Being a Change Agent: 5th Annual Training Institute

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Being a Change Agent 5th Annual Training
Institute

• Vicki McGahee
• South Carolina DMH
• CRCF PASARR Coordinator

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Olmstead Initiative

• Vouchers to assist consumers in moving into the
  community
• Secondary goal assist consumers to move within
  the community to a less restrictive environment

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Olmstead Committee

• Olmstead Coordinator, Chair
• Psychiatric Hospital Adult
• Residential Treatment Facility Adol.
• Community Mental Health Center
• Deaf Services
• Consumer Affairs Coordinator
• Housing Homeless Program
• Child Family Services
• Office of Medical Director
• Non-profit Consumer Advocacy Agency

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Application Process

• Identifying info
• Pending residence
• Income to sustain residence
• Description of financial need
• Justification

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2003 - 2004

• Four inpatient facilities 13 CMHCs
• Assisted 63 consumers
• 23 inpatient
• 40 community

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Hospital to Community

• CRCF 9
• Apartment 7
• Shelter 6
• Residential Rehab 1

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Less Restrictive House Within Community

• Substandard home to own home/apt 16
• CRCF to own home/apt 11
• Homeless into own home/apt 6
• Maintain current CRCF/rehab placement 3
• Familys home to own apt 1
• Familys home to CRCF 1
• Maintain apt 1
• Obtain citizenship - 1

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Ann

• Received inpatient care for 7 months
• Had funds to pay apt deposit and first months
  rent
• Needed assistance with two additional months
• Moved to own apt

9
George

• Living with mother, three siblings and 22 other
  people in two-bedroom house
• Needed assistance for first months rent and
  utility deposits
• Moved to own home

10
Sam

• Received inpatient care for 9 months
• Had no entitlements or family to assist
• Needed room/board funds for a shelter and monies
  for bus tickets to enable him to attend job
  skills training, toiletries and lunch at the
  program
• Four months later received additional funds to
  move into his own apt.

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Veronica

• Lived in a shelter with her two-month-old child
• Had enough funds thru a part-time job to pay 50
  of an apt deposit
• Needed 50 of deposit and utility deposits
• Moved to own apt

12
Doug Kyle

• Resided in an RTF
• Needed assistance with utility and apt deposits
• Moved to own apt

13
Tina

• Homeless
• Needed assistance paying storage fee
• Moved into her own apt

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Current Year

• Three inpatient facilities 7 CMHCs
• Assisted 26 consumers to date
• Eight inpatient
• Eighteen community

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Less Restrictive

• Homeless to own apt 10
• Hospital to CRCF 5
• CRCF to apt 5
• Hospital to shelter 2
• Homeless to hotel to apt 1
• Hospital to rehab program 1
• Nursing home to CRCF- 1
• Familys home to apt - 1

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Vicki McGahee

• SCDMH
• Office of Quality Management
• 2414 Bull Street, Suite 309-1
• Columbia, SC 29202
• 803-898-8326
• 803-667-2673 (cell)
• vlm72_at_scdmh.org (as of 10/01)