Agency/Organization Description and Qualifications
Agency Mission and Services Legacy Treatment Services is a nonprofit organization that employs more than 700 employees, and offers services to 13 out of New Jerseys 21 counties (Legacy Treatment Services, 2016). This organization’s mission is: “To change the behavioral health and social service outcomes for people of all ages from surviving to thriving” (Legacy Treatment Services, 2016). Legacy Treatment Services is the result of a 2014 merger between two different agencies: The Drenk Center and The Children’s Home. Since the merge of the two different agencies, Legacy Treatment Services is able to offer crisis intervention, addiction, counseling, housing, educational, youth detention …show more content…
A locked unit is provided for the program, however children are denied access due to the 6 bed unit being occupied by psychotic, intoxicated, violent adults, who are sometimes registered sex offenders. The Screening and Crisis Intervention Program has no choice but to deny children and families access to the unit—that is designed for all individuals in crisis—however sometimes has to bring children on the unit with adults, if they are combative. It may not be very effective to do an evaluation in the middle of the emergency room hallway, when a minor is trying to explain why he or she want to kill him or herself—or something along those lines. There are many distractions; like stated before, victims of homicide are rushed into the ER and sometimes these children or adolescents get distracted with the hospitals environment and cannot focus on their own treatment, or merely feel uncomfortable. Many families complain about sitting in the halls, because they do not want someone to recognize them and notice their blue scrub attire, which signifies that they are actually a SCIP patient and not at the hospital for medical purposes. How can we begin to change behavioral health and social service outcomes for people of all ages from surviving to thriving, if we do not have the ability to provide this population with a safe and private place to discuss the reasons why they no longer want to live, their thoughts about ending someone’s life, or destroying property? What we tend to see, due to this negligence is high recidivism rates or an increasing amount of suicide attempts and completion. Michael Ungar’s (2010) article, described how advocating for the mental health resources is vital for encouraging resilience, and how we have to equip families with the ability and capability to develop coping
Agency Mission and Services Legacy Treatment Services is a nonprofit organization that employs more than 700 employees, and offers services to 13 out of New Jerseys 21 counties (Legacy Treatment Services, 2016). This organization’s mission is: “To change the behavioral health and social service outcomes for people of all ages from surviving to thriving” (Legacy Treatment Services, 2016). Legacy Treatment Services is the result of a 2014 merger between two different agencies: The Drenk Center and The Children’s Home. Since the merge of the two different agencies, Legacy Treatment Services is able to offer crisis intervention, addiction, counseling, housing, educational, youth detention …show more content…
A locked unit is provided for the program, however children are denied access due to the 6 bed unit being occupied by psychotic, intoxicated, violent adults, who are sometimes registered sex offenders. The Screening and Crisis Intervention Program has no choice but to deny children and families access to the unit—that is designed for all individuals in crisis—however sometimes has to bring children on the unit with adults, if they are combative. It may not be very effective to do an evaluation in the middle of the emergency room hallway, when a minor is trying to explain why he or she want to kill him or herself—or something along those lines. There are many distractions; like stated before, victims of homicide are rushed into the ER and sometimes these children or adolescents get distracted with the hospitals environment and cannot focus on their own treatment, or merely feel uncomfortable. Many families complain about sitting in the halls, because they do not want someone to recognize them and notice their blue scrub attire, which signifies that they are actually a SCIP patient and not at the hospital for medical purposes. How can we begin to change behavioral health and social service outcomes for people of all ages from surviving to thriving, if we do not have the ability to provide this population with a safe and private place to discuss the reasons why they no longer want to live, their thoughts about ending someone’s life, or destroying property? What we tend to see, due to this negligence is high recidivism rates or an increasing amount of suicide attempts and completion. Michael Ungar’s (2010) article, described how advocating for the mental health resources is vital for encouraging resilience, and how we have to equip families with the ability and capability to develop coping