Thesis
Community-based master's project: creating an interactive asset map of behavioral health and substance abuse treatment providers in Philadelphia
Master of Public Health (M.P.H.), Drexel University
2018
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17918/D82082
Abstract
From previous studies and courses throughout my graduate career in public health, I have learned that access to mental health care and substance abuse disorders are both significant public health issues throughout the United States. For my Community-Based Masters Project, I researched the availability of non-individual mental health care providers and addiction services in the city of Philadelphia. I was surprised to see the abundance of community, multi-location, and hospital-based services and I did not realized that The Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual DisAbilities Services already has a compiled list of resources in the past. Using the Community Behavioral Health (CBH) inventory as a guide and findings from own Internet-based searches, I compiled an interactive map that illustrates mental health and addiction service providers in the city, along with important information about the providers and the services offered. The basic idea for the map was modeled for a local Philadelphia organization that works to address parental mental health. This paper provides information about the prevalence of behavioral health conditions in the United States and the city of Philadelphia, what organizations and programs around the country and city are doing to address these conditions, and the process I went through to create the asset map of Philadelphia providers. I discuss how the map can be used and why it is useful, plans for its future, and what I learned through this nearly year-long process of working with Child and Family Connections of Philadelphia.
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Details
- Title
- Community-based master's project
- Creators
- Alexandra Vene - DU
- Contributors
- Nancy Epstein (Advisor) - Drexel University (1970-)
- Awarding Institution
- Drexel University
- Degree Awarded
- Master of Public Health (M.P.H.)
- Publisher
- Drexel University; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Number of pages
- 29 pages
- Resource Type
- Thesis
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Dana and David Dornsife School of Public Health; Community Health and Prevention; Drexel University
- Other Identifier
- 8008; 991014632705804721