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Charter B & P Club Member Receives Life Membership Section Two The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, December 15,1962 9 On Thursday evening at the Business & Professional Women's Club's dinner meeting, one of the highlights was the presentation of a Life Membership to the club's charter member, Marion Jeffery. Taking part in the presentation were, from left to right, Greta Brown as Santa, Mrs. Jeffery, District 4 President Jan Earle of Port Hope and Mrs. Jeffery's daughter, Judy Hagerman. y BETHANY and DISTRICT NEWS (Intended for last week) Wasn't that warm weather we had last week great! Mind you, I want a white Christmas. Improved; health is wished for Mr. Thomas Morton who is in Civic Hospital suffering lime Lila Kerr who expects to be home soon after a lengthy bout in St. Joseph's Hospital. Mr. and Mrs. George Carter, Bowmanville, and Rev. John Jones were SPECIAL ALL TV ■ SERVICE I CALLS WITH I THIS AD ONLY FALCON TV 426 Simcoe St. S. 723-0011 Guarantee on all parts and service Saturday evening dinner guests with Mr. and Mrs. W. McMahon. On Dec. 1st, the Sr. Citizens played shuffleboard and at 9:30, it was team 1, Irene MacDonald, Mildred Bristow, Derena Clark, Bertha Ferren against team 3, Annie Sharpe, Dave Brooks, Eleanor Brooks, Leonard Driver, with each team winning a game. At 10:30 a.m. it was team 2, George E. Clarke, Gertie Clark, Iva Porteous, Lloyd Clark against team 4, Ruth Traynor, Mary Morton, Mildred Braithwaite, Francis Jackson and each team also won a game each. In the absence of some of the players, other members filled in. In the afternoon, several Golden Stars members went by bus to Extendicare Nursing Home in Peterborough to entertain the patients. Things started off with a lively singsong singsong and then some of the members presented a funny skit which they learned while visiting at Scott's Resort in New York State this summer. Ruth Jennings, Audrey Gilmour and Fenton Fallis supplied violin music, accompanied by Lillian Fallis on the piano. They all enjoyed visiting with one of the members, Mre. Ina Palmer. Later in the afternoon they went to Rosemere Manor in Lakefield and entertained for an hour. Cookies and tea were served before returning home. The next meeting will be a Christmas dinner and program on Dec. 15th. On Dec. 13th, the Bethany members are invited to Fenelon Falls to play shuffleboard. I think that it is great that the Sr. Citizens go and entertain those who are in nursing homes, and I would like to congratulate them and the many other groups in the village who share their good fortune and health, helping others. © IF YOU DRINK. Ministry of the Attorney General ©Ontario Roy M(Murtry Atti >tn<*y ( irnrr.il Willi,im I ),ivis Prrmiri New Durham Region Team Links Up "Special Needs 99 Families and Agencies A new link in the service delivery network for Durham region pre-schoolers with special needs attempts to support both . families and agencies by coordinating cases requiring information, assessment and or treatment. As the person responsible for administering the "Case Coordination" programme, Joan Bryce explains, the focus is prevention through intervention. intervention. "We try to ensure that special needs children are receiving the most appropriate appropriate services at the appropriate appropriate time," she said, "in other words our aim is to reduce the possibility of a crisis by working with a family when the signs or problems first become evident." She emphasizes that they do not provide direct services but fulfill a type of advisory role to make parents more aware of their rights and responsibilities responsibilities as advocated for their special needs children. "Many families struggle with their own feelings as they try to come to grips with a 'special' situation. It is important important that such parents fully understand the needs of their children and at the same time not become threatened by professionals or agencies, she said. We want them to know exactly what resources are available and how to take advantage of this help but then we encourage them to go after the resources themselves." Though Ministry-funded, programme operated out of Health Unit The Case Coordination pro- ramme is funded 100 percent jy the Ministry uniter the Developmental Services Act (with a 1982-83 budget of approximately $125,000) and sponsored by the Durham Regional Health Unit. Mrs. Bryce says that as a relatively universal and neutral agency familiar with children from birth, Public Health was deemed the best place to locate such an effort. She goes on to explain that she first developed the service proposal some two years ago with the assistance of a resource body, the Interagency Interagency Advisory Group and the Mental Retardation Working Working Group for the Peterborough Peterborough area. The programme was approved approved by the Ministry in March, 1981 and full operations operations launched as of last October. The current project team consists of Mrs. Bryce as Case Coordinator and two case managers. The Interagency Advisory Committee, which includes representation from some 19 regional service providers, continues to meet monthly to assist the development of the case management system and ensure continued cooperation among member agencies. To help coordinate programme programme operations on a daily basis, one worker from each of these agencies has also been selected to act in a liaison capacity. "In short", she notes, "all of our member agencies have really committed themselves to the project." / "A representative of each senior management team sits on the advisory committee and a frontline staff member has assumed the role of liaison person to keep in close contact with and support fellow workers." Case coordination a relatively informal process