West Virginia Bureau of Senior Services
The Bureau of Senior Services partners with the West Virginia Bureau for Public Health to coordinate arthritis activities in West Virginia and offers exercise classes for people with arthritis. The Bureau also partners with Public Health to increase seniors’ knowledge about asthma and osteoporosis, and the Bureau is part of Mountains of Hope, a comprehensive cancer control coalition that works to increase access to cancer information and resources while promoting awareness and education. The Bureau is active in the Stanford Chronic Disease Self-Management Program and uses staff to instruct participants on how to deal with their chronic disease symptoms and how chronic disease impacts their lives. Senior centers provide seniors with walking programs, general exercise programs, and programs targeting certain diseases, health screenings, and educational programs designed to improve physical and mental well-being. The Bureau and many senior centers participate in “West Virginia on the Move,” a program that encourages West Virginians to increase their physical activity and make smarter food choices. Other services include Lighthouse, designed to help seniors with functional needs in their homes such as personal care, mobility, nutrition, and housekeeping; the FAIR Program, which offers relief to family caregivers and provides one-on-one attention and individualized activities for people diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease or a related dementia; in-home services including home-delivered meals, assisted transportation, chores, homemaker services; and caregiver support, helping caregivers access information and assistance, formation of support groups, and respite services for caregivers.
Town Center Mall, 3rd level
Charleston, WV 25305
(304) 558-3317
1-877-987-3646
http://www.wvseniorservices.gov/
West Virginia Department of Education and the Arts’ Division of Rehabilitation Services (DRS)
DRS provides rehabilitation technology services, which includes driver rehabilitation, driver evaluations, vehicle modifications, and driver training; assistive technology, which includes computer access, environmental control, ergonomic and adaptive equipment evaluations; rehabilitation engineering, which can be applied to workstation design, product design and fabrication, and custom assistive technology for work, home and transportation; environmental modification of homes including the installation of stairs and ramps, and modifications of bathrooms, kitchens, and doorways; The West Virginia Technology-Related Assistance Revolving Loan Fund For Individuals With Disabilities, a statewide loan program that can help qualified residents buy assistive technology devices or services; services for the blind and visually impaired, which includes essential services or skills needed to work and live independently with vision impairment; Visually Impaired Seniors In-home Outreach and Networking Services; a bioptic driving program that helps drivers with moderate non-progressive vision loss; and services for the deaf and hard of hearing, which provide specially trained vocational rehabilitation counselors to meet the needs of people who are deaf, hard of hearing, late deafened or deaf-blind by offering counseling and guidance, vocational assessment and training.
State Capitol
P. O. Box 50890
Charleston, WV 25305
In the Kanawha Valley, (304) 766-4600
Toll-free 1-800-642-8207
http://www.wvdrs.org/
West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources’ Bureau for Behavioral Health and Health Facilities, Division for Adult Mental Health Services
Description Programs of this division include Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness (PATH), which supports service delivery to people with mental illness and or co-occurring substance abuse disorders, who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless; Assertive Community Treatment (ACT), an evidence-based approach to providing individualized services to people with mental illness in their own home and community; and evaluations for West Virginia courts for pre-trial information on competency and responsibility and for pre-sentencing recommendations for people found guilty of a sexual offense.
350 Capitol Street, Room 350
Charleston, WV 25301
(304) 558-0627
http://www.wvdhhr.org/bhhf/adultmh.asp
West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources’ Bureau for Behavioral Health and Health Facilities, Division on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse
Services include residential substance abuse treatment programs located throughout the state, providing 24 hour care beginning with clinically managed residential detoxification and ending with referral to treatment and recovery services; specialized programs for women; and transitional living facilities.
350 Capitol Street, Room 350
Charleston, WV 25301
(304) 558-0627
http://www.wvdhhr.org/bhhf/ada.asp
West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources’ Bureau for Behavioral Health and Health Facilities, Division of Children’s Services
The mission of this division is to plan and ensure implementation of a statewide system of appropriate and accessible mental health services for children and their families; the division strives to ensure that services recognize the diverse needs of children and their families and to provide support for families to remain together and for youth to stay in the community.
350 Capitol Street, Room 350
Charleston, WV 25301
(304) 558-0627
http://www.wvdhhr.org/bhhf/dcs_welcome.asp
West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources’ Bureau for Behavioral Health and Health Facilities, Division for Developmental Disabilities (DD)
The DD Division contracts with West Virginia University Center for Excellence in Disabilities (CED) to provide two crisis coordinators who give technical assistance training to providers and consultation with treatment teams and crisis respites sites. CED’s goal is to build agencies’ capacities to support individuals with developmental disabilities. Other programs include the West Virginia Family Support Program, which provides supports including respite care and assistance with transportation, equipment and health-related needs, accessing goods and services in the community, and home modifications; supported employment; and unmet needs, supports and termination grants.
