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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A expansive assemblage study into Fresno County's Department of Behavioural Health uncovered a "lack of ceremonial grooming for tract clinicians" and revealed that caller prosecute clinicians are having to bargain their ain supplies to bash their jobs.
The revelations were successful a study released June 4 by Fresno County's Civil Grand Jury. The Department of Behavioural Health is tasked with helping Fresno County residents who request intelligence wellness and substance upset services, according to the report's authors.
The study details that tract clinicians, the radical who supply behavioral wellness services, are not being appropriately trained and alternatively constricted to "shadowing" much experienced workers. The study adds that the clinicians are gathering radical "in their homes, oregon different uncontrolled environments" and bash not cognize astir their clients' intelligence authorities oregon history.
The study besides reveals that tract supplies (such arsenic afloat stocked archetypal assistance kits oregon Narcan) are lacking, and erstwhile employees inquire absorption for much supplies, they bash not person a reply. In response, employees are adjacent purchasing their ain supplies.
The conception connected tract clinicians ends with the connection that employees are besides "not offered hands-on self-defense training."
In a effect to YourCentralValley.com, unit with the Fresno County Department of Behavioural Health accidental they are "committed to ensuring the information of its unit and providing the capable training, inheritance information, and caller supplies to each of its tract clinicians."
The section adds that a program to amended unit information and grooming volition beryllium provided successful its upcoming effect to the Civil Grand Jury.
