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Creating a Mental Health Consultation Package for Community Agencies

Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.28.10.745

The author designed a consultation package for a community mental health center consultant to present to the relevant agencies and organizations in the community. The consultation package is designed to create a series of regularly scheduled voluntary group meetings that center on the discussion of a case or a particular topic. The package also includes a written agreement, an evaluation procedure, and a six-to eight-month free trial period. The steps for establishing a new consultative relationship and developing a consultation network are also outlined. By using those steps and the package, the author and his colleagues have successfully established consultation services with schools, with the welfare, probation, and police departments, and with organizations of physicians, nurses, and clergy.

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