ChristieCare announces new initiatives for children in Alaska, Southern Oregon
Children and families in two underserved areas – Alaska and Southern Oregon – stand to benefit from ChristieCare’s newest service initiatives.
Bolstered by a $25,000 grant from the Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority, ChristieCare plans to open a program in July 2007 that serves Alaska Native children who require out-of-state placements. The program will use a culturally responsive treatment approach for Native youth and families that will focus on addressing emotional, spiritual, cultural, educational and physical needs in partnership with the child, family and community.
For more information, see ChristieCare Receives Alaska Grant, and a related story, ChristieCare Awarded Grant for Alaska Natives, published in the West Linn (Oregon) Tidings.
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ChristieCare and Telecare, an adult behavioral health organization, are jointly negotiating with Mercy Medical Center to provide psychiatric services to adolescents and adults from Douglas County and surrounding Southern Oregon communities. Following Mercy’s announcement in February that it planned to close its Behavioral Health Unit (BHU) due to operating losses, the Roseburg, Oregon based hospital selected ChristieCare and Telecare as potential operators of the BHU as a freestanding psychiatric hospital.
For more information, see ChristieCare Proposes Joint Venture, and a related story, Offer Made to Save Behavioral Health Unit, published in the Roseburg News Review.