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CHAIRPERSON:
Sally Harmon, Supervisor, Adult Protective Services, DSS, 623-5243
MEETINGS:
The Adult Interagency Treatment Team meets the third Tuesday of each
month at 10 a.m. in the DSS Commons Room in Chesterfield.
GOAL:
The members assist each other with solving difficult problems for
clients, keeping abreast of resources and programs, creating and
managing needed programs, reducing duplication, and facilitating the
interagency referral process.
ACTIVITIES:
The Treatment Team began prior to
the formation of the CCCC. The Subcommittee is comprised of
treatment level staff working with adults. The group is
focused on helping each other address the client's problems
holistically, promoting independence and the prevention of recurring
problems.
While
working together, team members identify common client needs across
agency boundaries. These staff write and receive grants to
begin new services to meet these needs. The implementation and
maintenance of these new services is in addition to their full time
jobs. For clients whose application for Nutritional Supplement
or Blast Meals is denied, serious efforts are made to refer to other
programs to meet the client's needs.
The
Nutritional Supplement program makes canned supplement, such as
Equate or Ensure, available to ill adults that have no other means
of accessing the nutrition. The program is now funded solely
by donations from churches, fraternities, and grant applications.
As a group, the Subcommittee reviews applications and approves
clients to receive up to three cases before needing to reapply.
Established
in 1997, the Blast Meal Program provides five, flash frozen meals a
week to indigent, usually elderly, adults that do not have access to
other nutritional programs and do not have the extreme diet problems
addressed by the Nutritional Supplement program. Currently
funded by the United Way of Pageland/Jefferson and the United Way of
Chesterfield County, the program helps approximately 20 adults per
week to stay more independent and in their own home. Staff
making scheduled home visits deliver the meals, reducing the costs
of the program with at least 90% of grant funds being used to
purchase meals. Due to the unique delivery service, the CCCC-AITT
Blast Meal program won the 1998 Governor's Health Promotion for
Older South Carolinians Award.
PARTICIPATING
AGENCIES INCLUDE:
DHEC
Home Health
DHHS
Community Long Term Care
Helping
Hands Hospice
Hospice
of Chesterfield County
Chesterfield
County Council on Aging
DHHS
Medicaid
Chesterfield
County Department of Social Services
Chesterfield
County Veterans’ Affairs
Chesterfield
County Board of Disabilities & Special Needs
Tri-County Mental Health Center
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