TY - JOUR
T1 - Competence enhancement and primary prevention as core functions of CMHCs
T2 - A case study and blueprint for the future
AU - Clabby, John F.
AU - Elias, Maurice J.
N1 - Funding Information:
Day Hospital staff. This adaptation of SPS technology also filtered into the work done with adult clients. Specifically, components of the SPS approach were adapted by a CMHC clinician, trained by SPS staff, for use with a group of adult aftercare clients at the CMHC's clinic in the inner city. In a gradual way, the learnings of what was once a small consultation and education project, originally given sanction to better the relationship between the CMHC and a local school system, were now influencing some of the primary and core functions of the CMHC. The most significant milestone toward institutionalization has been the announcement by the University of Medicine and Dentist-ry of New Jersey that its Community Mental Health Center at Pisca-taway had created a Social Problem Solving Unit, on an organizational par with the other service delivery units of the CMHC. The program staff's salaries shifted to "hard lines" and the CMHC psychologist responsible for the program was promoted to become the director of the new unit and Chief Psychologist for the UMDNJ-CMHC at Piscataway on a reporting and accountability line on a par with the directors of the other service delivery units, e.g., adult hospital, psychiatric emergency service, among others. There are other more recent developments that validate and solid-ify the various institutions' initial decisions to commit to the project. Of particular interest to the UMDNJ-CMHC and Rutgers University constituency was the announcement that the program was named the recipient of the Lela Rowland Prevention Award by the National Mental Health Association (NMHA) as an outstanding example of effective prevention programming and the accompanying commitment by the NMHA to help disseminate the program nationwide. In addition, the Social Problem Solving Unit has been cited as a model program by the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Of particular validation to the school systems was the news that the program was selected by the New Jersey Department of Education as one of three model prevention programs in the State. As part of this designation, the Social Problem Solving Program became part of a State Department of Education grant program whereby school districts could secure funds from the State to contract for prevention services from the Social Problem Solving Program.
PY - 1990/7/13
Y1 - 1990/7/13
N2 - The stages through which an innovation passes on its way toward becoming institutionalized within a host setting are delineated. A historical chronicle is presented of how a social problem solving program, designed as a competence enhancing, primary prevention effort, goes through these stages within the hosting public school system. Additionally, a parallel process is described regarding how the Social Problem Solving Program progressed along a similar route within its parent mental health center on its way to becoming a regular and permanent service delivery entity within the mental health center.
AB - The stages through which an innovation passes on its way toward becoming institutionalized within a host setting are delineated. A historical chronicle is presented of how a social problem solving program, designed as a competence enhancing, primary prevention effort, goes through these stages within the hosting public school system. Additionally, a parallel process is described regarding how the Social Problem Solving Program progressed along a similar route within its parent mental health center on its way to becoming a regular and permanent service delivery entity within the mental health center.
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U2 - 10.1300/J293v07n02_02
DO - 10.1300/J293v07n02_02
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0024993083
SN - 0270-3114
VL - 7
SP - 3
EP - 15
JO - Prevention in Human Services
JF - Prevention in Human Services
IS - 2
ER -