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1. Has the system of care approach proven to be a better way to help children with serious emotional disturbances and their families? |
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2. I'm looking for an OMH regional office in North Louisiana, where can I find this information? |
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3. What are the components of a System of Care? |
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4. What can you do if you have concerns about someone’s eligibility for Assistive Outpatient Treatment ? |
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5. What does child and family involvement mean? |
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6. What does community-based mean? |
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7. What does cultural compentence mean? |
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8. What does individualized strengths-based care mean? |
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9. What is a System of Care ? |
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10. What is an Evidence Based Practice ? |
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11. What is Assistive Outpatient Treatment ? |
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12. What is Recovery ? |
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13. What is Resiliency ? |
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14. What is System of Care for children and families? |
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15. What is System of Care? |
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16. Where can I get more information about OMH? |
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17. Where is the Office of Mental Health Located? |
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18. Who is eligible for Assistive Outpatient Treatment ? |
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19. Why are community-based services important? |
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| Has the system of care approach proven to be a better way to help children with serious emotional disturbances and their families? | Back to Top |
Yes. While the system of care approach is relatively new here in Louisiana, it has been available in other states long enough to evaluate the results. A recent study of 30 communities in these other states reveal that caregivers were pleased with their child's progress after one year in a system of care. In fact, 75 percent rated services as "good" to "excellent." Many other studies indicate that children in a system of care do better at home, school, and in their community |
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| I'm looking for an OMH regional office in North Louisiana, where can I find this information? | Back to Top |
Contact information for all OMH regional facilities can be found on the home page of this site, or by contacting the OMH state office in Baton Rouge. |
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| What are the components of a System of Care? | Back to Top |
The essential components of a mental health system of care are a single point of reponsibility for the client, coordination with other involved human service agencies and decision making based on an evaluation of outcomes. Other components of systems of care, which are also critical to any responsiv3e mental health system, include meaningful involvement of clients and their families (as appropriate) in treatment planning, client-centered services, cultural competence, age appropriate services, and an array of services focused on ther person's mental health treatment and other supportive services needed to maintain residence in the community. |
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| What can you do if you have concerns about someone’s eligibility for Assistive Outpatient Treatment ? | Back to Top |
Contact the Department of Health and Hospitals, Office of Mental Health designated Assistive Outpatient Treatment Coordinator in the region / district in which the individual resides for assistance. |
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| What does child and family involvement mean? | Back to Top |
Child and family involvement with a System of Care requires mutual respect and partnerships between families and professionals. Families are involved as key stakeholders, whether they are helping tailor the individualized plan of care for their child or helping design, build, or maintain Systems of Care. Families are involved in policy development, care coordination, evaluation, strategic planning, service provision, social marketing, and individual and system advocacy. Families include caretakers, kin, and extended family members. |
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Child and family involvement with a System of Care requires mutual respect and partnerships between families and professionals. Families are involved as key stakeholders, whether they are helping tailor the individualized lan of care for their child or helping design, build, or maintain Systems of Care. Families are involved in policy development, care coordination, evaluation, strategic planning, service provision, social marketing, and individual and system advocacy. Families include caretakers, kin, and extended family members. |
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Cultural competence refers to the way in which services, policies, and agencies reflect the view that the individual's culture, race, and ethnicity as assets to be built upon. Systems of Care have been built on the notion that in order to work effectively with a child and family, there must be an understanding of the family's culture, race, values, and ethnic heritage. By developing a culturally competent system, the likelihood is enhanced that services will have a positive effect on the service outcomes for each child and family. |
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| What does individualized strengths-based care mean? | Back to Top |
Individualized strengths-based care acknowledges each child and family's unique set of strengths and challenges. Formal and informal supports are used to "wrap" services and supports around each child and family (rather than families "fitting in" to preexisting service structures). Issues of culture, gender, age, religious background and class are addressed in the individualized plan of care. The plan changes frequently based on ongoing individualized assessments of strengths and needs,
Plans are created by teams comprised of people who know the child and family, including neighbors, friends, family and professionals in fields including child welfare, mental health, education, substance abuse, and juvenile justice. The major task of the team is to create an individualized plan of care that is community-and strength-based, made up of formal and informal services and supports
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As Defined by Beth A. Stroul, N.Ed. and Robert M. Friedman, Ph.D. in their monograph, "A System of Care for Children and Youth with Severe Emotional Disturbances", a system of care is a comprehensive spectrum of mental health and other necessary services which are organized into a coordinated network to meet the multiple and changing needs of children and adolescents with severe emotional disturbances and their families. |
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mentalhealthpractices.org - An evidence based practice is a clinical intervention which has been consistently shown in several research studies to assist consumers in achieving their desired goals of health and wellness. Evidence based practices exist in almost all areas of medicine and psychiatry. |
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Louisiana’s Law for Assistive Outpatient Treatment (Louisiana ACT 407) allows the director of a hospital, emergency receiving center or Regional / District Mental Health Director to petition the local court for involuntary outpatient treatment of certain individuals meeting the criteria established in law. This court-ordered treatment is called assisted outpatient treatment. This Assistive Outpatient Treatment Law is an important treatment tool that allows individuals, who due to the debilitating effects of their mental illness have a history of non-compliance with treatment, to be court ordered into outpatient treatment without ordering them into more restrictive inpatient care. |
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To clearly define recovery, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration within the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Interagency Committee on Disability Research in partnership with six other Federal agencies convened the National Consensus Conference on Mental Health Recovery and Mental Health Systems Transformation on December 16-17, 2004. The following consensus statement was derived from this conference: Mental Health recovery is a journey of healing and transformation enabling a person with a mental health problem to live a meaningful life in a community of his or her choice while striving to achieve his or her full potential.
