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Register Now for AspireMN Facilitated Conversations with Field Experts

Lee Carlson Center is a proud member of AspireMN, an association that works to improve the lives of children, youth and families served by member organizations through support for quality service delivery, leadership development, and policy advocacy.

This month AspireMN is launching registration for Facilitated Conversations with Field Experts on issues pertaining to work with clients amid the Covid-19 pandemic.  Please consider connecting for this important series.

Two team members Matt Lindberg and Nicole Rohrer from Lee Carlson Center are being featured in the series.

Registration is now live.

Mindfulness for You and Your Clients
Thursday, May 28, noon – 1:00 pm
With Matt Lindberg, Lee Carlson Center for Mental Health and Wellbeing

What is Mindfulness? How can it be helpful? The session will focus on mindfulness practices that you can use with kids and parents.
Key words/concepts for this session include: experiential, problem solving, moving forward, developing your practice, and sharing resources.
REGISTER HERE: https://www.aspiremn.org/events/register.aspx?id=1382812

Supporting Telehealth Play Therapy with Young Children
Tuesday, June 2, noon – 1:00 pm
With Nicole Rohrer, Lee Carlson Center for Mental Health and Wellbeing

Learn strategies for conducting tele-play therapy sessions with young children and their parents. Discuss challenges and successes to utilizing tele-play therapy with clients. Create your own “cheat sheet” of activities to use with clients.
REGISTER HERE: https://www.aspiremn.org/events/register.aspx?id=1382814

 

Get Registration Information for AspireMN – Facilitated Conversations with Field Experts

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Keep Talking About Mental Health #GiveAtHomeMN Campaign Launched

We are all experiencing an unprecedented moment. So many of us are struggling with job loss, childcare, and uncertainty about the future. During this stressful and unsettling time, accessible mental health care is critical for our communities. Lee Carlson Center for Mental Health and Well-being has quickly adapted our mental health services to a telehealth format (phone and 2 way video) in order to continue providing the best treatment, while keeping clients and staff safe. We are maintaining our capacity to serve in order to:

  • Help parents learn to manage difficult child behaviors at home
  • Help students get connected to the social safety nets they now lack without school
  • Help those affected by domestic violence through trauma-informed therapies
  • Help provide meals to home bound adults with Serious and Persistent Mental Illness
  • Help provide virtual online support groups for those in need.
  • Help school staff understand and prepare for critical events that will affect them and their students

Lee Carlson Center has been serving the Greater Twin Cities community for over 40 years. We will continue to be here for our community through the current community health crisis and beyond.

You don’t need to wait for the mental health support you need today.  Call 763-780-3036 or visit leecarlsoncenter.org and follow us on facebook,  twitter, instagram and linkedin and #keeptalkingaboutmentalhealth

visit our GiveMN Campaign Page on https://www.givemn.org/story/Leecarlsoncenter

#GiveAtHomeMN

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Lee Carlson Center for Mental Health and Wellbeing Provides Accessible Care During COVID-19

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

April 8, 2020

Lee Carlson Center for Mental Health and Wellbeing Provides Accessible Care During COVID-19

For more than forty years the community mental health provider Lee Carlson Center for Mental Health and Well-being has served as a beacon of hope, healing and health in the twin cities north metro region of the state.

During the Covid-19 Pandemic Lee Carlson Center has moved all programs virtual and continues to connect with clients every day. “We’ve seen an increase in needs for support and the staff have been quick to act,” said CEO Rob Edwards. Lee Carlson Center’s team uses their telehealth platform to connect with adults, kids and families now. Edwards said it’s been engaging for parents and their children to do this in the comfort of their home at a time like this.

“Our Bridgeview Drop-in Center has gone virtual,” said Edwards. The meals Lee Carlson Center serves at no cost to clients who they call members, during a typical open day at the drop-in center have now gone on wheels, individually packed and delivered to adults with mental illness in their homes. “The support groups we offer have gone online too along with therapy and psychiatry,” Edwards said. “In fact, the agency has got as much to offer as it did before the community health crisis, and we are in contact with all our clients and taking new referrals,” he said.

The Agency’s Intensive Treatment in Foster Care Program and School-linked Mental Health programs have seen an increase in demand for telehealth support. Even our Domestic Abuse Programs continue to operate, said Edwards.
When individuals lack technology or internet access for sessions to take place via the 2-way video platform they can visit one of two clinics with sanitized telehealth stations or get authorization from their health plan to access typical services over the phone instead. More health plans have now relaxed restrictions on telephone support due to the crisis.

