Study Visits in Los Angeles on Youth Mental Health Oct.,2006 Service Implication in Hong Kong Wong Chi Hung

Service Model Wrap Around Model stabilized the children, family in the community service provided to individual, group and family by a team of professionals including psychiatrist, LCSW, MFT, psychologist System of Cares home-based programme, focus on home-living prevent the removal of children from their home involve case manager, parent advocate, therapist

Service Model Contiuum of Care base on the severity of the problem of the consumers to provide different level of care Outpatient > Intensive Outpatient > Intensive Day Treatment > Hospital Preventive service develop early identification service for aged 0-5 develop assessment tools

Practice environment Participation of Prosumers employ the ex-consumer to be staffs involve the prosumers in leading the self-help group with close and intensive supervision by social workers acknowledge their experience and knowledge Caseload of the social workers Caseload is much fewer than HK School-based service 3:8 Intensive Day Treatment 1:10+

Practice environment Multi-discipline Collaboration not only focus on bio-medical model involve different professional views on the treatment plan clear roles among the professionals (LCSW, case managers, psychiatrist) Single point of responsibility treatment Involves different professionals the case managers to gather the progress and information among different professionals

Practice environment Service Development – new ideas to Government Agency develop new working model and propose to the County / Funding source The funding source provide the resources to that Agency to start new projects Funding restrictions Funding sources allow the agency to develop project with collaborated resources