A Rural Mental Health Delivery System
Abstract
The Four Corners Community Mental Health Center, located in southeastern Utah, was established in March 1972 to begin the difficult task of bringing compre hensive community mental health services to a vast, sparsely populated multiethnic region whose residents had no previous experience with mental health programs. The staff, facing obstacles such as long distances between patients' homes, cultural barriers, and a mistrust of mental health programs, set up a diverse delivery system using two central offices, nine satellite clinics, and a psychiatric wing at a general hospital in Price. Iii 197ı3 the center appliedfor and received a construction grant to build a five-bed psychiatric wing at tile hospital. Outreach workers and indigenous volunteers help bridge the cultural barriers and take the services to the people.
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