Adult Protective Services: 
Athens County Department of Job and Family Services

Agency Information:
Athens County Job and Family Services operates Adult Protective Services.

CCE Site:
Athens County Department of Job and Family Services
184 North Lancaster St.
Athens, OH  45701

Phone:
740-592-4477 Extension 1133

Contact Person:
Tabitha McDade, LSW

Special Notes:
If you are unable to attend the CCE, 48 working hours advance notice must be given to the CCE office to reschedule the experience. If you will arrive even a few minutes late, please call 592-4477 extension 1133.

Office Hours:
Flexible

Instructor:
Tabitha McDade, LSW
Adult Protective Services Coordinator

Specific CCE Goals:
By participating in this CCE assignment, medical students will have increased knowledge of:

• Adult Protective Services in Athens County.
• Emergency Prescription Services.

Objectives/Activities:
By participating in this CCE assignment, medical students will be able to:

• Define and describe the processes involved in providing Adult Protective Services.
• Review the Ohio Revised Code. 
• Visit the home of an individual referred for investigation/care by Adult Protective Services and discuss the intervention plan for the referred individual with APS staff.                               
• Describe Emergency Prescription Services and plan of intervention of this program.

Equipment Needed for Activity:
None

Dress:
Identification badge – no lab jacket.  Please wear professional casual clothes, no blue jeans or tennis shoes.  Neckties are not necessary.

Responsibilities of the medical student:

• While on agency property, medical students will conform to all applicable policies and procedures of the agency.
• Medical students will exercise confidentiality with regard to all patient and/staff information gained during the clinical experience.

Directions:
Leaving OU-COM, turn left onto Richland Avenue.  Go uptown, turn left at the light onto Court St. and go all the way to the end.  At the light turn left onto Carpenter St.  Follow Carpenter to the top of the hill, where you turn right onto Lancaster St.  Athens County Department of Job and Family Services will be in the first block or two on your right.  Park in the JFS visitor lot at 184 North Lancaster.  Come into the building and tell the receptionist you are a medical student there for an experience with Adult Protective Services.