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85 Children’s Home Road
Scope of Work: The Mental Health staff provides
services on the Qualla Boundary as well as Cherokee County
and Snowbird. Their services include: individual therapy,
group therapy, family therapy, stress reduction, relaxation
training, anger management, psycho-educational assessments,
Batterer’s Re-education, EMDR, in-patient consults,
training/education in-services, consultations with other programs.
Contact:
Reva Ballew, Ph.D. Manager 497-4606
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2003 Accomplishments:
- 3954 patient contacts from 8/02-7/03
- Rich Panther, Outpatient Therapist, obtained his LCSW,
Licensed Clinical Social Worker.
- Dr. Marie Wilkie, Child & Adolescent psychologist,
was chosen by the American Psychological Association to
participate in their Minority Fellowship Program/Psychology
Summer Institute and to serve as an I H S grant reviewer.
- Dr. Patricia McClanahan held a 2 day Project Making Medicine
Site-visit workshop, prevention of child abuse & neglect
which had 141 registered participants.
- Betty Smith, petition caseworker, assisted with 32 petitions
for Involuntary Commitment from 8/02-7/03.
- Increased provision of mental health/substance abuse
services at other locations:
- Tsali Manor, Seven Clans Dialysis Center-Rich Panther
- Marble Clinic, Cherokee County-Rebecca Fugate, M.A.
- Women’s Wellness Center-Rebecca Fugate, M.A.
- CIHA Pain Clinic-Rich Panther, Rebecca Fugate, Dr.
Patricia
McClanahan, Dr. Reva Ballew
- Snowbird Clinic-Dr.Patricia McClanahan, Dr. Mary Wilkie
- CIHA Employee Stress Group-Rebecca Fugate, M.A., Rich
Panther, LCSW
- Walkingstick Shelter-Rebecca Fugate
- First Group of Batterer’s Re-education Treatment
participants completed 27 week program, a 60% completion
rate.
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