The two-year study of more than 6,500 American kids, ages 10 to 14, also found that teens who are exposed to alcohol-fueled movies are more likely to progress to binge drinking (five or more drinks in a row) HealthDay reports.
Study findings show that the proportion of kids who started drinking alcohol more than doubled from 11 percent to 25 percent, and the proportion of those who started binge drinking tripled from 4 percent to 13 percent.
Teens being exposed to movies that feature alcohol use led to 28 percent of kids drinking alcohol and of those teens, 20 percent moved on to binge drinking, noted the survey. Researchers also underscored that the association was not only seen with movie characters who drank on-screen, but also with alcohol product placement throughout the movies.
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Valentines for Vets project celebrates role of art therapy in treatment
Rosecrance patients and staff produced more than 120 hand-made cards for veterans on Valentine’s Day.
ROCKFORD, IL – Patients receiving inpatient treatment at Rosecrance’s adult campus on Harrison Avenue worked on their own recovery while reaching out to thank veterans who otherwise might be forgotten on Valentine’s Day.
The project began when recreational therapists at the campus read about an initiative started by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to reach out to patients in VA medical centers. The VA promotes the annual salute to veterans and encourages civilians to volunteer at the hospitals, visit vets and create cards of appreciation.
Rosecrance patients and staff produced more than 120 hand-made cards for the effort. Some were presented to vets receiving care through Rosecrance, and the rest were delivered to the VFW Post in Loves Park, which participated in the federal program to distribute the cards.
A patient wrote this message inside one of the colorful cards: “Thank you for your service to our country. You are in our thoughts and prayers.You bless my life with your courage to fight for our freedom. I wish you nothing but love this year.”
The project hit home at Rosecrance, which offers a treatment track for veterans with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders. In addition, Rosecrance manages programs that provide transitional housing for homeless veterans in need of mental health services.
Jada Miller, art therapist at the Harrison Campus, said the project created an opportunity for patients to talk about the personal sacrifice of loved ones who had served in the military. The project also sparked conversation about freedom from addiction and the value of a healthy lifestyle, she said.
“Projects like Valentines for Veterans give patients an opportunity to show their gratitude for the things in life they may not have thought about during their active addiction,” Miller said. “It gives them a chance to look at the bigger picture in sobriety, while also feeling a sense of pride in helping others.”
In general, art therapy gives patients tools to help them better understand their own motivations and behaviors, she said.
“Patients take a metaphoric look at themselves, their future goals, current road blocks, subconscious thoughts and current feelings,” Miller said. “Patients come to embrace learning about themselves and their recovery in a visual way.”
Nationally, Therapeutic Recreation Month, annually observed in February, brings attention to how such therapy can improve quality of life, increase independence and promote health and wellness.
Rosecrance embraces these concepts through nationally recognized Experiential Therapies programs at the adolescent and adult campuses. Keri Fager supervises the Experiential Therapies Department at the Harrison Campus. Skills patients learn in treatment can help them sustain recovery when they go home, she said.
“We specifically help them to explore the benefits of leisure, physical activity, and relaxation skills through learning yoga and other meditation techniques, as well as teaching the connection between wellness and recovery,” Fager said.
Contact:
Judy Emerson
Director of Communications
Rosecrance Health Network
1021 N. Mulford Road
Rockford, IL 61107
815.387.5605 (office); 815.262.4685 (cell)
Email: jemerson@rosecrance.org
About Rosecrance
Rosecrance is a private not-for-profit organization offering behavioral health services for more than 14,000 children, adolescents, adults and families each year. Rosecrance provides addiction treatment through inpatient and outpatient programs in Rockford, IL, and services at six satellite offices in Chicagoland. In addition, Rosecrance offers community mental health services in Rockford and Belvidere. The organization was founded in 1916.
Rosecrance's Reach FY2011 Annual Report Edition published
Rosecrance’s Reach FY2011 Annual Report Edition has published this week.
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Rosecrance CEO: Respect roots, embrace future
Rosecrance leads the way in behavioral health
Note: This article appears in the FY2011 Annual Report edition of Reach, which publishes later this week.
We measure everything we do against the yardstick of Rosecrance’s almost-100 year history.
Not that we’re opposed to change — far from it. Rosecrance has a tradition of evolving to meet the demands of society at a given time while anticipating the future.