If an individual needs mental health support all they need to do is give the agency intake line a call at 763-780-3036.
“We believe there can be nothing more difficult than waiting for the mental health services you need today. That’s why our team works so hard to get individuals scheduled right away and eliminate all waitlists,” said Edwards.

If you don’t have health insurance Lee Carlson Center has sliding fee scale options and MNSure Navigators on staff who can help individuals sign up for coverage they may qualify for.

MORE ABOUT LEE CARLSON CENTER
Nearly 6,000 individuals receive their mental health services from the agency each year across clinics, in their homes, in schools or through their drop-in center. Now perhaps more than ever Lee Carlson Center is living up to the challenge of serving the twin cities. As an Essential Community Provider (ECP) Lee Carlson Center is the provider of choice for affordable mental health services for individuals regardless of their age and their families.

For more information or to secure a media interview regarding any of the agency’s programs please visit our website at www.leecarlsoncenter.org or contact the Chief Executive Officer, Rob Edwards at redwards@leecarlsoncenter.org

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Lee Carlson Center for Mental Health and Wellbeing Provides Accessible Care during COVID-19

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Lee Carlson Center for Mental Health and Well-being is Operating our Critical and Essential Services During the Ongoing Community Health Event.

4.3.2020

Lee Carlson Center for Mental Health and Well-being is Operating our Critical and Essential Services During the Ongoing Community Health Event.

We have the capacity to take new clients in all programs immediately!  Do you or a loved one need support?  We can provide mental health services via telehealth two-way on screen and telephonic means.  Contact us at 763-780-3036 to learn what benefits for coverage you have under your health plan.

We are reaching out to all our current clients and those with scheduled appointments to convert those appointments to telehealth and telephonic meetings.

Current Clients: Our team of Engagement Specialists is reaching out to check on your interest in various telehealth video and telephonic services we can offer you.

NEW Clients: Our team of Engagement Specialists can help check your eligibility for various telehealth video and telephonic services we can offer you. Many health plans are adding flexibility for telehealth and telephonic services as we speak and waiving requirements on the state level.

About Telehealth
These flexible innovations will allow us to continue to support you where you are at without you needing to leave home.  We know that this will in some ways initially be inconvenient, but we also hope it may be a safe and creative solution that turns out to be in the end very convenient.

Our talented staff has trained and prepared to deliver care in these new formats.

About Bridgeview Drop-in Center Operations
The Bridgeview drop-in center has converted virtual a virtual drop-in center model.  You can still schedule to meet virtually with our staff, attend virtual support groups or sign up for our mobile meal program for Bridgeview Members (please note: meal services are available as resources allow).

Sincerely,

Lee Carlson Center for Mental Health and Well-being

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Lee Carlson Center Turns to Telehealth

Beginning late last week Lee Carlson Center began moving all mental health programs and services virtual via two-way screen and telephonic means as a result of Covid19.  Regarding the change Rob Edwards, CEO of Lee Carlson Center said, “This move will help clients and staff stay safe during this community health crisis.”  He said that the agency’s team of therapists is trained and equipped to take new referrals and support anyone who reaches out for support.

The agency has a team of dedicated Engagement Specialist’s trained and ready to help callers use their health care benefits to access a number of alternatives to face to face in person care.  The intake line for all programs is one easy number to remember, 763-780-3036.  “We are actually reaching out to all our current clients directly to develop a plan for continued care with them,” said Edwards.

The agency has already seen commercial payers and state health plans be open to flexible treatment delivery.  Some pending decisions at a state level may even open options for telephonic care under the telehealth definition.

Edwards said that the Bridgeview Drop-in center located in Fridley serving adults with serious and persistent mental illness is closed for drop-in now but is keeping scheduled appointments including therapy and psychiatry, accepting new members and launching virtual drop-in center services including online support groups and a mobile meals program. “We are also seeking partners to help fund these innovative care delivery systems,” said Edwards.  “We can scale these programs in the community based on the financial resources that are available,” he said.

Lee Carlson Center is also developing basically furnished clean and sanitized Telehealth stations at it’s 4 treatment sites so that clients without technology have the option to tap in to a therapist using technology at those locations.  Once these are established Lee Carlson Center will do everything it can to maintain access throughout the community health crisis.  “We really hope to develop ways to connect with clients in the comfort of their own homes but we are also aware that some will not have the means to access our services in a way that works for them.  We will continue to be creative in finding solutions to overcome obstacles to delivering client care,” Edwards said.

Lee Carlson Center typically has the capacity to deliver 1000-1500 client encounter sessions per week.

To support the agency’s work visit www.leecarlsoncenter.org/give or email info@leecarlsonenter.org

 

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