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Explore Good Shepherd Youth Services' Community Mental Health Program, addressing street involvement and mental health issues while introducing the Skills for Life program.
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GOOD SHEPHERD YOUTH SERVICES COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAM Skills for Life Christine Evans & Chloe Frisina Mental Health Clinicians, Good Shepherd Youth Services Good Shepherd Faith in People
OBJECTIVES • Explain the Community Mental Health Program • Discuss current literature addressing street involvement, mental health & global functioning • Introduce the Skills for Life program
COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAMBACKGROUND • MCYS funded • Started 7 years ago • Has grown with the growth of SYPC • 1.6 Master’s prepared clinicians • Based at Notre Dame House
COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAMPURPOSE • A community based mental health outreach program for street involved and homeless youth ages 16-21 • Aims to improve access to mental health services • Aims to increase percentage of youth in active treatment • Aims to improve global functioning of youth
COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAM WHAT WE OFFER • Triage and Assessment • Comprehensive Mental Health Assessment (including a Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths Assessment) • Individual Therapy • Staff Education/Coaching • Skills for Life • Collaboration with the Shelter Health Network and Consulting Adolescent Psychiatrists
COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAM EVALUATION – STREET INVOLVEMENT • Street involved youth includes runaways (youth who have spent more than one night away from home without parental permission), throwaways (youth who have been forced to leave home by their parents), street youth (youth who live in high risk nontraditional locations such as under bridges and in abandoned buildings) and system youth (youth who have previously been involved in government systems such as foster care or juvenile justice). Edidin et al. 2011
COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAM EVALUATION – MENTAL HEALTH • Mental illness refers to clinically significant patterns of behavioral or emotional functioning that are associated with some level of distress, suffering (pain, death) or impairment in one or more areas of functioning (such as school, work or social and family interactions). Canadian Psychological Association, 2012
COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAMEVALUATION – GLOBAL FUNCTIONING • Global functioning refers to the adequacy of a youth’s sleep and eating patterns, their physical health and participation in activities of daily living, limited criminal involvement, substance use, high-risk behaviors and a reduction in mental health problems.
COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAMFRAMEWORK • Mindfulness • The 3 C’s • Calm • Consistent • Clutter Free
COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAM FRAMEWORK • Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
Teen Routine • PLEASE • Sleep Hygiene • Distractions • Self Soothing • TIP • 3 Things • Radical Acceptance • Ride the Way • Behavior Chain Analysis • Pros & Cons • DEARMAN • Building Positivity
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