HomeMy WebLinkAbout1985-06-24-HSC-min.pdf HUMAN SERVICES COMMITTEE
Minutes of the Meeting of June 24, 1985
Present Roberta Black, Sheila Martin, Marion Shepp, Stan Finkelstein, Jan Eustis,
Judy Zabin, Leonora Zola, Bea Phear guest Richard Weiss
Minutes
The minutes of the meeting of June 3 were approved as mailed.
Providers Council
Judy reported that Marge Battin will be happy to moderate a discussion of needs
after a presentation She is available before October 5 A preferred date of
Thursday, September 26 was selected, with Monday, September 30 as alternate Judy
will confirm with Marge
Roberta suggested adding nursing homes to the provider mailing list Also day
care, corporate personnel offices, corporate community liaison offices, and
the Chamber of Commerce The guest list will be discussed at the next meeting
Bea distributed copies of the 1982 providers' responses to their perception of
needs, and the summary results of the 1984 Nominal Group Process meetings This
will be discussed at the next meeting
Mystic Valley Mental Health
1. Staffing Richard confirmed that 3 DMH staff positions are being moved from
the agency to the adolescent consortium. This is combined with a state shift
from clinicians to administrators, and an Area Office priority setting for the
chronically mentally ill, emotionally disturbed mentally retarded, and Court Clinic
back-up as highest priority Second priority is elderly, and children & family
Third priority is general community outpatient
The positions being transferred will be one to AYCC now and two later, when
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they become vacant They are for seriousely disturbed adolescents, with the
age not yet defined. The impact on Mystic Valley will be that general community
mental health will have to shift to hired clinicians (social worker $20/hr ) and
more fee for service and private clinic operation They will probably shift to
more evenings and fewer days in Woburn and Arlington
2 Kelleher The workshop will move, probably in September There had been 1
discussion of a Lexington site near the fire station, but Mystic Valley is now
negotiating for a site in Arlington Heights, which will have some growth potential
They will add 20 clients over the next two year, probably some from the new
ICF/MR facilities on the Met. State property
3 Hancock St There is a new staff person after a three month vacancy There
are two residents and two vacancies They are waiting for the Area Office to
fill these The whole residential program has 29 clients, and Mystic Valley gets
paid on a utilization rate of 85% at the moment they are still being fully
funded. The expectation is clients will move from the State hospital to staffed
houses and then to supervised apartments They are planning a training program at
the site of the staffed house to prepare hospital patients to move
4 Reporting form. Leonora prepared a draft for a new reporting form. Richard
will review it and get back to Bea. Leonora gave the corrected contract to Bea.
New Committee Members
The committee interviewed Diana Bander for one of the fall vacancies She is
a consultant on management issues and is primarily interested in special
housing Her dissertation was on the history of the shape of public policy for
special needs
After some discussion, it was decided to recommend to the Board of Selectmen
that they appoint Sheldon Spector and Harvey Lowell to the vacancies that will
occur at the end of September Bea was asked to write the Board. CC. Chao had
told Judy he may also resign, due to work pressures Sylvia Perlman would be
the recommendation to fill that vacancy; however Judy was asked to urge C.C. not
to resign
Next Meetings
Monday, July 8, room 111, 7 30 p.m.
Monday, August 19, room 111, 7 30 p m.
It was also decided to have an informal discussion, for whoever was interested,
about future subcommittee structure, on Monday, July 15 at 8 00 p.m. at Judy
Zabin's house - One Page Road.
Respectfully submitted,
Beatrice Phear
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