The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #99746 Message #1993765
Posted By: Bobert
11-Mar-07 - 07:07 PM
Thread Name: BS: Poverty in the USA
Subject: RE: BS: Poverty in the USA
Good point, GUEST, but yer "in theory" is the operative term here...
Yeah, If I could be with 50 clients every day to be sure they stayed on their meds we certainly would have had a higher successs rate... Problem is that wasn't and still isn't possible...
One thing that could help would be more money for "adult day care" where folks, as part of a condition for being on the street, would have to check in daily and perhaps these programs could administer the meds, mush the way a nurse might administer drugs in a hospital setting...
BTW, and I'm not too why this hasn't been brought up by anyone, but out local departments of mental health have also undergone cuts in funding...
And, BTW, part 2.... As much as I hate to bring this up and perhaps it has changed somewhat and I will defer to Janie on that but when I was a socail worker there wasn't a ltta love between the folks in Social Services and Mental Health... Oh sure, we were cordial and went to some of the same training session but when it came down to clients the folks I worked with tried to get the mental health folks more involved and vice versa... Bottom line, a loot of clients were like ping-pong balls between the two agencies...
Janie??? How's it in yer parts these days???
Bobert