This document outlines a program called the Disorder Recovery Group for Pregnant Women and Mothers located in Atlantic County, New Jersey. The program aims to reduce stigma surrounding substance use disorders and assist women in finding recovery programs, prenatal care, housing, employment and counseling. It serves pregnant women and mothers over age 16 with substance use disorders. The program goals are to help women enter recovery and gain stability by increasing clients in treatment, obtaining prenatal care, securing housing for homeless clients, and providing counseling to 30 clients annually.
CHAPTER ONE Introduction to Case ManagementSurviving and Thrivin.docxtiffanyd4
CHAPTER ONE Introduction to Case Management
Surviving and Thriving as a Case Manager
Ellen
The agency I work for is located in the northwestern United States. We serve all age ranges. It is a community mental health center. The center has several different campuses across the county. I believe they serve around 18,000 people: children, adults and older adults. And the programs that they offer are quite extensive. They have counseling services, forensic services, housing and rehabilitation, case management, intensive case management, and then different psycho-educational sorts of things they do as a group. I had two positions within the agency. It is not unusual to stay in an agency and assume a new position.
At first I worked for a program that provided extended support and we provided intensive case management to adults and older adults who were chronically mentally ill. So I worked with a lot of folks who had psychotic disorders and anxiety and depression that were living mostly in adult family homes in the community, which are small residential facilities. They have twenty-four–hour care within the homes and so my role as a case manager was to go to those homes a few times a week to do just case management things.The case manager's job is to make sure clients are thriving in their environment, and everyone is safe and healthy.
I worked in that position for about two years and I carried a caseload of between 20 and 30 people at any given time. We spent a lot of time traveling between houses. And then with the shifts in the budget, I transferred to a different position. I worked in one of the adult community support clinics in the south side of the county. At that particular clinic I was a case manager. Most of our clients would come to us. These clients were more capable of managing public transportation in order to make it to appointments, but they were still very much mentally ill. They had other marginalizing sorts of issues: housing issues, financial issues.
· —Permission granted from Ellen Carruth, 2012, text from unpublished interview
In this agency we focus on meeting the needs of individuals and their families. The individuals, our clients, have difficult medical diagnoses and our goal is to allow them to live in their homes. In additional, all of our clients have other needs, reflecting social, educational, financial, and other family concerns. Meeting these multiple needs requires service coordination. We provide services that meet the specific needs of each client. And we involve the client and the families in service delivery. Coordination and integration support the management process. Sometimes professionals working in mental health and developmental disabilities do not understand how to work together to serve a single client. We provide the bridge.
· —Case manager, children's services, New York, NY
The agency I work for helps adolescent females. It would be difficult to describe the average client. Our clients come from var.
CHAPTER ONE Introduction to Case ManagementSurviving and Thrivin.docxtiffanyd4
CHAPTER ONE Introduction to Case Management
Surviving and Thriving as a Case Manager
Ellen
The agency I work for is located in the northwestern United States. We serve all age ranges. It is a community mental health center. The center has several different campuses across the county. I believe they serve around 18,000 people: children, adults and older adults. And the programs that they offer are quite extensive. They have counseling services, forensic services, housing and rehabilitation, case management, intensive case management, and then different psycho-educational sorts of things they do as a group. I had two positions within the agency. It is not unusual to stay in an agency and assume a new position.
At first I worked for a program that provided extended support and we provided intensive case management to adults and older adults who were chronically mentally ill. So I worked with a lot of folks who had psychotic disorders and anxiety and depression that were living mostly in adult family homes in the community, which are small residential facilities. They have twenty-four–hour care within the homes and so my role as a case manager was to go to those homes a few times a week to do just case management things.The case manager's job is to make sure clients are thriving in their environment, and everyone is safe and healthy.
I worked in that position for about two years and I carried a caseload of between 20 and 30 people at any given time. We spent a lot of time traveling between houses. And then with the shifts in the budget, I transferred to a different position. I worked in one of the adult community support clinics in the south side of the county. At that particular clinic I was a case manager. Most of our clients would come to us. These clients were more capable of managing public transportation in order to make it to appointments, but they were still very much mentally ill. They had other marginalizing sorts of issues: housing issues, financial issues.
· —Permission granted from Ellen Carruth, 2012, text from unpublished interview
In this agency we focus on meeting the needs of individuals and their families. The individuals, our clients, have difficult medical diagnoses and our goal is to allow them to live in their homes. In additional, all of our clients have other needs, reflecting social, educational, financial, and other family concerns. Meeting these multiple needs requires service coordination. We provide services that meet the specific needs of each client. And we involve the client and the families in service delivery. Coordination and integration support the management process. Sometimes professionals working in mental health and developmental disabilities do not understand how to work together to serve a single client. We provide the bridge.
