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The Dayton-based nonprofit mental healthy provider will venture into the county this March with a leasede officeinside 's new Speciality Care Center of Warrejn County, which is located in Middletowmn on the new . At first, the expansion will be a smalkoperation -- about eight hours a week with one cliniciahn -- but is expected to grow, said Sue the group's chief executive By leasing the space at Children's, the group avoids otheer support staffing costs and can keep the first-yeart expenses to about $15,000, she "Everyone we have talked to says thered is a serious shortage of mentalp health services to children in the county," McGath said.
Warren County has been in growth mode for year s with its population growingfrom 158,000 in 2000 to more than 197,000 in 2005. After Warren County, the 170-person group has its eyes on a potentialo clinic inButler County. This year is provingy to be one of expansion for the althoughits $12.5 million budget is stayintg relatively stable. Along with the Warrejn County office, the group is now hiringh about eight new employees to stafg the thatrecently opened. In the old detention the group only had one therapist on But withabout $400,000 in funding from the human services levy, the grouo will hire six new therapists, a part-time psychiatrist and a part-timee registered nurse.
The early childhood which includes children ages threreto five, has been the fastest growing population for the organization for the past two In 2007, the patientg call volume for appointments for this age grouop grew 30 percent from 2006, she In January, Samaritan Behavioral received a new $91,000 stat e grant to help cover costs of treating that age group. The granyt will allow the nonprofit to hire a clinicia trained specifically in dealing withyounb children, McGatha said. But McGatha said it won'g be easy to find someone withthat speciality.
She reliees more on training her current clinicians to responfd to the particular needs of three to five year The nonprofit is also considering adding a clinician to server adult patients at a Warrej Countyphysician office, she said. Formerly part of , Samaritahn Behavioral became an independent nonprofitin 2003. The organizatioh now has workers in Montgomery andPreble counties. Early research shows indicates there may be a need for expandeed services in Butler Countyas well, McGaths said.
Most of the children that Samaritan Behavioral serves qualifyfor Medicaid, which means it is often more difficultg for their parents to find a doctor to see McGatha speculates that socio-economic factors -- such as poverthy and single-parent households ­-- as well as a bettert awareness of mental health services, have caused the increase in theire youth patient load. "I certainly thin k that the stressors that families experiencse these days with situations ofsingle poverty, difficulty in accessing education sometimesd ... every stressor that affects our society is beginninb to manifest itself in some she said.