Social Work

Social Work

Background: Social workers partner with our physicians at the DCH and Westside pediatric clinics. You will spend one half-day with a social worker from the pediatric clinics and we will try to pair you with someone at your continuity clinic site. During this time, you will receive insights on the many community resources available to families and their children and learn more about the role of social workers in clinical medicine.

DCH

Juliet Herzberg herzberj@ohsu.edu

Brittany Salgado penaflor@ohsu.edu

DCH Westside

Meaghan Mayeda Adkins, LCSW

503.418.2495

mayedam@ohsu.edu

Robin Willin

503.418.2402

willins@ohsu.edu


Westside Address: 15220 NW Laidlaw, Suite 100 Portland, OR 97229 (The clinic is behind Walgreens)

Westside ph: (503) 418-2000

Possible activities & scenarios to discuss:

1. During the clinic visit, your patient says that her partner is losing his job and wonders how to apply for insurance for her children. She works at a local store, making $30,000/year, but doesn’t have employer-sponsored insurance. Would her children qualify for one of the Oregon Medicaid programs when her husband loses his insurance? What are the names for the Oregon Medicaid Programs?


2. Choose a family and create a foster care passport using the dot phrase: .fostercarepassport

Doernbecher General Pediatrics is a part of a community of clinics in the Portland Metro area that are devoted to excellence in the care of children in foster and kinship care known as an “Every Step Clinic” (sometimes referred to as a foster care medical home)


Readings/references:

1) Homelessness

a) Families in our clinic often use this agency and the website covers some facts and statistics. http://www.pdxhfs.org/

b) OPB articles:

How Portland Tried, And Failed, To Provide A Bed For All Its Homeless Children

Oregon school districts, nonprofits work to re-engage, empower youth who are homeless


c ) Providing Care for Children and Adolescents Facing Homelessness and HousingInsecurity

d) Data on Child Homelessness

2) Foster Care

a) AAP Conference Archives - Foster Care Youth and Alumni Panel--

b) Learn More About Models of Care for Foster Care Youth in Other States--

c) Teds Talks – Explore Foster Care

RethinkingFoster Care:

Life in a Trash Bag: Restoring Dignity to Foster Children

d) Family First Preservation Services Act - DOFA

Family First Preservation Services Act - OR Legislature

e) Learn More About CHAMPS Campaign – Children Need Amazing Parents--http://fosteringchamps.org/

f) Think Out Loud Podcasts--

Pay particular attention to...

  • "What we can learn from child welfare class action lawsuits"

  • "Fixing foster care this legislative session"

  • "Childcare in Oregon is expensive and hard to find"

  • "Youth villages helping families in crisis"

g) 10 things to know about foster care

h) Family Handout Trauma Guide.

I) AAP Healthy Foster Care Trauma Guide:

J) Additional websites: