities and programs across NSW and the ACT to serve the aged, the disadvantaged and the disabled. The organisation was founded in 1944 as the NSW Baptist Home Trust to serve the needs of the most vulnerable and isolated members of society, and since then has grown progressively and significantly across NSW and ACT. The journey to today’s BaptistCare from its humble beginning in 1944 reached Baptist Community Services (BCS) in 1986. In 2014, BCS renewed its commitment to deliver care and services to a diverse group of clients with the primary target groups being older people and their carers, people living with disadvantage and distress, and marginalized people requiring housing and support.

Their Level of Care is Partial Hospitalization / Day Treatment and Outpatient Methadone/Buprenorphine or Vivitrol Their Payment Methods are State Insurance (Other than Medicaid) and Access to Recovery (ATR) Voucher.

If the patient has a history of mental illness, dual diagnosis treatment can be added to the treatment menu. Treatment includes counseling (group and individual), holistic therapy and a variety of alternative treatment methods like music or recreational therapy. Services are provided by caring, licensed staff with experience in both drug and alcohol treatment. Patient fees are calculated on an income-based sliding scale. The payment option menu includes loan financing, cash, credit card, Medicaid, Medicare and most types of private

A plan is filled out and signed by the client, the family member responsible for the client, the therapist and the nurse (Appendix F). A client must remain sober on home passes and when they return, clients deemed “at risk of substance abuse” will have a urine analysis. In addition, clients will have belongings searched for contraband, such as alcohol or cigarettes (Appendix G). Johnny was also provided with a “readiness to change assessment at intake, midway through treatment and nearing discharge (Appendix H). The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 was also pertinent to this case due to the need for client confidentiality (Appendix I).

In 2014, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services

Introduction For the purpose of this paper, my client will be named Leah. The agency 's mission is to render the highest quality care to its residents. Leah was referred to Andover and Subacute Rehab Center by her previous residency. Her family was unable to prevent her from begging in the community and abusing heroin. The agencies’ role is to restore its residents to their maximum potential.

Indirect Community Services Center for adults with problem eating (C.A.P.E) is a community center where we aim to serve the needs of individuals looking to lead a healthier lifestyle. We provide services for individuals such as individual counseling, individual meetings with nutritionists and also with personal fitness trainers. C.A.P.E. acknowledges that individuals live and participate within many different systems in their lives, some or all of which can have an effect on their psychological and physical health. Our center addresses aspects of the systems that our individual clients are part of.

Community work is an essential part of social work. It has been defined as “the process of assisting people to improve their own communities by undertaking autonomous collective actions. ”(Twelvetrees, 2001) It entails getting the support of communities members to undertake projects or tasks that would be beneficial for the community. In community work, workers “operate as facilitators with people in relation to what those people decide to become involved with.

5. Community Health Needs Assessment: This is taken from module 5.2 of public health nursing in block 2. Community health needs assessment is a systematic process of knowing and exploring a defined community for assessing its health status and determining possible factors affecting the health of people. Book Author: Gulani (2005) The process involve the following - describing the state of health of local people, the identification of the major risk factors and causes of ill health; and the identification of the actions needed to address the risk factors.

1. Introduction Community social work has a long history whereas it is the earliest method in social work practice. In accordance with the ecological system theory (Bronfenbrenner, 1979), there is an interrelationship between the society and the individuals. Given that the correlation, there is a crucial need in pursuing “person-environmental-fit”. According to Pavelová (2014), the assistance of communities should be placed at the center in the practice with the aim to seek improvement.

Introduction: What is a community? “A community is a group of people living in the same area or having some specific characteristics in common” (Kinney,2003). Examples of the common characteristics are having the same interest, religion, race, etc. “There are different types of communities that are classified by a purpose. The different types are interest, action, place, practice, and circumstance.