What I mean is that we never forget our roots. We don’t grow for the sake of growth. We grow in response to the compassionate mission and values of our organization to address unmet needs in the community. As I look back on Fiscal Year 2011 and ahead to 2012, I can say with confidence that the tremendous changes we’ve experienced and those we anticipate are true, in spirit, to the legacy of our founders, Dr. James and Fannie Rosecrance.
Dr. Rosecrance, who established his practice in New Milford to serve soldiers returning from the Civil War, surely would appreciate our new program to treat veterans with co-occurring substance use and mental health disorders. The Rosecrances most likely would understand the thinking behind the groundbreaking merger between Rosecrance and the former Janet Wattles Center. Our combined operations allow Rosecrance to better meet community needs.
As to the future, we took an important step forward through a new partnership with Crusader Community Health. We have “embedded” a licensed mental health counselor at Crusader to help primary care providers serve patients who come in for physical ailments but who also may need behavioral health services. This kind of integrated care is the wave of the future.
I marked a personal milestone in May at my 40th anniversary with Rosecrance. Sometimes I wonder where the years have gone. I was one of 14 staff members taking care of 24 boys with behavior problems back in 1971. Now, Rosecrance is nearing 600 staff serving more than 13,000 individuals each year.
So much has changed. Yet, the span of four decades disappears for me when I see the patients come into treatment for addiction or mental health crises. Their faces and their demeanor reflect the same distress and the same needs we saw back in the 1970s.
We are still here to serve with compassion and with quality. We might alter how and where we deliver care from decade to decade, but our mission of providing help, hope and the best opportunity for lasting recovery will not change — regardless of what challenges we face in the coming year.
This is our purpose, as we all go forward, with the grace of God, one day at a time.
- Philip W. Eaton, President/CEO
Behavioral healthcare means services for addiction and mental health
Note: This article appears in the FY2011 Annual Report edition of Reach, which publishes later this week.
Rosecrance now one of the most comprehensive behavioral health networks in Illinois
We now pronounce you Behavioral Healthcare.
The union of addiction treatment and mental health services places Rosecrance at the leading edge of the industry and positions the organization to offer patients the best in integrated care.
The category of “behavioral health” may be unfamiliar to some people, but it is the new terminology for the services Rosecrance delivers at all of its campuses.
In addition, the term best describes a more holistic approach to wellness that recognizes the importance of behavioral health to physical health.
The merger of Janet Wattles Center into Rosecrance makes the organization one of the most comprehensive behavioral health networks in Illinois. That bodes well for patient care, said Philip W. Eaton, Rosecrance President/CEO.
“True integrated care occurs when behavioral health needs are not necessarily relegated to stand-alone organizations,” Eaton said. “Our goal over the coming year is to offer ‘any-door access’ to services at our campuses as we continue to integrate services.”
When complete, any-door access should allow new patients entering through the front door at any Rosecrance campus to receive the behavioral health services they need. Inroads have been made in that direction. Addiction treatment services soon will be offered at the Ware Center, the renamed mental health center in downtown Rockford.
Recognizing the growing need for treatment of people with dual diagnoses of mental illness and substance abuse, Rosecrance opened a new inpatient unit in February at the Harrison adult campus to serve these patients. Across the organization, clinical staff members report a growing number of patients with co-occurring disorders.
A report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that by the year 2020, mental illness and addiction will surpass physical diseases as major causes for disability around the world.
On an encouraging note, national healthcare reform and parity legislation should open doors for patients who seek treatment for behavioral health issues.
The National Advisory Mental Health Council reports positive outcomes for individuals who receive appropriate care. For instance, the Council reports these success rates, by behavioral health category: 80 percent for bipolar disorder; 65-80 percent for major depression; 60 percent for schizophrenia; 70 percent for addiction.
From a positive perspective, Eaton said, behavioral health should be viewed as the desired outcome, not how individuals begin their relationship with Rosecrance.
“We start with broken people struggling with their place in life, whether from addiction or mental illness,” Eaton said. “Our staff is motivated by a belief in the human spirit to heal. We see it daily in what we call the miracle of recovery.”
An update on parity
Rosecrance Health Network played a central role in parity legislation that was passed by the 2011 Illinois General Assembly and signed into law by Gov. Pat Quinn in August.
The new law echoes federal legislation that prohibits insurance companies from discriminating against people who seek treatment for mental health or substance use disorders.
