MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLNESS
Appendix A: Budget History and Impact
Audience: Budget Committee, PRBC, and Administrators
Purpose: This analysis describes your history of budget requests from the previous two years
and the impacts of funds received and needs that were not met. This history of documented
need can both support your narrative in Section A and provide additional information for Budget
Committee recommendations.
Instructions: Please provide the requested information, and fully explain the impact of the
budget decisions.
ESTIMATES HAVE BEEN PROVIDED. DEAN OF COUNSELING IS IN CHARGE OF THE BUDGET
2011-12
2011-12
2012-13
2012-13
Category
Budget
Budget
Budget
Budget
Requested
Received
Requested
Received
Classified Staffing (# of positions)
Supplies & Services
Technology/Equipment
Other -- MFT Interns (Stipend)
10,000.00
5,000.00
14,000.00
5,000.00
.50 FTE MH Counselor
@37,696.00 @37,696.00 @42,408.00 @37,696.00
(licensed)
TOTAL
1. How has your investment of the budget monies you did receive improved your Service Area
Outcomes? When you requested the funding, you provided a rationale. In this section, assess if the
anticipated positive impacts you projected have, in fact, been realized.
A .50 FTE Counselor was requested, which, in essence, took the place of one Non-licensed Mental
Health MFT Internship stipend slot. Given the fact that the types of issues our students present can be
better served with a Licensed MFT/Counselor, who is an adjunct counselor who was previously an MFT
Intern with Chabot, allows for immediate response (part time) for crisis intervention in the health center
at a more experienced level. General crisis support, faculty consultation, referrals, MFT MH Intern
Supervision and training, et.al. is provided by the MH Clinical Supervisor who is located in Building 700,
and responds to Health Center crisis and requests as well.
2. What has been the impact of not receiving some of your requested funding? How has your ability to
serve the college and our students been impacted, or safety compromised?
Mental Health Counseling is a profession that has very stringent guidelines and laws in regards to
consumer protection, safety, quality of services, office space, licensed supervision of Counselor Interns,
marketing of services, record keeping, and more. The more information and training we can provide to
the students and campus, overall, the potential for emergency/crisis situations is reduced. With more
dedicated staff, more programs and services can be provided.
Our Mental Health& Wellness Services Program is an integral partner with the Chabot Student Health
Center where health services are provided to our students on campus. While the Health Center Director
is in charge of the health program; my role and function is the Mental Health Clinical Supervisor and
Program Director for the mental health program and services provided on campus.
The Mental Health counseling office is located within the Health Center and allows for immediate triage
services when needed. It is an extremely successful partnership maintained over the past 6+ years. The
Health Center Director's program reviews over the last few years has requested and indicated the need
for an expanded workspace in order to serve the increasing student demands. Our request is in concert
with the SHC requests, however, specifically we will require an additional office as well as a one-way
mirror installed for supervisory observation/training purposes. Two offices, side by side would allow for
installation of the mirror. Without it, listening to cassette tapings of hour long counseling sessions is the
only method I am left with for supervisory evaluation and training.
An additional office, dedicated to Mental Health Counseling, was requested. It is required in order to
increase appointment service hours for Mental Health Counseling. Two Counselors are presently
sharing the one office that is now available in the Health Center and there are no available office hours
for another Counselor presently. Further, the Health Center has reduced the number of hours open in
the evening, which further reduces the possibility to add an additional Mental Health Intern in the
present limited office space situation. Confidentiality is mandated for mental health counseling by law.
(The front-desk counseling model, which has been extremely successful for academic counseling, since
the budget cuts, is strictly prohibited for mental health services.)
Presently there are approximately 14,000 students. The negative impact of not receiving requests for
additional office and an additional MFT Mental Health Intern is as follows:
Given the huge ratio of students who need mental health counseling service, the 21 hours per week for
direct student contact, between the two part-time Counselors, is prohibitive and restrictive. Students
who are paying rising "health fees" are not receiving the benefit of service.
Contact hours (at 1 hour per student in the Health Center) is as follows:
.50 FTE Mental Health Counselor
16 hrs. per week (3 hrs week admin = 13 students avail.
MFT Mental Health Intern
10 hrs. per week (2 hrs week admin = 8 students avail
Total:
21
Record keeping, treatment planning, and case management/progress notes are also a requirement,
therefore, there are hours per week used for that purpose.
Group Counseling allows for multiple students to be served within an 1.5 hour period. However, most
students prefer, and receive one-to-one counseling. With the restrictions described above, the services
have been severely restricted.