What is the Collaborative?

Dear Community Member:

You are invited to join us in beginning a community-wide conversation about how to evolve best practices for the care and support of children and families with ongoing mental health needs. Specifically, we will consider the needs of our most challenging cases e.g. involvement with multiple service providers and high intensity programs such as in-home services, therapeutic day treatment, and/or hospitalization/residential history.

The goal of the Children's Services Collaborative is to determine best practices for our local community with regard to stewardship of funds, clinical approaches, qualifications and training of staff members, and multicultural needs. Together, we will develop ways to ensure that services are provided at appropriate levels of frequency, intensity and duration. We hope to achieve our goals after 5 meetings; interested individuals can continue to meet if desired.

The Collaborative will bring interprofessional conversation and focus to this crucial topic. To this end, individuals representing a wide range of child and family services are invited to participate.  If you would like to forward this to anyone we missed please feel free to do so.

Agencies and organizations include:

Crossroads Counseling Center                           Harrisonburg League of Therapists

Center for Marriage and Family Counseling        Healthy Community Council

McNulty Center                                                 Department of Social Services

Boys and Girls Club                                           Harrisonburg City Schools

Rockingham County Schools                              Collins Center

Hispanic Ministry of Blessed Sacrament Church  FAPT/CPMT members

New Bridges Immigrant Resource Center            Health Department

Harrisonburg/Rockingham Free Clinic                 Community Health Center

JMU – Department of Graduate Psychology       JMU – IIHHS

JMU – Department of Social Work                    EMU – Department of Counseling

The Collaborative will be co-facilitated by Greg Czyszczon, Ed.S., LPC, of Crossroads Counseling Center and Jennifer Henkel, LCSW, of the Harrisonburg League of Therapists. Please indicate your interest with a phone call or a return email to Greg or Jennifer. We hope that you will join us for this important work.

HLT will host our first meeting on January 27, 2011 at 9:30 AM

312 South Main Street, Harrisonburg

Jennifer Henkel, LCSW                                             Greg Czyszczon, Ed.S., LPC

Harrisonburg League of Therapists                             Crossroads Counseling Center

jennifer.henkel@leagueoftherapists.com                      gczyszczon@csv-inc.com

437-1605                                                                  801-0885