Assignment 6500
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SOCW 6500: Social Work Field Education I
Cumberland county health department
Agency presentation
De’vaka newton
Cumberland county health department
Mission
Purpose
Goals
CMARC care management is to improve the health of your child by linking you to effective and efficient services that will meet the needs of your child and family.
CMARC purpose is for eligible children birth – 5 years old who have developmental, behavioral, or emotional problems and who: Have long-term
To provide high quality service in a professional, efficient, and fiscally responsible manner while improving the health of Cumberland County
Population Served
Children with special health care needs
Children that were in neonatal intensive care unit (NICU)
Children exposed to adverse childhood experiences that could result in unmanageable stress, including, but not limited to:
Domestic/ family violence
Caregiver unable to meet infant’s health and safety needs/neglect
Parent(s) has history of parental rights termination
Parental/caregiver substance abuse, neonatal exposure to substances
Unstable home
Unsafe where child lives Repeated exposure to violence in the community or within the family
Parent/guardian suffers from depression or other mental health condition
Homeless or living in a shelter
Clients/Demographics/Served Annually
Services / Programs
Assessment or screening to identify needs and concerns
Assistance setting and meeting goals addressing prioritized needs and concerns
Parent/caregiver education related to needs or concerns
Support in identifying and addressing obstacles that prevent the family to reach goals
Education and strategies to reduce the impact of adverse childhood events
Linkage to a medical home
Linkage and referral of children and families to needed community programs and supports
Coordination of the child’s care to ensure appropriate medical care, social services and other supports are obtained to increase the quality of care and decrease the quality of care and decrease the cost
Funding sources
The funding source for Cumberland county health department is through the state and division of public health. Cumberland county health department receives $50,573.00 a year with payment periods for those who don’t have Medicaid.
Cumberland health department is a public entity
The designation of the organization provides services in each county.
organizational structure
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Cumberland county health department
Service delivery of clients needs
Home
Child’s medical home
Community location
Phone, if specific face –to-face contacts
Learning Plans/Contracts
Doctor, wic and food stamp appointments
Process for evaluating client/organizational outcomes
Children are referred to or identified for service programs
Assessments are performed by social worker and mother/guardian or appointed caregiver
Care plans are created that describe the needs identified from the assessment
Each should have a minimum of one need of all engaged children
Establish a care goal based on the needs of the client/patient
Start date that corresponds with the date the need was identified
Needs can only be closed if patient/client lost contact, deceased, or declined.
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Strengths/weakness
Strengths
Children are provided proper services
Care goals
Link family to a medical home, community resources
Educational information
Team support for each child/family advocating
Weakness
Not being able to help each child due to services being declined
Community analysis
Cmarc are apart of the following committee’s:
Soar (strength in overcoming adversity thru resiliency)
Collaborative committee
Sandhills autism
Abcd (assuring better child health and development)
Fostering health
Head start advisory
Homeless care review
Colors (children’s organizations linking opportunities)
Resources and support
Safety spirit team
Societal analysis
One emerging societal trend
Plan of safe care
Social work practice is shaped starting with:
Hospitals
Department of social service (DSS)
CMARC
Questions