· —Case manager, children's services, New York, NY
The agency I work for helps adolescent females. It would be difficult to describe the average client. Our clients come from var.
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Assess each patient’s pain and comfort during each in house hospice visit
Attentively listen and take action on family needs
Continually search for creative ways to enhance your loved one’s quality of life
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to the blog post of three colleagues in one or more of the following ways:
Make a suggestion to your colleague’s post.
Expand on your colleague’s posting.
Peer 1:
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Infinity Hospice follows the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). The NHPCO offers professionals in hospice care a ‘Guide to Organizational Ethics in Hospice Care as a resource to hospice programs and professionals” (NHPCO, 2016). The organization’s core policies are driven by their values and mission statement. Infinity Hospice priority is to enhance their patient’s quality of life and help them live in dignity and comfort. They offer ‘dependability’ to the patient and to their loved one during their time of need for 24/7 care. Infinity Hospice Care’s mission is to bring comfort and value to our community. Our core values guide our team in providing the best family hospice and palliative care possible. If you and your family find balance with our mission and core values, we encourage you to speak to us.
The organizations second core policy is having a trusting team of experts. They have an interdisciplinary team of physicians, nurses, counselors, and volunteers who work together to support each patient and their family. To accomplish this, Infinity Hospice provides the following hospice home services:
Medical care
Pain management needs
Spiritual counseling
Bereavement and grief counseling
Medical supplies and durable equipment
Every two weeks, all professionals from each discipline meet to discuss cases to find solutions for the challenges to the patients care. The third policy is ‘a strong desire to make a difference in the lives of others.’ This organization understands that at times caring for an individual and providing a supportive system to their family will mean going above and beyond care standards to deliver excellence. Infinity Hospice policy is committed to making the patient’s life better through the following actions:
Assess each patient’s pain and comfort during each in house hospice visit
Attentively listen and take action on family needs
Continually search for creative ways to enhance your loved one’s quality of life
Nurture the desire to make a difference in our team’s lives by supporting a healthy work/life balance
Unavoidably in healthcare there are policy implication and barriers that arise in care. Infinity is driven to enrich the lives of those who are at the end-of-life. However, barriers to Medicaid, Medicare and in the state of Nevada, Culinary Health insurance all have their own policies in which patient eligibility often factors into their quality of life. Social workers could greatly improve the effectiveness of policy and service efforts designed.
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For the first time the United States will be sending a team for the PR category. This team is sponsored by the PR Council, the trade association for America public relations Firms.
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2. Disorder Recovery Group
for Pregnant Women and
Mothers
Mission: Our mission is to reduce the stigma surrounding
substance use disorders, especially for pregnant women
and mothers with young children. We will educate women
about substance use disorders. We will assist women in
finding recovery programs, non-judgmental prenatal care,
housing and other government assistance programs, and
employment opportunities. We also will offer counseling to
assist our clients with any mental health issues.
Populations: We will work with any women over the age of
16 that are pregnant and living with a substance use
disorder. We are located in Southern New Jersey in Atlantic
County.
Issues Addressed: Substance use disorder, prenatal care,
homelessness, counseling.
3. Goals and Objectives
Goals: To enable at-risk expectant mothers and mothers of
young children with substance use disorders to enter
recovery and find stability in their lives.
Objectives:
• Providing a measurable increase in clients we help enter
treatment programs within the next year.
• Providing a measurable increase in expectant clients that
we help find obstetric care in the next year.
• Assisting a measurable number of our homeless clients
with finding assistance to get them into a home.
• Providing at least 30 clients with professional counseling
within the next year.
4. Economic, & Social Factors
That Impact Clients
• Different demographics are affected by substance use
disorders differently. Men and women, have significant
differences, which shows there is a need for variation in
recovery approaches.
• Women have unique needs and face gender-specific issues
that our program truly helps with (Riley, 2022).
• Atlantic County, New Jersey, has some of the highest numbers
of individuals with substance use issues in the state. This shows
that there is a great need for a program like the Substance Use
Disorder Recovery Group for Pregnant Women and Mothers
(Department of Human Services, 2019).
• According to the New Jersey Department of Human Services
and the Division of Mental Health and Addiction, In 2019, there
were almost 99,000 clients admitted to treatment programs for
substance use disorders (Department of Human Services,
2019).
