The Discovery House
Northridge Medical Center
Challenges
Social Worker's role
Inter- Agency Collaboration
100
Becoming an alumni from Discovery House.
What is the Alumni Program?
100
Exceptional care of mothers and their newborns.
What is The Family Birth Center?
100
The difference in religion and mind, body and soul beliefs.
What is spiritual/cultural beliefs?
100
Sending updated emails, placing phone calls and newsletters between agencies.
What is means of communication?
100
A group of people with diverse characteristics who are linked by social ties, share common perspective, and engaged in joined action.
What is a community?
200

A process or period of time in which one abstains from or rids the body of toxic or unhealthy substances.

What is detox?
200

A stock or supply of materials, staff, and other assets that can be drawn on by a person or organization in order to function effectively.

What is a resource?
200

Covers the whole or a part of the risk of a person incurring medical expenses.

What is health insurance?
200
Agencies sitting together to discuss decisions and plans for their collaboration.
What is a meeting?
200

A set of connected things or parts forming a complex whole, in particular.

What is a subsystem?
300

A person seeking treatment at Discovery House.

What is substance abuse treatment?

300

A person addicted to drugs and/or alcohol.

What is a substance abuser?

300
Building rapport with a client.
What is trust?
300
Getting a person from one place to another.
What is transportation?
300

Both sectors have a say in decisions and planning.

What is Joint Decision Making and Administration?

400

Serving both male and female clients.

What is a co-ed center?

400

Offers baby, heart, family, and cancer care.

What is Northridge Medical Center?

400
Provided by doctors to help a person feel better, 2 to 3 x's a day with water.
What is prescription medication?
400
Sharing information about both facilities from one person to another.
What is educating?
400

"What's mine is yours, and what's yours is mine."

What is Combined Resources?

500

"We work together to make a plan work for you as a client"

What is an individual treatment plan?

500

One in one-hundred type of medical facility.

What is top 100 best hospitals?

500

The process of planning and exercising conscious control of time spent on specific activities, especially to increase effectiveness, efficiency or productivity.

What is time management?
500
Connecting with both agencies to support and present clients wants and needs in an intervention.
What is advocating?
500

We work together and presume positive intent from one another.

What is Mutual Trust?

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