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The Resiliency Center - Definitions, Do you know what the verb for resilience is ? We didn't either until we looked it up in the dictionary. The verb for resilience is "resile" (ree-zil), as in "the people best suited for today's world of non-stop change are able to resile." The word resile has existed as a legitimage word for thousands of years. It is derived from the Latin word "resilire", meaning "to leap back." Resilience or Resiliency is the ability to recover quickly from misfortune; able to return to original form after being bent, compressed, or stretched out of shape. A human ability to recover quickly from disruptive change, illness, or misfortune without being overwhelmed or acting in dysfunctional ways. As in "Our team showed great resilience," or "Our team had good resiliency."
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| What is System of Care for children and families? | Back to Top |
A System of Care for children and families is a mental health delivery system of coordinated services and supports from a variety of child-serving agencies that support the family's efforts to help their children with serious emotional disturbance be successful in facing the challenges in many aspects of their lives - at home, in school, in social situations, and in the community. |
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A System of Care is not a program - it is a philosophy of how care should be delivered. System of Care is an approach to services that recognizes the importance of family, school, and community, and seeks to promote the full potential of every child and youth by addressing their physical, emotional, cultural and social needs. |
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| Where can I get more information about OMH? | Back to Top |
For more information, please call (225) 342-2540. |
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| Where is the Office of Mental Health Located? | Back to Top |
The Office of Mental Health's address is: 628 N. 4th Street, 4th Floor, in downtown Baton Rouge. |
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| Who is eligible for Assistive Outpatient Treatment ? | Back to Top |
An individual may be placed in assistive outpatient treatment only if, after a hearing, the court finds that all of the following have been met. The individual must:
1. be eighteen years of age or older,
2. suffer from a mental illness,
3. be unlikely to survive safely in the community without supervision, based on a clinical determination,
4. have a history of lack of compliance with treatment from mental illness that has resulted in either of the following;
a. at least twice within the last thirty-six months, the lack of compliance with mental health treatment has been a significant factor resulting in an emergency certificate for hospitalization or receipt of services in a forensic or other mental health unit within a correctional setting, not including any period during which the person was hospitalized or incarcerated immediately preceding the filing of the petition OR
b. one or more acts of serious violent behavior toward self or others or threats of, or attempts at, serious physical harm to self or others within the last thirty-six months as a result of mental illness , not including any period during which the person was hospitalized or incarcerated immediately preceding the filing of the petition
5. As a result of his or her mental illness, is unlikely to voluntarily participate in the recommended treatment documented in the treatment plan.
6. In view of the individual’s treatment history and current behavior, there is a need for assistive outpatient treatment to prevent a relapse or deterioration which would likely result in the individual becoming dangerous to self or others,
7. It is likely that the individual will benefit from assistive outpatient treatment. |
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| Why are community-based services important? | Back to Top |
There are several reasons why community-based services are important in a system of care:
- Keeping children in their homes, neighborhood schools, and local communities has a positive impact on the well-being of the child and family. Moving, in many cases, may generate unnecessary stress for an already traumatized child.
- By remaining in the community, the child is able to retain critical bonds with friends, family and school.
- When services are community-based, the work done with the child and family is in the context of where the child lives.
- The community (faith-based organizations,nonprofit agencies, neighbors, and other institutions) can offer additional positive/informal supports to the child and family.
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