ADHD CCC Study Proposal Project Profile

Dr. Margot Fass, New Life Fellowship

 

 

Project Title:

 

A Christ-Centered Collaborative, Cooperative, Community Counseling Center

 

Timeline:

 

September 11, 2003 to September 11, 2004, or whatever is a realistic time line for

      1. Funding

      2. Staffing

      3. Training

      4. Implementation

Project Contact Information: 

Margot Fass, MD, 527 Linden Street, Rochester, N.Y. 14620

E-mail: mlfassmd@yahoo.com  (www.mlfassmd.com), (585) 244-6366

Joanne McGriff, MD, c/o New Life Fellowship Church, 330 Wellington Avenue, Rochester, N.Y. 14619

E-mail: Joanne_Augustin@URMC.Rochester.edu  (585) 436-0085,   ext.

 

Project Description:

 

What:

A Christ Centered Collaborative, Cooperative, Community Counseling Center.

Utilizing a Biopsychosocialspiritual approach to assessment and treatment.

Empowering through identification and utilization of strengths.

Relevance through building on interests in the arts and sensory skills.

Longevity through training recipients in leadership, counseling, and community outreach.

 

Who:

Focused on the abused, disenfranchised, emotionally damaged and the lonely.

In particular, juveniles with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) who meet the above criteria and also:

1. may be reenacting violence in their lives

2. may not have access to services

3. may have comorbid conditions such as alcoholism, chemical dependency and/or addictions, learning disabilities, or other Axis I and Axis II diagnoses.

4. may have multiple psychosocial and environmental problems (Axis IV); problems with primary support group, related to the social environment, educational, occupational, housing, economic, access to health care, interaction with the legal system/crime.)

5. may have family members with similar problems

Work with age groups 10-13 and 13-16 of boys released on probation from Industry, and Girls from _________________

 

Why:

           

Christ Centered: Most major social movements and services have been Christian based, and then become secularized.  However, Christ is the source, and the healing power, and needs to be included in counseling services.

Collaborative, Cooperative:  No single agency or church can provide all of the resources and talents needed for addressing and resolving the problems in the neighborhood. Each provides special areas of expertise. Funding sources are recognizing more and more that effectiveness of projects is proportionately related to the degree of cooperation and collaboration that is present on any given project. 

Community Counseling Center: The most disenfranchised are unable to travel for services they need. Researchers have discovered that there is no way to reach inner city except by going to them; e.g. through churches. They don't come to major health centers even if free care, transportation, etc. are provided.

Biopsychosocialspiritual approach to assessment and treatment: 

African American health is extremely poor relative to Caucasian Health. A healthy body and lifestyle is essential to get out of the downward spiraling pathway taken by the marginalized. 

African Americans often see themselves as powerless victims and have given in to a sense of hopelessness and helplessness.  The person with ADHD has an especially poor self esteem. 

           

      Social and cultural styles and learning make it difficult to fit in and       mix with majority conservative values and mainstream education.             

      Even 12 step programs such as AA, Alanon, etc., may not be relevant

      to the African American.  Without a spiritual anchor and hope, there can be

no growth.  

      A combination of bad health, a poorly differentiated sense of self,             inadequate social support, and no sense of meaning or purpose in       life, can be, literally, a death sentence for self or others.

 

 

Identification and utilization of strengths:

People do better when they are recognized for what gifts and talents they DO have, and not for their inadequacies.

The arts and sensory skills:  Any culture which supports, encourages and emphasizes the arts, is less violent. 7-12% of the population has ADHD, persons who generally are particularly gifted with their hands, spatial relations, and with their five senses (auditory, visual, tactile, olfactory, and kinesthetic), which makes them good gardeners, musicians, artists, sculptors, mechanics, cooks, dancers, etc. 

Longevity: Unless a person or agency reproduces themselves and reaches out to others, death is the usual result.   Training recipients in leadership, counseling, and community outreach ensures not only that the lessons learned will be solidified within themselves, but also that a broader and broader component of the population can be reached.  .

