Source of Care
BarriersC to care APPENDIX
Assets
“We’re not having any more babies because there are no doctors here and we don’t have a car.” Lack of local services:
MENTAL HEALTH Parents of Young Children
“My little boy has been diagnosed with autism…I need help.” “My son was fighting all the time and the school gave us a choice…they would press charges or he could leave. So, he dropped out in 11th grade.” “They think my daughter has bipolar, but I don’t know.”
Child-Bearing Adult
Western State Hospital
Lack of Medicaid providers:
Regional Resources/Community Partnerships:
Free Clinic Psychiatric medications
“My sister was diagnosed with bipolar, but she was not accepted by local doctors because they aren’t taking Medicaid….mental health out here is not very good.”
“Western State is the best thing that happened to my son. He thanked me for sending him there. It was the Commonwealth Attorney who took one look at him and said he needed a psych evaluation.”
Community Services Board Eagle’s Nest Clubhouse
Lack of local services: Private Provider
Free Clinic: “He doesn’t have insurance, but he can get his medications from the Free Clinic.”
“His Medicaid was denied and he can’t work because he has Schizophrenia, he hears voices in his head.” 97