[Sbbh] FW: Resource update: La Esperanza Clinic

[Marsha Broussard]

FYI

 

From: Sarah Hoffpauir 
Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 9:32 AM
To: Sarah Hoffpauir
Cc: sehoffpauir at yahoo.com; Marsha Broussard; Colleen Kudla
Subject: Resource update: La Esperanza Clinic

 

Called La Esperanza (hope), the clinic is led by Dr. Bert Quintana, a
professor in the Department of Psychiatry at LSUHSC and director of
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Residents Training and the Special
Studies Evaluation Service.

 

LSU Health Sciences Center School of Medicine at New Orleans 

La Esperanza offers hope to children 

 

Responding to a need for more mental-health services in our area,
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center started a
Child/Adolescent Joint Enhancement Network clinic at the New Orleans
Adolescent Hospital in July. A few months later, a Mental Health
Psychiatry clinic for Latino children was initiated at the same Uptown
site, 210 State St., the Times-Picayune reported this week
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Called La Esperanza (hope), the clinic is led by Dr. Bert Quintana, a
professor in the Department of Psychiatry at LSUHSC and director of
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Residents Training and the Special
Studies Evaluation Service.

 

"The children seen at the clinic undergo psychiatric and psychological
evaluations and counseling, therapy, or psychopharmacotherapy when
needed," said Quintana, who was 6 when he left Cuba and moved to the
United States. He has been in New Orleans for the past 10 years and has
published more than 50 articles on child and adolescent psychiatric
topics.

 

Patients at the clinic range in age from 5 to 18, but most are 7 to 12
and have minimal or no health insurance coverage. They are seen free of
charge, but Quintana said that "it is our intention to secure funds so
that this clinic for Spanish-speaking children and adolescents can
expand and exist beyond the life of the Red Cross grant."

 

There are four psychiatry residents at Clinica La Esperanza and one of
them speaks Spanish.

 

"Our referrals come from pediatricians and the counselors in the public
and charter schools," Quintana said. In addition to taking care of the
children and adolescents, the clinic works with Latino families who have
trouble recognizing mental health problems in their children, he said.
Educational programs in Spanish are provided to parents of the children
undergoing treatment as well as at to schools where the children are
enrolled.

 

 

 

Sarah E. Hoffpauir, LCSW-BACS

Program Director

Behavioral Health Action Network 

Louisiana Public Health Institute (LPHI)

1515 Poydras, Suite 1200, New Orleans, LA 70112

504-301-9845 direct

504-301-9801 fax

504-473-4982 mobile

www.lphi.org

"Bringing People, Ideas and Resources Together"

 

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