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Connecting Low-Income Families To Mental Health Services

The Role Of The Family Associate

NANCY M. KOROLOFF, PhD, is a professor of social work at Portland State University and served as principal investigator for the Family Connections Research and Demonstration Project.

Paul E. Koren

PAUL E. KOREN, PhD, is a research associate at the Regional Research Institute for Human Services, and research director at the Research and Training Center on Family Support and Children's Mental Health, Portland State University.

Debra J. Elliott

DEBRA J. ELLIOT, MA, is a project manager at the Regional Research Institute, Portland State University. She is completing her doctorate in clinical child psychology through Ohio State University.

Barbara J. Friesen

BARBARA J. FRIESEN, PhD, is a professor of social work and the director of the Research and Training Center on Family Support and Children's Mental Health at Portland State University.

The family associate is a parent without professional mental health training who acts as a system guide to low-income families whose children have been referred to mental health services through the Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment program. The family associate provides emotional support, information about mental health services and community resources, and directs assistance, such as help with transportation and child care. Based on the belief that parent-to-parent support can be a powerful tool in overcoming the barriers to accessing services, the family associate role has been successfully implemented in three counties in Oregon. The family associate role and its implementation, characteristics of the families who participated, and the implications for introducing this role into traditional mental health service systems are described.

Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, Vol. 2, No. 4, 240-246 (1994)
DOI: 10.1177/106342669400200406


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