Re: What special services to ask for?

[Guest guest]

Hi a,

Thanks so much for responding.

We have put in an official request for AB 3632 services. (For those out of

California, this is the name given to the mental health services that much be

provided to kids meeting certain criteria in California.)

Unfortunately the County won't pay for the residential part of treatment as

we made the request a few days after, rather than before, we had to get her

into an out of state intensive OCD teen treatment program. (Hopefully our

insurance will cover most of it.)

The County mental health person will be at our next IEP meeting, and we'll

have one when our daughter returns home -- in the next few weeks.

What kinds of services might we be able to get? What would be useful? Of

course she'll next an Exposure/Response therapist, but I wouldn't trust

anyone the County might provide. What could we ask for in terms of help with

school? Do you think having someone come into the home to help with ERT

sessions might be a reasonable request?

Stanford does have a once a week teen OCD group, and so that might work out

well. I don't think that we have any other potential supports in place

besides an individual therapist (who we still haven't decided upon).

A " partial day program " was what was suggested as best, but I don't think

that sort of thing exists for high school age kids in the Bay Area.

Thanks for your thoughts. (By the way, we have a special ed attorney who we

talk to but who will stay in the background unless really needed.)

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> Subject: Re: Bay Area of S.F. (Peninsula)

>

> I believe there is an OCD support group in the peninsula area that the OCD

> foundations web site listed, the members might be a good resourse.We also

> hired a child advocate[we live in the east bay] who attended the IEP with

> us

> and knew the right things to ask for. One thing she asked for was approval

> of

> an AB 3632 school based program. This provides individual and family

> counseling as well as several other services. Ours was Contra CostaCounty

> Mental health services . The reason we wanted it was because it covers our

> daughter who is 7 and in 1st grade until she graduates from high school. If

>

> she needs residential or special day schooling, it is paid for by the

> county.

> The counseling does not specialize in OCD so we were not interested in

> those

> services.Maybe our advocate may know one in your area if you are interested

> i

> will give you the phone number. a Cronin

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Unless the therapist is knowledeable in ERP I don't know if i'd trust them

being the quinea pig, although you could always meet the person first and see

how open they are to learning. I think tutoring, social skills and life

skills would be helpful. I looked into the program your daughter is at, and

unfortunately no one has programs for children as young as my daughter[7].

My daughters school provides 45min a day tutoring in math and reading, a

social skills group 1x week.The county offered family counseling and

individual but as i mentioned, i did not feel comfortable with that. We have

an appt. on Jan 8th with Margo Tinneman at Stanford to have Kendall evaluated

as nothing has semed to help her. I recently reviewed information that leads

me to believe that she has Pandas OCD. good luck! keep me posted! a