Community Resource Exploration

Community Resource Exploration

Program 1: Family Service Agency Phoenix

Website Link: https://fsaphoenix.org/

1. Service summary

It is one of Arizona’s oldest social service programs. Its goal is to provide services that call for reinforcement and maintaining the individual and the family. It is an outpatient health clinic that offers specialized and comprehensive care in individual and group treatment. They also guide a tool to improve financial, interpersonal, marital, or social change issues. Psychological assessments, drug monitoring, and follow-up services are also offered. Substance Abuse Treatment Program is also available, offering holistic treatment that meets the client’s social and emotional needs. Employment Resource Services are as well offered.

2. The population targeted, and people served by the program

They are an outpatient behavioral health facility that provides general and intensive treatment services. Their outpatient treatment comprises one to one engagements or group sessions with one of their certified and well-trained health practitioners. They treat children who are six years and above, adolescents and adults. Their staff helps evaluate the next best steps for the clients when they receive the client’s review. Once a patient contacts them, a preliminary assessment is arranged to go through the client’s issues with them, then clinical staff modifies a treatment plan to best suit the patient’s needs. This may comprise medications, talk sessions, nutrition treatments, and group psychoanalysis.

3. The positive results of the program

The health program has achieved measurable results, such as refining access to treatment and health results (Engberg, J. et al., 2012). It has improved the health and well-being of the most at-risk children, families, and grownups in the society by guaranteeing access to food, housing, and other basic needs, and by offering youth mentoring, support, and health programs.

4. Challenges for execution.

One of the program’s challenges is to keep the community engaged. Regardless of the environment and communities that are addressed in the program activities, there needs to be knowledge of health issues, and individual and organizational contributions are required to make the necessary modifications to handle those issues (Yeung, A. et al., 2016). Language is another challenge. Countryside health services may target neighborhoods with a large population of Hispanics or immigrants.

Reference

Engberg, J., Scharf, D., Lovejoy, S., Yu, H., & Tharp-Taylor, S. (2012). Health Context, Programming, and Health Outcomes. An Evaluation of the Arkansas Tobacco Settlement Program: Progress Through 2011 (pp. 21-58). RAND Corporation. Retrieved January 6, 2020, from www.jstor.org/stable/10.7249/j.ctt3fh0v5.11

Yeung, A., Craven, R., Mooney, M., Tracey, D., Barker, K., Power, A., . . . Lewis, T. (2016). Positive Behavior Interventions: The Issue of Sustainability of Positive Effects. Educational Psychology Review, 28(1), 145-170. Retrieved January 6, 2020, from www.jstor.org/stable/24761222

Type of Service or Program 2: National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Arizona

• Link: http://www.namiarizona.org/

1. Summary of the services provided or how the program works.

NAMI Arizona is a popular statewide organization devoted to serving individuals and families affected by mental illness to improve their quality of life and achieve recovery. The goal is to facilitate a better understanding of mental illness, increase coping skills, and empower participants to become advocates for their family members. According to them, educating the community about mental illness is the key to ending the stigma that is attached to it (Jeffery, L. (2011)). The services offered by NAMI include NAMI family to family, NAMI peer to pee, NAMI basics, NAMI family support group, NAMI connection, NAMI in our voice, and NAMI ending the silence.

2. Describe the target population and how many people are served by the service or program

NAMI family to family is a class for families, partners, and friends of individuals with mental illness. NAMI Connection is a weekly recovery support group for people living with mental illness in which people learn from each other’s’ experiences, share coping strategies, and offer each other encouragement and understanding. In Our, Voice is a unique public education program developed by NAMI, in which two trained consumer speakers share compelling personal stories about living with mental illness and achieving recovery. NAMI basics are a class for parents and caregivers of children and adolescents living with mental illness.

3. Explain the positive outcomes of the program

The program is useful for enhancing the coping and empowerment of families of persons with mental illness. Other benefits are improved emotion coping abilities, which result in reduced distress and improved problem-solving.

4. Explain challenges for implementation

There is a range of different issues and challenges that need to be addressed for successful program implementation. Among the challenges is resources and sustainability (Van Nijnatten, C. (2010)). Funding, technological, and human resources are typically limited in rural communities. It can be particularly challenging to generate enough start-up funds to sustain the program as it begins. Another challenge is hard to reach populations. The priority population may be highly mobile.

Reference

Jeffery, L. (2011). Service users as co-producers of services. Understanding agency: Social welfare and change (pp. 53-74). Bristol, UK; Portland, OR, USA: Bristol University Press. doi:10.2307/j.ctt1t896pz.9

Van Nijnatten, C. (2010). Human agency and social context. In Children’s agency, children’s welfare: A dialogical approach to child development, policy, and practice (pp. 51-70). Bristol, UK; Portland, OR, USA: Bristol University Press. Retrieved January 6, 2020, from www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt9qgkkm.8