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
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
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:
Help Me Grow: https://helpmegrownational.org/
Oregon Post Adoption Resource Center (ORPARC): https://www.orparc.org
CARES NW: http://www.caresnw.org/