Article by Linda Rosenberg
Over the past 20 years, particularly since the introduction of the system of care philosophy and practices, there were tensions between the community and outpatient treatment provider, that serve young children and families need psychological support. Community mental health than their counterparts expressed hospitalized children occupied for too long and not to demonstrate the effectiveness of their services. Treatment providers in hospitals reported that their colleagues do not support their community efforts together, helping to plan the discharge, or provide service options that intensive follow-up. Families and young people often have to create different views and reactions of the two sets of mental health services for printing and demanded that all suppliers are driven more young people and families and encourage them to create a range of more integrated services.
In this climate, the more complex systems that competition for limited resources, a group of housing and
community-based mental health As part of this dialogue, a group of leaders in the field of mental health of children in bridge construction peak in June 2006 first. Inspired by young voices mandatory and the family, the summit participants drafted and signed a joint resolution of common principles and a shared commitment to a comprehensive, flexible, individualized, strengths-based, family and headed by engine young series of culturally and linguistically competent services and support. More than 20 national organizations and 19 mental health agencies have been approved by the joint resolution. Building Bridges calls for the restructuring of relations between home and community mental health treatment providers of health, families and youth. The paradigm promotes shared responsibility and a shared commitment, regardless of the treatment or service must be set. Therefore, after the summit activities include the identification of treatment programs in hospitals and communities across the country that the implementation of innovative practices in accordance with the principles of the joint resolution are, and seek input families and youth about what they effective practices.
promising practices adopted by Building Bridges, the use of child soldiers and families team is essential. Teams with an all-out process, treatment planning and service delivery is a sense of purpose and accountability. CFT and the expertise of hospital treatment and community providers to benefit from the strengths of youth and families as part of a long-term recovery plan focused on.
The residential programs and their community partners in the nation are improving their efforts to ensure that treatment is driven by a young family and supported by the implementation of practices such as construction of bridges on CFT, rents Family and youth ensembles, youth development and family councils to provide advisory and training support to increase self-advocacy, the integration of competence cultural and linguistic. and implementation of trauma informed care, recognizing the need for restraint and seclusion
lawyers and politicians that the hospital is part of the range of services and coordination and cooperation are essential . to improve performance
Here are some possibilities care providers, community and hospital are able to support the work of building bridges:
> business relationship building and dialogue among all constituent groups including families, youth, community psychiatric services, residential treatment providers, lawyers and politicians.
> Develop protocols and procedures for admission to hospital and rehabilitation in the community a transparent manner by support and coordination. Target> Supporting young people and families during their time in treatment programs in hospitals with the participation of “a” _new “rel = = href =”http://www.thenationalcouncil.org/cs/_overview”" http://www.thenationalcouncil. Org / cs / _overview “> Community Mental Health programs and support services to ensure timely and smooth transition at home. > Continue to implement trauma informed, the family led, youth guided, culturally and linguistically competent and evidence-based practice. > support the development and active members of the child and family teams. > Convening of meetings and conversations among the constituencies to facilitate dialogue to build bridges. In September 2007, a second summit strengthened the initiative and establish a program of reform across the country to promote. Several working groups were created and several products were developed and are under development: A paper on innovative best practices in linking community and hospital services, a range of services, guidelines and indicators, a tool self-assessment for stationary and community treatment providers, family and “tip sheets” for young people, and research to identify fiscal and political reforms. It is planned to continue the important work of this initiative and the principles of the Building Bridges at the national level. Working together as partners, we can ensure that children thrive, young people and families.