Empowerment Approach to Human Services Management
Laura Rubio
BSHS/425
August 28, 2016
Gina Harper
Empowerment Approach to Human Services Management
Children’s Miracle Facility
A dream human service agency in the Orient area, would be Children’s Miracle Facility, it is a mental health facility that is easily accessible to clients and their families. People all over Adair County would be able to access services and be able to get the help that they need.
Children’s Miracle Facility is located in Orient, IA and it is a one stop shop to mental health and support to children with mental health issues and also for their families. It open 24 hours a day and 7 days a week.
Services available through Children’s Miracle Facility:
The services that are provided for children include providing support and intervention for children who suffer from any mental health issue. Those services include: Assessment, and diagnosis/psychological evaluation, individual/family counseling, case management, parent education groups/individualized parent skills coaching, children’s skill building groups, school consultation and advocacy, medication services and education groups, distribution and examination with immediate care physician, and cross cultural services. Adolescent’s counseling, this is a program that administers mental health services to families with children that range in the age group of 6 to 18 that are experiencing behavioral and emotional difficulties. These assistances consist of assessments and evaluations, family, personal and group counseling, guardian educational groups; children’s social skills groups, school consultation along with advocacy, and medication services when needed. The home based services that are included: home based counseling services gives an in-depth, in-home clinical program concentrated on decreasing the possibility of out-of-home placement and psychiatric hospitalization for the youth. These assistances that are...