Mountain Caregiver Resource Center
Services.
Family Consultation and Care Planning
Consultation is provided by trained professionals through home visits, telephone consultations, and office visits. Family Consultants assess problems and needs, explore care options, and provide information to caregivers and family members.
Specialized Information
A central source of information about brain disorders, care options, and services for families and professionals caring for individuals of brain impairment. Additional resources are available through our resource library including books, pamphlets, manuals, tapes, videotapes, DVDs, abstracts and bibliographies. Some of the areas covered in our lending library include the following:
- Aging
- Alzheimer’s disease
- Caregiving information
- Diagnosis and treatment
- Legal and financial options
- Long-term care system (levels of care)
- Mental health services for caregivers (counseling and stress management)
- Patient management
- Research overviews
If you need assistance finding or accessing resources, please contact us at 800-995-0878 or MCRC@csuchico.edu.
Support Groups
Monthly support groups are offered to allow those facing the difficult task of daily caregiving to benefit from interaction and support from other people in similar situations. Groups provide a supportive atmosphere to share experiences and ideas to ease the stress of caregiving.
For a current list of our Support Groups, please click here .
Respite Programs
Respite services alleviate the stress of caregiving and extend the family’s ability to provide care by providing services to the brain-impaired adult. Respite is available for in-home care, day care, short term or weekend care, and transportation to assist families in caring for an adult with a disabling health condition.
Types of Respite Services available:
In-Home: Provides companionship/supervision, homemaking, personal care or other in-home services.
24-hour care (out-of-home): Provides 24-hour care in an inpatient facility, foster or group care, or a community facility.
24-hour (in-home): Provides 24-hour live-in care or supervision in the home.
Retreat (caregiver focused): Provides out-of-home caregiver focused therapeutic and recreational activities in a retreat setting.
Adult Day Health Care: Provides therapeutic, social and health services in an organized group setting.
Training for Families and Professionals
Workshops are provided on a variety of topics for caregivers, family members and professionals. Topics may include stress management, legal and financial issues, diagnosis, treatments, and long-term care planning.
“Family focused” education and training includes community education events or family training series designed to help families understand the nature of brain disorders. This includes topics like how to cope with emotional issues, caregiving problems, management of day-to-day care, planning for future legal/financial needs, locating available resources, and caring for the caregiver.
Professional training includes presentations at professional conferences and large-scale events oriented to professionals and/or the general public. Examples for this category include training for service providers and conducting public forums that explore the special needs of our clients.
Family Focused and Professional Training activities include the following:
Conferences/Seminars: These events are for caregivers or professionals serving caregivers in workshop, symposium or roundtable formats.
In-service Sessions: Mountain Caregiver Resource Center provides short programs on topics relating to brain impairments conducted for staff of community agencies. While the program usually includes some orientation to Mountain Caregiver Resource Center, the main focus centers on the topical area of concern by the community agency. Each session consists of 1-2 hours in duration and is presented by trained staff or outside experts.
Public Presentations: Consist of speeches, lectures, and panel discussions given at conferences, community forums and colleges or graduate school level classes. The duration of these presentations varies based on each request. These presentations are made by Mountain Caregiver Resource Center staff.
For information about upcoming events, please visit our Training and Events page by clicking here.
Short-term Counseling
Short-term counseling is available through private licensed counselors for caregivers and family members who need assistance with problem identification and solution exploration.
Legal and Financial Consultation
Personal consultation with an attorney on estate and financial planning, conservatorship, powers of attorney, and other related matters.
Some services may not always be available. For more information, please contact us at:
Mountain Caregiver Resource Center
800-995-0878 or (530) 229-0878
MCRC@csuchico.edu