Mrs. Bryce terms case coordination essentially a "casual service", adding that the key to the programme is "learning to accept families as they are - adapting to their level of understanding." She explains that referrals to the team generally receive three visits - the first involves merely an introduction to the service followed by a second meeting within the same week to discern how the parents feel about their "special needs" child. The third visit, she notes, is an attempt to present the families with some positive outlets - inform them about infant stimulation or nursery programs, financial resources available for special educa tion and even other groups of parents with similar children. "We want to give them a lift by making them realize that things can happen right away," she said. She emphasizes that at this stage the parents are encouraged encouraged to ask their own family doctor to conduct an assessment assessment on the child but should this pose any problems, the case coordination team is always ready to help. "We get to know the parents quite well and would like to think that there comes a point where families really want to make the contacts themselves, themselves, she said. However we do everything we can to make their involvement involvement as easy as possible by undertaking a lot of 'behind the scenes' work and should the situation prove to be more than they can handle, we will go to bat for them," she said. Once the recommendations for programming are determined, determined, the team will search out possibilities and then advise their clients of suitable resources. She emphasizes that the timing of this feedback is very important since the parents must be prepared to make the final decisions. "What counts is that suggestions suggestions are presented only when the parents are ready because it is not productive to alienate them, she said. I should also mention that they won't always end up choosing what we prefer but we support them no matter the direction they decide to take and we will stay with them for as long as they need us." Inter-agency cooperation another element of programme Mrs. Bryce notes that if a number of agencies have already been involved with a particular referral, the team will call a case conference to coordinate past assessment information and identify ongoing ongoing treatment needs. Shé explains that each agency is asked to detail their history with the client and indicate future requirements. From this a three-month action plan is drawn up to specify individual agency responsibilities including the most appropriate prime worker for the case. With the completion of the conference, these duties are written up formally and sent out to everyone involved in the case. "This ensures that the professionals are accountable to one another and that one particular frontline worker has overall responsibility for case management, she said. At the same time we hope that it will prevent children from being lost in the system or all of a sudden reappearing with a host of problems." She adds that such interagency interagency cooperation helps reduce the possibility of risk. "The agencies themselves have said that a coordinated effort makes their job more pleasant because they are no longer alone in their decisions." decisions." Team handles a range of "special needs" children Although the team deals primarily with develop- mentally or multiply handicapped handicapped children, they have also seen cases involving environmental deprivation, disablilities such as blindness or deafness, behavioural problems problems and emotional disturbances. disturbances. As of the end of June, 1982 (the first seven months of full operations) there have been some 87 referrals to the case coordination programme; 23 percent of which are develop- mentally handicapped, 21 percent percent from a 'nigh risk' environment, 13 percent physically handicapped, 11 percent develojpmentally delayed, and six percent, multiply handicapped. Approximately 75 percent of the referrals have come from the Health Unit's Infaqt Stimulation programme or public health nurses with other sources ranging from paediatricians, specialized preschool programmes and social service agencies to the families themselves. Some 85 percent of the children were between birth and five years of age at the time of referral while the remaining 15 percent were over five (most of this group referred due to a particular crisis). Of the programme's 87 cases, 58 are currently active with 29 receiving minimal assistance or consultation only. Mrs. Bryce notes one particularly particularly interesting case of an immigrant family with a special needs child. "Since most of the family's problems stemmed from isolation, we suggested to the parents that they might like to 'adopt' grandparents for the little boy. Now the child has his own set of surrogate grandparents and the elderly couple are so delighted to be able to help the family, she said. So, our work can really" range from a quite simple resolution such as this to more complex problems requiring daycare or medical services." Fire Hits Garage on Zion Road By Peter Parrott The loss has been estimated at $8,000 following a fire which demolished a double garage on Zion Road North, early Sunday morning. Newcastle Fire Department reports that the garage and the nearby house were vacant at the time of the blaze. Fire Chief Jim Hayman said the fire was noticed by a passing motorist at approximately approximately 3:45 a.m. The cause is believed to have been of an incendiary nature. Durham Regional Police are investigating. Flowers by Jackman 623-3365 Bowmanvit Mai iHk s on giving... Every week throughout the year! A Gift Subscription to Sift Canadian Statesman M Published by the James Publishing Co. Ltd. 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