University of Maine at Augusta

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Online Degree Programs Designed for Public and
Non-Profit Mental Health and Human Service
Personnel

• University of Maine at Augusta
• Grace M. Leonard
• Mary Jo Blazek

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1980-1985

• An interactive television system (audio/visual)
  transmission created at the University of Maine
  at Augusta to allow delivery of specialized
  training and education at 5 community hospitals.

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1985 - 1987

• Two commuter campuses linked to an interactive
  television system to allow for college credit
  courses for day and evening classes.

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1986

• A.A. Social Services approved by University of
  Maine System Board of Trustees

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1988

• Delivery of Social Services Associate Degree
  Program broadcast statewide

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1988 - 1990

• Series of preventable patient deaths at state
  funded Augusta Mental Health Institute led to a
  class action suit against the State.

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1990 - 1992

• Class action suit led to legislation to create a
  better educated mental health workforce for
  community mental health settings. Upon completion
  of courses, students become certified as Mental
  Health Rehabilitation Technicians. Agencies
  hiring graduates receive Medicaid reimbursement.

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1992-present

• The University of Maine at Augusta becomes a
  leader in distance delivery of mental health
  education by offering courses for day, evening
  and night shift personnel statewide

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1997

• B.S. Mental Health Human Services approved by
  the University of Maine System Board of Trustees
• Becomes the largest enrolled degree program in
  the state with approximately 1,000 degree and
  certificate students taking classes statewide via
  interactive television, compressed video,
  web/online and traditional classes.

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1997-present

• Delivery of web-based asynchronous courses
  instituted to reduce the barriers of time and
  location

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2005-present

• Students able to complete entire certificate
  requirements as well as the major degree
  requirements for the associates, bachelors and
  post baccalaureate degrees in Mental Health
  Human Services asynchronously through web-based
  classes

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UMA Degrees

• B.S. Mental Health Human Services
• A.S. Mental Health Human Services
• Post Baccalaureate of Science
• Mental Health Human Services

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Certificate Programs

• Mental Health Rehabilitation
• Child Youth Care Practitioner
• Human Services
• Substance Abuse Rehabilitation
• Juvenile Intensive Supervision Services
• Family Service Worker

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Affiliations

• Maine Department of Health Human Services
• Maine Office of Substance Abuse
• Maine Department of Corrections
• Maine Association of Group Care Providers
• Spurwink Behavioral Health Science Institute

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Affiliations

• Regional Community Mental Health Centers
• Motivational Services
• Sweetser
• Catholic Charities of Maine
• Kids Peace of New England
• Youth Alternatives Ingraham

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Affiliations

• Katahdin Friends
• York County Shelter
• Rumford Group Homes
• Shalom House

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Major Requirements (online)

• HUS101 Intro to Social Services
• HUS 125 Chemical Dependency
• HUS 212 Case Management
• HUS 308 Assessment Planning
• HUS 460 Internship Seminar
• HUS 461, 462 463 Internships
• HUS 349 Supervision
• PSY 330 Interviewing Counseling
• SOC 305 Group Process

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Major Electives (online)

• Choose 9 courses from a list of 27

Blackboard Courses
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MHRT Certificate

• HUS 212 Case Management
• HUS 233 Sexual Abuse and Trauma
• HUS 236 Foundations of Voc Rehab
• PSY 218 Community Mental Health
• PSY 220 Psychosocial Rehabilitation
• PSY 232 Crisis Counseling
• PSY 330 Interviewing Counseling

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MHRT

• PSY 350 Mental Health and Aging
• SOC 201 Social Problems, SOC 340 Soc of
  Minorities or SOC/COM 250 Intercultural
  Communications
• SSC 331 Substance Abuse Counseling for Special
  Populations or HUS 326 Chemical Dependency
  Counseling

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Challenges

• Student diversity/needs
• Program expansion beyond Maine
• Internships

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