Publications Help Providers and Parents Recognize When A Child Needs Assistance
Philadelphia, PA (October 19, 2009) – Two new, county-specific behavioral health resource guides are now available for child serving professionals in Pottstown. The guides, for use with children who are uninsured or enrolled in Medical Assistance and CHIP, are published by Public Citizens for Children and Youth (PCCY), the region’s leading child advocacy organization.
Geared to children from birth through age five, ‘A Guide for Early Care and Education Professionals in the Pottstown Area’ helps child care workers understand proper social and emotional development in children, and how to recognize if a child needs developmental or behavioral help. The ‘Guide to Outpatient Behavioral Health Services for the Pottstown Area’s Children and Adolescents’ is for children and adolescents ages 6 through 18. Written in an easy to understand Q & A format, the publications are distributed to child care coalitions, health professionals, pediatricians, children’s hospitals, schools and legislators. They include tips for correcting problematic behaviors and how providers can talk to parents if these patterns continue.
The need for compiling behavioral health information into single source publications arose several years ago in response to the large volume of phone calls coming into PCCY’s Child Health Watch Helpline from parents, guardians, school nurses and counselors seeking direction for dealing with children needing evaluations, insurance and services, says Roxy Woloszyn, PCCY’s Behavioral Health Coordinator. PCCY assists by facilitating access to health care services children are entitled to and can even help enroll kids in public health insurance programs where eligible.
The guides include strategies for providers to use for approaching parents when a child is consistently disrupting the child care environment, Woloszyn notes. “Telling a parent that their child might need behavioral help is potentially a touchy situation. We give them the tools they need to help parents find behavioral health supports for their children.”
PCCY offers free training on accessing developmental and behavioral health resources to service providers and those working with children at their child care program or school location. The two new guides join previously published Philadelphia, Delaware, Bucks and Montgomery county editions. Copies of the Behavioral Health Resource guides can be obtained by contacting PCCY at 215.563.5848 x35.
تأسست عام 1980 ، وهي مؤسسة Public Citizens for Children and Youth (PCCY) مكرسة لتحسين الحياة وفرص الحياة للأطفال في وادي ديلاوير. من خلال المناصرة المدروسة والمستنيرة ، والتعليم المجتمعي ، ومشاريع الخدمات المستهدفة ، وتحليل الميزانية والسياسات ، تسعى PCCY إلى حماية أطفال المنطقة والتحدث عنها. PCCY هي منظمة مستقلة غير ربحية.