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John Austin Pena Memorial Center Case Study

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The John Austin Pena Memorial Center is a non-profit organization a part of the University of Texas Rio Grande valley school of medicine and The Hidalgo County Health Department have linked together to create a community driven clinic. The clinics mission is to provides quality care for adolescents, 12-18 year of age, who are at risk with medical and mental health issues such as ADHD and anger management, medical and appetitive drive disorders such as appetite for drugs, tobacco and alcohol. This is the first facility in the valley to provide specialty and primary care for at risk adolescents. The inter-professional team care model that’s offered the patients will interact with various professional in the fields of emotional health that includes physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, social workers, rehab counseling, nutritionist, speech therapist, educational psychology, PharmD and a clinic lab that saves time and …show more content…

There is no website set in place as of now. Patient can walk-in and be seen that same day. Services are for any youth between the ages of 12-18 undocumented or not. The community is informed of these times during the school presentation, health fairs and the juvenile probation staffs are aware also. The limitation on the time issue from what I have seen and identified that since school has started the youth have been not showing up to appointments. Appointment times conflict with school hours. Parents are not taking their children to appointments here because the school is giving them a hard time about the child missing school for an hour are two once a week to come here for therapy session. You would think since the schools want us to come and present on the services offered to help their students, that the youth being out of school for an hour would be understandable especially if the youth are in dire need of

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