Carol Waltz

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  Centre County Mental Health/Mental Retardation - Drug... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 11/7/2002    Last Visited: 1/13/2006  

  Carol J. Waltz, Administrator
  
  Centre County Office of Mental Health/Mental Retardation-Drug and AlcoholWillowbank County Office Building420 Holmes StreetBellefonte PA 16823-1488

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  Centre Daily Times | 01/25/2006 | State grant would... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/25/2006    Last Visited: 1/26/2006  

  Carol Waltz, administrator of Centre County's office of Mental Health and Mental Retardation, said the state has provided increased funding for her office's programs for the past two years but had not for several years before that.She said the money has not been enough to make up for rising costs and a growing number of patients being served.
  
  "With the state's goals of emptying state hospitals, we need to find options to place people in the community," she said.
  
  About $1.2 million, or 30 percent, of the office's $4.1 million budget that was designated for mental health programs in 2004-05 went to pay for housing, Waltz said.
  
  "If we could free up some dollars out of that budget, we could serve more people in the county in other areas," she said.
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  Waltz said how a Fairweather Lodge would be received by neighbors depends on how the issue is handled."I think you really need to work with the community," she said.

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  Centre Daily Times | 03/12/2003 | Budget cuts deep:... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 3/12/2003    Last Visited: 3/12/2003  

  At Tuesday's weekly Centre County Board of Commissioners meeting, Bob Ott, director of the Office of Adult Services, Carol Waltz, acting director of the county Office of Mental Health/Mental Retardation, and Cathy Arbogast, director of the county's office of drugs and alcohol, came to report on the effects such a considerable loss in state funding would have on the people they serve.
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  The agency would also have to further prioritize the need for its services and rely even more heavily on outside community service agencies, such as churches and food banks, for help, Waltz said.
  
  Waltz said the budget may also be cutting how much it pays in medical assistance, pushing the costs incurred by those who need various types of therapy or hospitalization back to the county.

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  Centre Daily Times | 05/26/2004 | MH/MR requests $1... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 5/26/2004    Last Visited: 5/27/2004  

  Carol Waltz, Centre County's director of Mental Health/Mental Retardation, asked the Board of Commissioners Tuesday to approve its yearly Mental Health Plan.
  
  Before the plan's approval, Waltz told the commissioners that during the 2002-03 fiscal year, the last year for which figures were available, the mental health office served 1,646 clients -- slightly more than 10 percent of the county's population -- at a cost of $4.2 million.
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  Waltz said the department's needs are going up.During the 2002-03 fiscal year, there were 259 involuntary commitments, which is up from years past.Waltz said there are a number of factors in play that could lead to the need for more mental health services, including stress from the country's involvement with the war in Iraq, local job losses and the movement of people into the county.
  
  In addition to asking for a 3 percent cost-of-living increase, the county's Mental Health office would like to expand outpatient and community residential programs to reach clients on waiting lists for services, the elderly, young people aging out of Children and Youth Services and those in need of transportation to appointments at a cost of $1.3 million, with $131,119 coming from the county.
  
  The biggest expense, for which the office is requesting $581,000 from the state, would be a program to bring longtime residents of state psychiatric hospitals home.
  
  Waltz said Centre County would work in conjunction with neighboring counties to meet the goal of putting those released from the hospitals into regional residential facilities.

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  Centre Daily Times | 10/12/2004 | Lawmakers, health... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 10/12/2004    Last Visited: 10/12/2004  

  "The philosophy of the Department of Welfare is that people do not go to state centers -- that people should be served in the communities -- but we don't have the money," said Carol Waltz, Centre County's administrator of mental health, mental retardation, and drug and alcohol services.
  
  Waltz and her counterparts from surrounding counties aired such frustrations before four county commissioners -- all three of Centre County's -- and three-fourths of the General Assembly delegation that represents county residents: state Sen.
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  While waiting lists for services grow, Waltz said, the combination of scant funds and community-located services sends too much money to too few "high-profile" cases.Five such cases in Centre County cost $1.3 million a year, 13 percent of the entire budget.

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  Centre Daily Times | 10/16/2004 | "I see pretty soon... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 10/16/2004    Last Visited: 10/16/2004  

  -- Carol Waltz, Center County administrator of mental health, mental retardation and drug and alcohol services, on the difficulty human-service providers are having with too much red tape and not enough funds

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  CentreCounty.com: My Bald Eagle Valley Local News - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/18/2004    Last Visited: 8/21/2004  

  The director of the mental health office, Carol Waltz, told the Centre County commissioners that, in 2002-03, her office provided service to 1,646 clients at a total cost of $4.2 million.

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  Kulp's prison suicide raises questions - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 8/30/2001    Last Visited: 8/30/2001  

  There are standard questions that counselors ask people to determine whether or not they are possibly suicidal , said Carol Waltz , administrator and crisis assessor for Mental Health/Mental Retardation.
  
  We do an assessment to determine the immediacy of danger , she said.
  
  Waltz said that every assessment is evaluated on a case-by-case basis and that there are no actual words that determine whether or not someone is suicidal , but a combination of things.
  
  She said warning signs include if the person has a plan of suicide , has the means to do it , has a chance of following through with the suicide , has a past history of suicide attempts or has a mental health history.
  
  There are certain things you look for , Waltz said.
  
  If someone is in a controlled environment then it is easier to prevent a suicide from happening because there are many people to look out for him , she said.
  
  It's a common fallacy to think that if one really wants to commit suicide then they don't say anything about it - that's not true , Waltz said.
  
  Not only do counselors take into consideration what a person says , but also their body language and appearance.

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  Legitimate Home based Business Opportunities Best Home... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 9/20/2006    Last Visited: 10/7/2006  

  Carol Waltz, administrator of the county's Office of Mental Health and Mental Retardation, announced the g ...

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  NEPA News - NEPA News - 01/25/2006 - News in brief... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/25/2006    Last Visited: 1/25/2006  

  "With the state's goals of emptying state hospitals, we need to find options to place people in the community," said Carol Waltz, administrator of the county office.

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