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Wrap Around Services Explained

Wrap around services means we work with social services and the different agencies in our region. since we are between two major cities in our state, we go one direction for some services, and the other direction for the rest. It gets very confusing trying to get all of the different agencies to communicate with each other.   I’ll build a glossary of terms, in the coming weeks.   As a parent of a kid with mental illness, I sometimes take for granted that everyone knows what I am talking about. I imagine that it is like listening to a race car driver talk about turns, wedges and drifts, he may know what he is talking about, and his team knows what he means but no one else does.  That is an assumption on my part that I will work to correct.   The reason that wrap around services is

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Tags: glossary, knowledge, mental health, wrap around services ·

Can I say that I am a little bit angry?

We picked up David today from the mental health unit. We were given two new prescriptions for him. We traveled home.  I dropped the scripts off at the local pharmacy. I asked to be notified if the insurance company gives them any trouble filling the prescription. An hour later the pharmacy called.  Insurance needs preauthorization.  I asked how long that would take. Three or four days. So I called the hospital.  Doctor has left for the day. Staff at the hospital said that they would get in touch with the doctor and see what we are supposed to do. We are supposed to come off the new dose of the one medicine, go back to our old dose of that medicine until we get the authorization from the insurance company for the new medicine. Yeah, because the human body is a yo-yo that likes this type of medication change.  Given

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Tags: frustration, insurance fail, mental health ·

The Story of Doubting Dad

Dear Why Not Fathers, I know this dad.  He has a son who suffers from mental illness.  Really, the whole family suffers with the mental illness of the child.  No one person in the family is immune to the tragedy that is mental illness. He and his family are literally doing everything that they can to help their son. Yet, he continually doubts himself, thinking that he isn’t doing every thing that he can. He spends his days looking for other ways to help his son. To help the rest of the family. I keep telling him that he is doing every thing possible.  Yet the doubt still exists. How do I convince him that he is really doing every thing that he can for his family?  That the fault in the system is not his to take blame for? No amount of money can help this situation, other than

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