Sunday, January 24, 2010

Chapter 4: Agency in Policy Turmoil


In this case, Dr. Breeze built an "non-traditional" agenda that applied to both the patients and staff of the San Marcos Community Health Center. He used the tasks of problem analyzing by realizing that there was a problem with the methods that the original staff used such as long term therapy, supervisions, and he also suspected that a few of the staff members were letting the client's race or ethnicity get in the way of them being able to provide adequate services and case management. He proposed that the long term therapy, long waiting lists, and supervision areas were unnecessary. He implemented an advisory board that consisted of people from the community, extended staff hours, and questioned the chief of police about the way emotionally ill people were being handled. I believe that Dr. Breeze was trying to implement "responsible change" within the center. He wanted to invent ideas, he felt would be beneficial to the patients.

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