1. Presentation to Mental Health Board January 14, 2013 Eva Lomeli, LCSW
Mental Health Connections at APS Pilot Project: February 6 – June 30, 2012
Presentation to Mental Health Board
January 14, 2013
Eva Lomeli, LCSW

2. Collaboration between Department of Mental Health and Department of Social Services at APS
Referral Process: APS
*Multiple consults
Linkage for Clients already in the system

3. 29 Clients Received Interventions
Some engagement efforts
Others regular contacts
And crisis interventions.
Some Clients had more than 15 face to face contacts and countless collateral contacts.

4. 29 Clients Received Interventions
8 Clients with SMI:
5 with Bipolar I with Psychosis
1 Anxiety DO and Hoarding
1 Anxiety DO, Dependent Personality DO and to r/o Developmental delay
1 diagnosed with Schizophrenia
7 OA caregivers living with Individuals with SMI who were refusing M.H. Treatment
1 Care recipient with late Onset Psychosis
1 OA family member caregiver with Bipolar II and caregiver burnout
5 Care recipients with Bipolar
I DO with paranoia and psychosis or Schizoaffective Bipolar Type
3 Individuals in their 60’s with late onset Psychosis
All three educated professionals with long work history and no history of Mental Illness. All lacked insight about their psychosis and refused mental health treatment.
Theme: Electromagnetic fields and biosynthetic engineering

5. 29 Clients Received Interventions (continue)
5 Clients with Dementia based Paranoia or psychosis:
2 Clients with severe Axis II Borderline Personality Disorder
2 Clients with housing and financial stressors
1 Client with APS financial abuse
1 Client with severe life losses related to medical condition

6. Client demographics: Age 4 Clients under 50 8 Clients in their 60’s
Language:
28 Primarily English speaking Clients
Ethnicity:
20 Caucasian Clients
5 Hispanic Clients
2 Middle Eastern Clients
1 African American Client
1 Greek Client
Insurance type:
8 Medical
7 Medicare only
10 Kaiser or HMO
1 Private pay
1 uninsured
2 unknown
Housing:
14 Home owners
11 Renters
3 in subsidized housing
1 Homeless
6 Clients at risk of losing, or lost housing:
3 due to SMI,
1 due to Dementia,
1 due to financial abuse,
1 due to financial stressors
(Cal fresh access barrier for SSI recipients)

7. Treatment barriers and challenges
Medicare only Client’s and lack of access to needed resources:
81 yo female Bed bound. No access to IHSS, as a result, with abusive caregiver.
70 yo male legally blind and with hoarding problem. No access to IHSS
83 yo female completely isolated with deteriorating health with no access to On Lok services. Also evicted due raise in housing cost. 400 sq ft studio rent $1,159.00, SDI income $1, mo.
Clients with SMI refusing treatment:
Stigma about mental illness
Client’s right to self determination
Possible liability issues: Providing Crisis Intervention to Ct’s who are refusing services but need them

8. Recommendations
Expand services to this underserved, unreached Client population
Create a service team or have APS M.H. provider working out of a service team