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Standard and Guidelines for Self Help
Standard
Culturally competent self help groups will be created to provide services to consumers of African descent and their families. The self help groups must function as part of a seamless continuum of care. Self help groups for consumers of African descent must incorporate consumer-driven goals and objectives that are functionally defined and oriented towards rehabilitative and recovery outcomes.
Implementation Guidelines
Managed care plans for behavioral health programs must include self
help funding set aside to enable consumers of African descent and their families to
utilize this approach.
Consumers of African descent and their families must have a decision
making role in the design, implementation, and evaluation of self help programs.
Existing self help structures, programs, agencies, and systems that
provide services to consumers of African descent and their families must be identified,
acknowledged, and evaluated to ensure that they meet these guidelines.
Self help planning for consumers of African descent and their
families must include consumer and family education about problems and conditions being
treated and treatment approaches. Cultural beliefs and attitudes about health,
spirituality, mental health, as well as education about preventive approaches must be
addressed.
Consumer self help groups must advocate on behalf of consumers of
African descent and their families to ensure benefit packages, changes in benefits,
alterations in services, location of service programs, and changes in providers are
congruent with consumer needs.
Self help planning for consumers of African descent and their
families must address coordination of mental, spiritual, and physical health, as well as
other needed social, treatment, and support services(e.g. housing, transportation,
education, and substance abuse services) according to the health beliefs and practices of
the consumer and family.
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