22% of males and 28% of female juvenile delinquents have ADHD. Any society is only as healthy as its weakest links. Research has shown that proactive treatment of ADHD will reduce the probability of substance abuse, a large component of violence. It further shows that this treatment must be provided by age 13 to have the best results. Even among the wealthy, the availability of services is poor (e.g. 22 accepted into a program from 300 applicants).

 

Where:

Possible sites

      1. Family Restoration Site of New Life Fellowship (NLF)

      2. Litchfield Property belonging to NLF

      3. His Branches at 342 Arnett Boulevard Suite 3, 14619

      

           

Project Outcomes:

1) A collaboration between a major local church (New Life Fellowship), a major college or colleges (Roberts Weslyan, Elim Bible Institute), and a local health center (Grace Family Medicine)

2) A community developed outdoor mural

3) A community developed garden

4) A counseling center that is financially viable while providing care to

the poor

5) Identification of the marginalized, diagnosable and treatable local population

6) Salvation for the lost

7) A significant decrease in morbidity and mortality from violence in the Rochester area compared to a similar population matched for age, sex, disability, and socioeconomic level.

8) A significant increase in school and work performance and productivity compared to a similar population matched for age, sex, disability, and socioeconomic level. (The per capita murder rate is greater in Rochester than in NYC, and among the top three cities in NYS).

9) An infrastructure for research on improving community.

10)Streamlined and efficient assessment and delivery of care to those

who normally are neglected. Rochester is among the cities with the highest rates of childhood poverty.

 

Resource Needs:

Type of Resource:      Description of Resource:

Money:                 Grants, funding by third party billing, donations

People:                Administrative, Bookkeeping, Counselors (mental and physical), Educators, Executive, Fundraising, Marketing, Medical Director, Music and Art      Therapists, Public Relations, Research Director

Time:                  Volunteers

Site:                  Office space, privacy, wait area, access to support services (e.g. clerical)

Entrepreneurial nature of the proposal:  Creative. A new way of doing things, new approaches and better ways of getting things done. 

 

Other Interested investigators and staff:

David Dey, Director, Institute for Social Entrepreneurship, Roberts Wesleyan College, 2301 Westside Drive, Rochester, NY 14624-1997

E-mail:  deyd@roberts.edu  (www.roberts.edu/ise/)   (585) 594-6590,

Leonard P. Erb MSW, ACSW, Director, Center for Christian Social Ministries, Roberts Wesleyan College, 2301 Westside Drive, Rochester, NY 14624-1997

E-mail: erbl@roberts.edu (www.roberts.edu/ccsm/) (585) 594-6032 Fax: (585) 594-6480       

Cheryl Kodjco, M.D., Department of Pediatrics, Adolescent Medicine Division. University of Rochester, Strong Memorial Hospital, 601 Elmwood Avenue, 14642

E-mail:  ckodjco@URMC.Rochester.edu

William Morehouse, M.D., President of His Branches Inc. and Family Physician at Grace Family Medicine, 340 Arnett Boulevard, Rochester, N.Y. 14619

E-mail: wmorehouse@hisbranches.org (www.hisbranches.org) (585) 235-2250

Dr. Bill Descoteaux, Chairperson, Division of Social Work and Social Sciences, Roberts Wesleyan College, 2301 Westside Drive, Rochester, NY 14624-1997

E-mail: XXX@roberts.edu  (585) 594-6000  

www.roberts.edu/Social%20Work%20and%20Social%20Sciences

 

Possibly interested New Life members working in the world of mental health and substance abuse:

Cedric Alexander (Psychologist)

Eleanor Bain (???Mental Health Association???)

Andrea Brown (WannaBe Counselor)

Tammy Butler (or Parker)(WannaBe Counselor)

Renita Davie (Foster Children)

Stacey DeJesus (Alcohol Counseling)

Tonya Dickens-Johnson (Music Therapy)

Margie Fears (Mediation)

Rita Gaither (Wellness)

???Sharon Hartzog???

