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Human Services Advisory Commission Forum - September 13, 2000 <br />Mental Health - It Affects All Ages <br />The Friday Center <br />Chapel Hill, NC <br />Five Most Important Issues Identified by Each Strategy Group <br />Young Children's (Birth — Eight Years Old) Mental Health Issues <br />Pri_ ority Issue <br />43 Equity of access to services(poor, working poor, bi- lingual, geographic, communication <br />skills, transportation, insured and uninsured) <br />43 Ensuring an early collaborative effort between schools, Mental Health, DSS, and Health <br />Dept. <br />28 Quality, availability and continuum of mental health services <br />18 Increasing schools capacity to deal w/ mental health issues <br />16 Automatic mental health treatment services for children involved in domestic violence and <br />child abuse. <br />15 Seeing affordable, high quality child care with low staff- child ratios as a preventative and <br />supportive service for all children <br />14 Comprehensive system of personnel training and development regarding mental health <br />needs, services and issues; physicians, other clinicians, child care and public school <br />teachers, para- professionals, students, etc. <br />13 Increased public awareness regarding the impact of mental health issues primarily <br />involving children 0 -8 years/ availability of services/ stigma/ risk factors/ violence in media, <br />family issues, etc. <br />6 Parenting classes for Orange County Residents <br />5 Giving children 0 -3 years a good start <br />5 Family issues: stress and effect of divorce and parental conflict on children <br />5 Lack of supervision of children during summer breaks, and other gaps/ need for <br />recreational activities <br />5 Targeting of mental health resources to neighborhoods w/ high crime and substance abuse <br />4 Increase capacities of county agencies to serve diverse populations, especially Latinos <br />2 Mental health services for families and persons in transition <br />1 Need for broad -based legal advocacy <br />1 Access to mental health and substance abuse counseling for pregnant women <br />- Lack of constancy of care given high turnover and environment provided for children, <br />especially 0 -3 years <br />- Provision of services to families involved with substance abuse <br />- How do we encourage support and participation of families <br />- Low value placed upon children, child care and general needs of families <br />- Cultural relevance of Mental Health services <br />- Need for more respite care for families <br />- Identify children's abilities within context of family and community life <br />- Lack of access to male role models for children 0 -5 years <br />- Inconsistency in ways cases are handled and services delivered <br />- Housing support and coordinated comprehensive services for victims of domestic violence <br />Page 1 of 5 <br />