State Capitol Complex, Building 3 Room 206
Charleston, WV 25305
(304) 558-0684
http://www.wvdhhr.org/bhhf/mrdd.asp
West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources’ Bureau for Public Health, Division of Health Promotion and Chronic Disease, West Virginia Asthma Education and Prevention Program (WV-AEPP)
WV-AEPP strives to provide current asthma guideline information, education curriculums and resources, and to promote asthma awareness as a chronic disease. WV-AEPP contracts with the American Lung Association-WV to provide training for programs such as “Breathe Well Live Well,” “Open Airways for Schools,” and “Asthma 101,” which are all evidence-based curriculums. Another contractor is West Virginia University School of Medicine’s Office of Health Services Research (OHSR) and Department of Pediatrics, which conducts the Clinic-based Asthma ManagementProgram (C-bAMP) in community health centers, free clinics, and other rural health facilities in West Virginia, which helps health care practitioners provide the highest quality of care for their patients with asthma through the use of a patient disease registry system. OHSR also has worked to provide enhanced surveillance of West Virginians with asthma, and to implement school-based interventions for children with asthma as well as clinic-based intervention for patients with asthma by enhancing provider education. In partnership with the Department of Tobacco Prevention, AEPP created two 30-second commercials about asthma and the effects of second-hand smoke and cigarette smoking. The Charleston Area Medical Center (CAMC) Health Education and Research Institute, Inc. applied for funds for the West Virginia Charleston Asthma Management Program for Seniors or WVChAMPS, which is an asthma self-care management program geared toward seniors; CAMC Institute also partnered with AEPP and the WVDHHR to update, produce, deliver, and archive educational modules with the web-based curriculum “Asthma Education for Primary Care Providers,” which is accessible to the public and provided to healthcare providers.
350 Capitol Street, Room 206
Charleston, WV 25301
(304) 558-0644
http://www.wvasthma.org/
West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources’ Bureau for Public Health, Division of Health Promotion and Chronic Disease, Osteoporosis and Arthritis Program
The West Virginia Chapter of the Arthritis Foundation provides a variety of health promotion programs for people with arthritis, including programs in aquatic exercise, land exercise, and Tai Chi.
350 Capitol Street, Room 206
Charleston, WV 25301
(304) 558-0644
http://www.wvbonenjoint.org/
West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources’ Bureau for Public Health, Division of Health Promotion and Chronic Disease, West Virginia Diabetes Prevention and Control Program (WV DPCP)
WV DPCP partners with Charleston Area Medical Center (CAMC) Health Education and Research Institute, Inc. to provide the CAMC Outpatient “3-Step Diabetes Self-Management Education Program,” a 10-hour program divided into three appointments offered at various times and days to include a discussion on types of diabetes, making healthy food choices, developing a meal plan with a dietitian, reviewing medications, practicing blood glucose monitoring, initiating a physical activity plan, discussing prevention and treatment of diabetes complications, and setting and evaluating personal goals. CAMC also provides “Pregnancy and Diabetes Education,” a two-hour class for pregnant women with type 1, type 2, gestational diabetes or women with diabetes in need of pre-pregnancy counseling; and “Advanced Carbohydrate Counting Education,” a four-hour program designed to help people who take insulin before meals, either by injection or via insulin pump. Another partner is Marshall University Center for Rural Health’s Self Management Resources and Support, which offers chronic disease self management resources and support to rural health centers, churches and community organizations and helps organizations develop programs and support for people to benefit from taking control of their diabetes and other chronic diseases. The West Virginia Medical Institute has partnered with the WV DPCP to conduct a media campaign via television and radio announcements, encouraging people with diabetes to get tests and exams such as HbA1c and dilated eye exams, as well as influenza and pneumococcal vaccinations. West Virginia University Extension Service’ Dining with Diabetes Program, offered statewide to individuals with diabetes and their family members, strives to provide diabetes education to individuals in rural areas where access to formal diabetes education programs is limited or non-existent.
350 Capitol Street, Room 206
Charleston, WV 25301
(304) 558-0644
http://www.wvdiabetes.org/
West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources’ Office of Maternal, Child and Family Health, Children with Special Health Care Needs Program (CSHCN)
Services provided by CSHCN include medical care in CSHCN-sponsored clinics throughout West Virginia; treatment services may include laboratory tests and X-rays, medications, physical therapy, hearing aids, medical equipment and supplies, surgery/anesthesia, hospitalization, and physician visits.
350 Capitol Street, Room 427
Charleston, WV 25301
(304) 558-5388
http://www.wvdhhr.org/cshcn/