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Introducing the Families Together Parenting Group for parents involved with foster care

Lee Carlson Center for Mental Health and Well-being is excited to introduce an engaging 8 week group for biological parents of children involved in the foster care system that is designed to coach parents in developing and enhancing their parenting and relational skills while building and rebuilding strong healthy bonds and communication with their children.

The group will also provide an opportunity to get and give support as parents and work towards hope and healing together peer to peer.

At Lee Carlson Center we honor the dignity, worth and potential in every parent and admire the uniqueness of every child.  Parenting can be challenging. We coach parents along their path in achieving their goals as parents of their children.

To be eligible, parents will have children who are:

  • enrolled in the agency’s Intensive Treatment in Foster Care (ITFC) program,
  • enrolled in the agency’s Children’s Therapeutic Services and Supports (CTSS) program or,
  • enrolled in individual, group or family therapy with Lee Carlson Center.

Additionally, parents can be referred by a sponsoring agency such as a county or be enrolled themselves in individual or family therapy with Lee Carlson Center.

Contact our Central Intake Line at 763-780-3036 to learn more.

Get the Families Together – Parent Group Flyer

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Seeking an Experienced Trauma-focused Therapist

Seeking an Experienced Trauma-focused Therapist

Lee Carlson Center for Mental Health & Well-Being, a non-profit, primary provider of mental health services in the greater Twin Cities North Metro Region is recruiting an experienced Trauma-focused therapist to provide support to children and their families to assist in mitigating the effects of trauma and other concerns that impact children’s ability to form strong bonds and attachment with caregivers, peers and adults.

The ideal candidate will have experience coaching caregivers on how to best address challenging behavior and help build relational skill needed for successful age appropriate growth and development with attention to each child’s specific emotional needs and concerns.  The ideal candidate will be flexible enough to meet clients and caregivers wherever necessary including in their home, in their school, in the community or in the clinic and be experienced in providing support to individuals, the family, groups of children and parents and other service providers.  Both home office and site-based office arrangements may be available for the right candidate.

Independently licensed mental health professionals or qualified clinical trainees actively pursuing licensure in Minnesota in one of the following credentialed disciplines is required; LICSW, LPCC, LMFT, LP.

This position’s primary casework territory will include areas of Hennepin, Wright, Sherburne and Benton Counties.

Competitive salary and benefits: We are pleased to offer a variety of benefits.

To apply please send a resume and cover letter with interest to apply@leecarlsoncenter.org

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Lee Carlson Center Adds Critical Event Services Program to Resource Schools in Times of Crisis

Lee Carlson Center’s newest service program developed for schools is their Critical Event Services Program providing mental health related resource to schools during times of crisis.

The program is designed to assist schools with a variety of crisis related situations that arise and provide a critical support to administration, staff students and families.

“We’ve created this program in an effort to be proactive with school partners around planning for the inevitable crisis that could come up at any time within a school community,” said Lee Carlson Center CEO, Rob Edwards.

“Some schools have all the resources they need on hand to address crisis situations.  For those who don’t Lee Carlson Center can be a partner,” said Edwards.

Visit their website to learn more.  https://leecarlsoncenter.org/programs/criticaleventservices/

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Intensive Treatment in Foster Care now available throughout the twin cities metro area

Our ITFC program designed for youth living in #fostercare and their parents/caregivers is available across the greater twin cities metro area.

Call our intake line at 763-780-3036 for more information.

LEARN MORE ON OUR WEBSITE AT https://leecarlsoncenter.org/programs/intensive-treatment-foster-care/

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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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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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