Our youth need our support — a community that will help them navigate social, familial and educational pressures, assist them in beating addiction or eating disorders, and prevent suicide or self mutilation, and decrease symptoms of anxiety, depression and mania. Children’s Health and Wellness Center is that support resource. We Provide a variety of long term and short term resources and support for children and Families. We are very willing and excited about the opportunity to serve in the Dane County Network Model with underserved populations. Our clinical services are based on the needs of underserved communities in Dane county . According to Children.WI.Gov, Children of color and those living in rural areas already experience significant disparities in mental health that are exacerbated by a shortage of mental health professionals. Our new locations for Childrens Health and Wellness centers will be in rural Dane County located at 1100 Frank St Waunakee , WI.
We also already have a complete approved application for Sankofa Recovery with CCS( Comprehensive Community Services ) we are just waiting on our accounting engagement letter to forward on so that we can receive our contract .
Our target population to expand services in the Dane County Area are Children between the ages of 8-18. The Research Based practice models that we will utilize for treatment are the following : Ecological Addressing Models , special play , Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, motivational interviewing , emotion coaching , scripted stories , Interpersonal Therapy, Exposure Therapy, Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, risk assessments, psychosocial assessments, counseling, cognitive behavioral therapy, motivational interviewing, creative arts therapy, and experiential therapy.
Our therapy modalities reflect the background and culture of our clients . We honor cultural differences and realize that expression and symptoms of some mental health disorders in people of color may be slightly different than those of the majority culture.
Our Clinical Program Goals & Outcomes :
- To provide a safe, supportive and comfortable environment for every child
- Decrease the amount of days that children spend in inpatient facilities away from their families
- Increase parental involvement , input and understanding of the barriers their children face and the supports they need
- Reduce dropout, suspension, expulsion rates
- Increase graduation rates
- Improve student-peer relations; self-regulation in community settings
- Teach children to understand their needs , self reflect self regulation skills , their mood changes and triggers and ways to problem solve
We have 8 peer support specialist that will be part of our support and recovery teams offering peer support to people receiving services related to mental health and/or substance use challenges. Our recovery teams consist of licensed clinicians , nurses and psychiatrists with certified peer specialists . Part of our culturally responsive service model is to provide certified peer specialists who has their own lived experience of mental health and/or substance use challenges and has completed formal training and certification in the peer specialist model of mental health and substance use-oriented peer support. Peer Specialists working in a clearly defined role and collaborating in a complementary fashion as part of our agency’s team support structure. Peer specialist offer the following services :
- Cultivate empowering and supportive relationships
- Use self-disclosure in order to deepen connection and inspire hope
- Draw on their own lived experience as a valuable source of empathy
- Provide information about community and recovery-oriented resources upon request
- Serve a critical role in the systemic rethinking of responses to people in crisis
- Value self-determination as a guiding ethical principle
- Facilitate person-centered goal setting
- Communicate effectively with their peers, other team members, and clinicians
- Seek to understand the roles culture, power, and privilege play in their peers’ lives
- Practice trauma-informed approaches in their peer relationships and work places
- Support many pathways to recovery, wellness, and meaningful living
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