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Adult & Children’s Community Integration & Case Management Services
PHILOSOPHY
The Charlotte White Center is committed to delivering the highest quality of social services to adults, children and families dealing with life challenges involving mental illness, mental retardation, physical handicaps and elder age-related issues.
Our mentor, Charlotte White, was a firm believer in offering individuals and families a chance to better their lives through the delivery of supportive social action. Her beliefs and thoughts are mirrored in the strengths based and family centered value system we adhere to in providing these services throughout the Central Maine area, including the counties of Piscataquis, Penobscot, Washington, Hancock, Somerset, Kennebec, Franklin and Waldo.
Community Integration
The Charlotte White Center provides community integration case management services to adults and children with a diagnosis of mental retardation, mental illness, a mental health crisis, autism, or pervasive developmental disorder.
GOALS
Within the case management system, the Charlotte White Center maintains certain goals in pursuit of quality care to insure that our services provide:
- Confidentiality
- Community based care
- Family focus
- Holistic approach
- Respect for family culture and values
- Strengths based assessments
- Needs driven planning
TEAM PLANNING
Our highly qualified staff create a planning partnership with the adults and children, their family, and the family team, which may include people from all areas of the individual’s life. The team works to maximize the individual’s potential by identifying the individual’s strengths and needs and the presence or absence of skills and resources necessary for the individual to achieve their goals.
Working with the Community Integration Worker/Case Manager, the team plans a course of action to meet identified needs and build on the person’s attributes and abilities. Staff monitor this unique, customized individual plan to keep it flexible and adjustable, insuring that it remains relevant to the individual’s specific needs as progress occurs and changes develop.
STRENGTHS BASED
The Charlotte White Center seeks to make the best use of the individual’s and their family’s natural support system by using the following strengths based approach:
- The support team is chosen by the child and family or adult with designated “concerned persons.”
- Planning is customized to individual needs.
- The team process involves discovering and using the skills and resources of the adult, child, family and community. These identified “strengths” are then used to address the person’s overall needs.
- The adult, child and family receive ongoing support from the Community Integratio Worker and other Charlotte White Center staff as appropriate.
REFERRAL PROCESS
The Charlotte White Center believes in the “no wrong door policy” for accessing mental health services as promoted by the State of Maine. We encourage referrals from individuals, family members, medical community, case managers, or service providers. Once the referral is made, a time for an initial intake will be scheduled. The intake involves gathering all the data necessary to determine eligibility.
ELIGIBILITY
At present our service network extends to Piscataquis, Penobscot, Hancock, Somerset and Waldo Counties . The service is funded primarily through MaineCare. The following eligibility criteria were designed to ensure that those individual’s are helped.
The Charlotte White Center provides community integration case management services to adults and children with a diagnosis of mental retardation, mental illness, a mental health crisis, autism, or pervasive developmental disorder.
Mental Health Community Integration Services:
Children:
- Has a presence of a medical diagnosis of mental illness, behavioral disorder or emotional disturbance;
- Is at risk of mental impairment, emotional or behavioral disorder due to recognized environmental or biological risks;
- Has a functional impairment;
- Is 20 years of age or younger.
Adults:
- AMHI Consent Decree Class Member
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- Is age 18 or is an emancipated minor;
- Has a presence of an Axis I or Axis II disorder;
- Manifests a risk for self care, self preservation, self harm or harm to others, incarceration, hospitalization, or homelessness as a result of symptoms;
- Locus assessment indicates a need for services.
Mental Retardation Community Integration Services:
Children:
- For birth to five years old, evidence of developmental delays;
- For ages six to twenty, has a diagnosis of mental retardation or an Axis II diagnosis of mental disorder, or;
- Has a recent assessment with approved screening tools indicating risk of cognitive and/or mental, or emotional or behavioral disorder;
- Is age 20 or younger.
Adults:
- Has a diagnosis of mental retardation or autism;
- Is age 18 or older;
- Does not reside in an ICF/MR facility.
Note: Individuals ages 18 to 20 have the option of seeking services under the adult or children’s eligibility requirements.
How to contact us:
Community Integration Services
Dover-Foxcroft Office:
572 Bangor Road
Dover-Foxcroft , Maine 04426
(207) 564-2499
Email: info@charlottewhite.org
Bangor Office:
Stillwater Professional Park
38 Penn Plaza
Bangor, ME 04401
(207) 947-1410
1-877-258-7278
Email: info@charlottewhite.org
Funding for this program provided by the Department of Health and Human Services .
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