Region V Core Team

 

Members:

Bill Williams .................. Family and Youth Counseling Agency

Clarice Raichel .............. NAMI

Julie Karimian ............... OMH

Julio Galan ................... Family and Youth Counseling Agency

Laurie Hebert ............... OAD

Mari Alfieri Harris .......... OAD (LITS Specialist)

Mary Richard-Land ........ OMH

Misty Kelly .................... Lake Charles Memorial Hospital

Phyllis Bennett .............. OMH

Susan Fry ..................... OMH

Carolyn Davis ............... OMH (LITS Specialist)
Sheryl Johnson ............. OAD
Debra LaVergne ........... OMH Consumer Affairs Specialist

 

 

Description:

Serves as the key decision-making body providing infrastructure for planning, development, and problem solving and assures appropriate administrative and operational oversight at the local level for all implementation activities.

 

 

Parishes Served:

Allen

Beauregard

Calcasieu

Jefferson Davis

Cameron

 

Goals:

  1. To create a shared vision built around processes and adaptations necessary to implement Louisiana Integrated Treatment Services.
  2. Identify service, administrative and policy gaps and either address regionally, or if needed, referred up the system to be resolved by the Behavioral Healthcare Taskforce.
  3. To address such issues as training needs, modifications of all clinical/counselor staff job descriptions to incorporate responsibility for providing integrated treatment, interagency support and training of supervisory staff, ongoing mechanisms for quality assurance, for resolving clinical issues, and utilization of all staff resources needed to provide integrated treatment.

 

Lake Charles / Region 5 Contact Information:

Cam L. Melville, Ph.D. - Facilitator
 

  Office: (337) 475-5462

 

  Department of Psychology

McNeese State University

Lake Charles, LA 70609

    Email: melville@mcneese.edu

Mari Alfieri Harris - LITS Specialist
 

  Office: (337) 475-4855

 

  3505 Fifth Ave.

Suite B

Lake Charles, LA 70609

 

 

Publications:

  ITTS policy (.PDF)

  Brief Treatment Manual (.PPT)

  Welcoming Policy (.PDF)

  ITTS Pre-Treatment Evaluation (.PDF)

  90-Day Post Treatment Evaluation (.PDF)

  LITS Case Review Staffing (.PDF)

  Personality Disorder Information (.PDF)

  Targeted Process Therapy Series (.PDF)

  Relaxation Module #4 (.PDF)

  Communication Module #5 (.PDF)

  Problem Solving Module #6 (.PDF)

  Stress Management Module #7 (.PDF)

  Anger Management Module #9 (.PDF)

  Loss / Opportunity Module #11 (.PDF)

 

 

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