Renée Popovits, general counsel for RHN, championed parity legislation on the national and state levels, and she played a key role in drafting the state bill that eventually became law.
“The issue is simple: Behavioral healthcare is primary healthcare,” Rosecrance President/CEO Philip Eaton wrote in a Rockford Register Star guest column.
February is Therapeutic Recreation Month
February is Therapeutic Recreation Month at Rosecrance. Along with improving quality of life, therapeutic recreation also has many other benefits:
1. To promote and enhance quality of life 2. To offer activities that are meaningful to each client 3. To enhance or maintain cognitive abilities 4. To enhance or maintain physical abilities 5. To promote emotional and psychosocial well-being 6. To provide opportunity for socialization 7. To offer opportunity for creative expression 8. To offer opportunity for decision making, choice, and responsibility 9. To offer opportunity for spiritual expression 10. To offer solace and relaxation 11. To provide opportunity for fun, pleasure, and enjoyment 12. To offer opportunity to share common interests, cultures, and experiences 13. To promote independence and decreased learned helplessness 14. To provide opportunity to learn new skills, adapt old skills, and enjoy new leisure experiences
January edition of the Rosecrance enewsletter available
The January edition of the Rosecrance enewsletter is now available. This month, we’re highlighting our progress in integrating behavioral healthcare with primary healthcare through a groundbreaking partnership with Crusader Community Health. The newsletter also includes information on giving to Rosecrance, upcoming trainings, news and more!
The office is one of six Rosecrance offices in Chicagoland that provide free, confidential consultations and assessments for anyone struggling with substance abuse.
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Rosecrance partners with Crusader in effort toward integrated care
Rosecrance’s partnership with Crusader Community Health was featured in the Rockford Register Star.
A new partnership between Rosecrance and Crusader Community Health signals important progress toward integrating behavioral health and primary health care to better serve the comprehensive needs of patients.
Rosecrance has embedded a mental health counselor at Crusader’s clinic on West State Street in Rockford to take on-the-spot referrals for mental health services from nurse practitioners and doctors who see patients for their medical issues. The next step is for Crusader to assign a staff member to the Ware Center to serve clients who go there for services but whose overall health could benefit from primary care services. Crusader officials say they intend to expand the program soon.
Will Holm, a licensed clinical social worker for Rosecrance, is the first staff to be assigned to the program full time. Holm sees up to a dozen Crusader patients daily for mental health assessments or to provide solution-focused brief therapy for conditions such as stress or anxiety. When necessary, Holm has immediate access to the psychiatrists at the Ware Center to consult on a patient’s medication needs. He can make referrals to the Center for individuals with severe mental illness in need of ongoing services.
The arrangement exemplifies a national trend toward integrated care, which means treating the whole person. The collaboration for what is being called “bi-directional care” is among less than a handful of such programs in the state.
“For so long, behavioral health services have been kept at arm’s length from primary care,” Rosecrance President and CEO Philip Eaton said. “Think of how much better we can serve patients who enter the doors at Crusader or Rosecrance if we truly listen to them and assess their emotional needs right alongside their physical health needs. This is very important to the continuum of care in our community.”
Research has shown that individuals with severe mental illness live an average of 25 years less than the average for the rest of the population. That alarming statistic is one of the driving forces behind the collaboration between Crusader and Rosecrance.
The patient referrals to Holm at Crusader are entirely voluntary. Crusader staff members report minimal patient resistance to seeing Holm and talking about their possible mental health needs.
“The demand is greater than we’d anticipated,” said Mark Kendall, Crusader’s chief operating officer. “Our primary care providers barely have time to diagnose the physical needs and a mental health diagnosis takes even longer.”
Contact:
Judy Emerson
Director of Communications
Rosecrance Health Network
1021 N. Mulford Road
Rockford, IL 61107
815.387.5605 (office); 815.262.4685 (cell)
jemerson (at) rosecrance.org
About Rosecrance
Rosecrance is a private not-for-profit organization offering behavioral health services for more than 14,000 children, adolescents, adults and families each year. Rosecrance provides addiction treatment through inpatient and outpatient programs in Rockford, IL, and services at six satellite offices in Chicagoland. In addition, Rosecrance offers community mental health services in Rockford and Belvidere. The organization was founded in 1916.