Audrey Holley (Counseling)

Michelle Hutchinson (Battered Women)

Jeff (choir tenor), (Group homes)  peace4jeffrey@netscape.net

Janice Ray (CAC)

Bernard Smith (Masters in Counseling from Roberts Weslyan)

Lynnette Tanner, R.N.

Karen Ward (Mediation, Children's issues)

Jeff Wynn (Pharmaceutical Representative for Psychotropics)

 

Other interested persons:

Lynn Feldman, artist, (585) 473-3864, worked at Monroe Middle School on murals.

Nancy Hines, nhinesroch@yahoo.com (585) 436-9242 R.N. at St. Mary's Hospital, and artist. Works with marginalized family.

Linda Alpert Gillis, Ph.D. discipline coordinator and Social Worker, who is especially interested in the medically ill.

Janet Krause. Nutritionist. Works with developmentally disabled.

Diane Macchiavelli, (585) 242-9518 qistream@earthlink.com. Licensed Acupuncturist with special interest in Addiction Medicine.

Krysia Mnick, Artist (585) 442-7666, P.O. Box 10276 krysiamnick@hotmail.com, Does outdoor murals with juveniles from drug courts.

Athesia Benjamen, avb9920@yahoo.com, (585) 279-0485  Worked on outdoor mural for Baden Street Settlement.  Getting masters degree at RIT. 

Sandra Nickeson 314-621-7474, earthart_sm@hotmail.com, well known gardener and artist in Ohio who involves marginalized kids.

Donna Palumbo, Ph.D., Director, ADHD Clinic, Department of Neurology,

Strong Memorial Hospital

Other resources:

Possible Funding Sources

      Arts & Cultural Council (Laura Seligman)

      Grants identified by Dr. McGriff

      National Institutes of Health

      Pharmaceutical Houses, e.g.

            Abbott (Desoxyn)

            Celtec (Metadate)

            Cephalon (Provigil)

            Eli Lilly (Straterra, Zyprexa)

            Glaxo Smith Kline (Dexedrine, Wellbutrin)

            McNeil (Concerta)

            Novartis (Focalin and Ritalin LA)

            Shire (Adderall)

      Project Believe (Tom Pearson, Director) has vision to                            make Rochester the ²Healthiest City.²  Provides 2                         year grants for $25,000/year for this purpose.   

      Rochester Grantmakers Forum (FundersAlliance of                                   Upstate New York, Rochester Effectiveness                                   Partnership, WILL power, Guide to Grantmakers in                            the Rochester Area)

      United Way

 

Models/Training:

      Bogota Model for Cell Churches (See Stockstill & Cho)                    Center for Experiential Psychotherapy (includes dance workshops, social

worker, vocational counselor, holistic health counselor, drug and

alcohol counselor, massage therapist, etc.)

Christian Medical and Dental Society, Psychiatry Division

      Dartmouth Medical Center (Kathleen Kovner Kline; importance of community)      Espiritu Cristi Counseling Center; (585) 325-1180; Lynne                               Hamilton x225, Eileen Hurley x114

      Francis Frangipane ²Building the Kingdom of God: Connecting for a Purpose.²

      Freedom Village

      Genesee Valley American Psychiatric Association

      Glide Memorial Church, Empowerment Seminars reaching inner city crack

addicts to prevent genocide)

      Rev. Douglass Fitch dfitch@glide.org, 415 674 6090

      Candace Snyder csnyder@glide.org  (415) 674 6011

Greater Rochester Community of Churches

David Larson, M.D. Psychiatrist researching Christianity and Psychiatry

National Alliance for the Mentally IL (585) 413-1593

Search Institute (Peter Benson) http://www.search-institute.org/

Relevant Research, References:

 

(To be completed)