Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Psychiatric Unit

MindPeace advocates for access to high quality mental healthcare for all children in Greater Cincinnati.

Short term Focus: 1) School Based Mental Health Services 2) Pediatricians 3) Awareness

Pediatricians •Cincinnati Pediatric

Society •Pediatric Mental Health

Collaboration

School Systems •Cincinnati Public School District**

•Oak Hills School District

Mental Health Providers

•Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

•St. Aloysius Orphanage •The Children’s Home of Cincinnati

•Talbert House •LifePoint Solutions

•Beech Acres Parenting Center •Central Clinic

•Lighthouse Youth Services •BridgePointe

Advocacy & Funding Organizations

•Growing Well Cincinnati •National Alliance on

Mental Illness •Ohio School Based Healthcare Association

•Strive •The Greater Cincinnati Foundation

•The Health Foundation of Greater Cincinnati

•United Way of Greater Cincinnati

Government Agencies

•City of Cincinnati Health Department •Hamilton County Mental

Health & Recovery Services Board

•Ohio Department of Mental Health

Originally 909 names of mental health providers in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana.

Contacted all providers by telephone. Final list roughly 500 mental health providers. Information for each provider:

Name Credentials Insurances Accepted (including Medicaid) Accepting new patients Office hours Phone number City, State, zip Age groups served Specialties

The 09/10 data indicates the largest barrier to mental health treatment was the “inability for providers to reach parents for consents”

Overall 14% or 233/1,654 referrals for therapy were unable to be processed due to this barrier.

The MindPeace network developed the following interview parameters: 11 open ended interview questions 10 schools 5 high barrier Elementary Schools- AWL, Rothenberg, Quebec Heights High Schools- Hughes, Woodward

5 low barrier Elementary Schools- Ethel Taylor, Pleasant Ridge, S. Avondale High Schools- Shroder (7-12) , Riverview East (PreK-12)

Participate in Planning Committee meetings. Make copies of session powerpoints and

evaluations. Enter session evaluations into Survey Monkey

after every session. Recreate session evaluations to gain new

knowledge about the parents’ needs and wants.

Help set up, bring parents to room, implement and clean up every session and provide childcare when necessary.

Developed follow-up surveys for Parent Organizational Notebook, “Ask a Pharmacist” night, and Childhood Depression.

Compiled a list of participant zip codes to develop a map to illustrate where participants are traveling from and whether or not sessions could be offered at multiple locations.

Develop a list of attendance and figured out how many participants are repeats, how many participants are foster parents, how the participants found out about the sessions, etc.

Tracked the amount of people that RSVP’d and attended the sessions.

Developed a pilot evaluation for Behavior Management 101 session on January 12th, 2011. Survey was distributed to participants prior to the participants and an additional follow up survey was given out a month after the session via telephone. Results were obtained and compared to help demonstrate the effectiveness of the session and determine the extent of application of skills and knowledge that the parents gained and utilized.

Researching Grants Updating resources Prevention in CPS schools School Nurse Advocacy

Studied Councilmen Attended City Hall meeting Letter to the editor

Area I: Assess needs, Assets and Capacity for Health Education Assessment of prevention/education mental health resources for

school-based mental health Analyzing data and assessing barriers to prevention or treatment of

mental health resources. Meeting with therapists to discuss consent barriers on their end.

Area II: Plan Health Education Be a member of the Planning Committee for the Parent Education

Sessions. Coordinate speakers, set up equipment, contacting parents, etc. Help develop strategies to fill in the gaps of mental health

education/prevention information and resources.

Area III: Implement Health Education Attend and assist in facilitating Parent Education Sessions,

gather materials, set up equipment, make sure things run smoothly, answer questions, and develop report with parents.

Develop an educational set of “best practices” for therapists in Cincinnati Public Schools to decrease barriers.

Area IV: Conduct Evaluation and Research Related to Health Education Gathering and analyzing parent and staff process evaluations. Gathering and analyzing parent satisfaction evaluations. Developing and implementing a pre and post test of parent

knowledge.

Area V: Administer and Manage Health Education Determine ways to increase parent retention. May need to make phone

interviews for follow-ups. Make adjustments according to parent/family needs. Maintenance of mental health provider database.

Area VI: Serve as a Health Education Resource Person Creating and maintaining a database of all mental health providers

that will serve as a resource tool to mental health providers, pediatricians, parents, and the community at large. Information will be put onto CCHMC website and updated regularly.

Updating educational materials & Community resources on MindPeace website.

Collaboration and coordination with mental health providers, pediatricians, organizations that are partnered with MindPeace (Talbert House, Beech Acres, etc.), Mental Health Arts Collaboration, Health and Wellness Collaboration, Mental Health Task Force, therapists in CPS schools, and more. (Act as a liaison).

Area VII: Communicate and Advocate for Health and Health Education Communicate mental health resources and

educational information to schools. Attend Mental Health Arts Collaborative meetings

to help reduce mental health stigma. CPS School Nurse Advocacy