• With each passing year, the number of individuals with
5. Culture & Diversity
Even though our organization is only for female clients, we want to
ensure we practice inclusivity. There are ways in which we
accomplish that:
• We discuss the needs of minority groups in our community. Not
talking about diversity leads to the needs of minorities to be
overlooked.
• We have appointed a diversity, equity, and inclusivity ambassador.
This allows our organization to consider more diverse opinions
(Diversio, n.d.).
• There are inherent barriers in society that create challenges for
members from diverse, non-dominant groups. Inclusivity relies
barriers being removed with a careful understanding of what they
are (Diversio, n.d.).
• We must always consider what barriers there are in our organization
and society that keep minority members from reaching their full
potential.
• Overt racism, sexism, ageism, and homophobia, are a few barriers
that people face every day but there are also more subtle barriers that
6. Organizational Theory
Our organization uses the empowerment approach. The
empowerment approach would allow clients to participate in
decision making. Clients and staff at the organization would all be
viewed as equal participants. This approach would decrease
client's feelings of powerlessness.
Work is divided equally between our caseworkers. Each
caseworker has a cap of total clients they work with. They would
be responsible for their own clients. Then, there would be
meetings where any important information would be discussed
among everyone. Clients would also be involved and treated as
partners who are able to make decisions. Managers would be
required to empower staff members.
7. Line Item Budget
Yearly Expenses
Staff Salary and Benefits: $60,000
Staff Training: $3,000
Rent and Utilities: $15,000
Telecommunications: $1,800
Insurance: $600
Marketing: $2,000
Printing/Postage: $1,500
Office Supplies: $2,000
Professional Support: $3,000
Total: $88,900
8. Information Systems
Our nonprofit organization collects data related to all of the funds
that we have collected, about the clients we have served, all
overhead costs, and all budget information.
We will also measure how we are doing fulfilling our objectives,
staff's effectiveness, any complaints against staff members, how
well we are utilizing resources, and so on (Sawhill & Williamson,
2001).
The objectives of our nonprofit are all measurable goals, which
makes seeing how well they are being accomplished easier.
All information that is given from clients to their case managers
is input into our computer systems.
We have staff meetings to discuss any major issues weekly.
We use a computer program to help us organize our data.
9. Evaluation
We hand out surveys to our clients and staff every six months to
see how they all think our organization is doing and if they have
any suggestions for improvements.
We use outcome evaluations to see if our program goals and
outcomes are being accomplished.
We make sure to look at all activities being carried out by
our organizatiion and the impact they have on our clients. To
accomplish this, we use process evaluations. Process evalutions
look at the type and number of activites our organization offers.
For successful evaluations we need all staff to be involved in the
process (Lewis, 2012).
10. Closing Slide
The Substance Use Disorder Recovery Group for Pregnant Women
and Mothers was started in January 2021.
This organization serves Atlantic County, New Jersey and clients from
Cumberland County as well.
Research has found that women who use tobacco, alcohol, or illicit
substances while pregnant pose a significant risk to their unborn
children. There can also be long term health complications for these
children.
Our non-profit organization works with expectant mothers to help
them find medication assisted treatment centers or providers as soon
as possible.
We explain to them the benefits of medication assisted treatment
while pregnant and help them to understand that it is their best option.
We also help these women with other areas of their lives such as
finding prenatal care with a good obstetrician who will not be
judgmental, we help these women apply for food stamps, WIC, and
find housing if needed.
We offer group sessions for women who are interested.
We also can assist expectant mothers and new mothers, who have
entered recovery, with finding employment.
11. References
5 Steps Nonprofits Can Take Today to Create a More Inclusive
Culture. (n.d.). Diversio. https://diversio.com/5-steps-nonprofits-
can-take-today-to-create-a-more-inclusive-
culture/
Lewis, J. A. (2012). Management of human service programs.
(5th ed). Brooks/Cole, Cengage Learning.
Riley, L. (2022). Addiction Treatment for Women in North Jersey.
North
Jersey Recovery Center. https://northjerseyrecovery.com/program
s/rehab-for-women/
Sawhill, J. & Williamson, D. (2001). Measuring what matters in
nonprofits. Mckinsey & Company.
https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/public-and-social-sector/our-
insights/measuring-what-matters-in-nonprofits
Substance Abuse Overview. (2019). Department of Human
Services.
https://www.state.nj.us/humanservices/dmhas/publications/statistic
al/Substance%20Abuse%20Overview/2019/Substance%20Abuse