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e-Bulletin NC Psychoanalytic Foundation Creating a more resilient community |
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 Membership Alert: Did you know that NCPF members received over $4000 in savings at the May 30th Public Lecture and Professional Workshop event just by being a Friend of NCPF? Approximately 45 NCPF members attended the donor reception for FREE, a benefit at the Supporting Member level. By becoming a new member or renewing your current membership today you too can benefit by being a Friend of NCPF! See our side column for more details on how our members were able to apply their membership benefits and different funds you can support.
The Friends of NCPF membership cycle is from July 1-June 30. All membership/contributions received since April 2009 will be applied to 2009-2010 members. Our next NCPF conference will be October 24, 2009. | |
Special Announcement
Due to the limited amount of programing offered during the summer months, we will not produce a monthly bulletin in July. In preparation for upcoming programs in the Fall, we will resume our monthly distribution the first week in August. |
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See how being a member of NCPF can benefit you...
Approximately 35 members saved $1,225 on the morning lecture hearing world class speakers.
40 of the 75 participants at the networking attended for FREE as a member benefit saving $600.
Members attending the donor reception saved over $1,225 by making a contribution of $150 or more this past year.
We are currently accepting membership applications for the 2009-2010 calendar year. Join now so you can save on future programs! |
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Special NCPF Funds
Support what touches your heart!
NCPF accepts gifts to support designated programs and activities. The following are the funds our members can contribute to:
General Fund
Communications
David Raft Community Outreach and Education Endowment
Open Sky Children's Scholarship Fund
Psychoanalytic Loan Fund
NCPF Journalism Student Award
Peaceful Schools-NC
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Contact Us
919-847-2323
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THANK YOU! With the help of our sponsors, volunteers, participants, and staff our May 30th event, It's My Life: Adapting in Changing Economic Times, was a great success. We have had many requests for audio/video recordings of the May 30, 2009 presentations. We expect to have these available for sale in the next couple of weeks. Information related to availability and pricing will be posted on our web site and information will be e-mailed to those who have requested this information. All requests should be sent to admin@ncpsychoanalysis.org.
Thank you again to our many sponsors for supporting our May 30th program:
Gold Sponsors
citi Smith Barney
Lucy Daniels Foundation
Silver Sponsors
Carroll Heins Endowment at the UNC School of Social Work
Glover Printing
Jordan Institute for Families
Table Sponsors
Anonymous Cicuto Building & Remodeling, Inc
Duke Department of Psychiatry
Psychoanalytic Education Center of the Carolinas (PECC)
Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work (AAPCSW)
North Carolina Chapter of the America Association of NC Society for Clinical Social Workers (NCSCSW)
North Carolina Psychoanalytic Society (NCPS)
Organizational Support through in-kind services:
Academy of Finance of Wake County
Duke Department of Psychiatry
Duke Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Duke Fuqua School of Business
Jordan Institute for Families
UNC Department of Psychiatry
UNC Positive Emotions and Psychophysiology Laboratory |
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NCPF Board Member Spearheads Peaceful Schools Pilot Program
The North Carolina Psychoanalytic Foundation is honored to highlight one of its newest Board Members, A. Renee Prillaman, PhD. Prillaman joined the NCPF board of directors in August of 2008. She serves on the Peaceful Schools-NC committee and is overseeing the pilot program. As the NCPF Liaison, Dr. Prillaman will coordinate the implemention of the Peaceful Schools-NC at Central Park School for Children in Durham, NC. Our pilot school training will take place this July followed by a statewide conference on the Peaceful Schools program on October 24, 2009 at the Friday Center in Chapel Hill, NC.
 Dr. Prillaman graduated with her BA in Education from Furman University, her Masters in Education from the University of Louisville, and her PhD in Curriculum and Instruction from UNC-Chapel Hill. Currently, Prillaman is the Head Teacher in the Middle School at Carolina Friends School in Durham, NC. She has been at Carolina Friends School since 1998 where she began teaching language arts, math, science and social studies. Dr. Prillaman is also an author and writer. Her most recently published article was in the March 2008 Health and Healing resource paper entitled There's a Monster in My Closet: Fear and Young Adolescents.
 In light of the excitement Peaceful Schools-NC has created, NCPF developed a new fund specifically for donations earmarked for this program. Anyone who contributes towards the PS-NC fund will receive a magnet, as illustrated in the photo, for display showing their support creating peace school environments. For more information about the Peaceful School-NC program visit our web site. Contribution towards this fund can be made through our online giving page and indicated in the "comments" box that you would like the funds allocated to Peaceful Schools-NC. You may also call our office at (919) 847-2323 for assistance.
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Highlighted Programs
Monday-Thursday, June 15-18, 2009
2009 Domestic Violence Conference:
Building Partnerships to Expand Our Reach
Location: Greensboro-High Point Marriott Hotel, 1 Marriott Dr, Greensboro, NC Fees: $100 registration (can apply for scholarship to cover hotel room and gas reimbursement) CEUs: $10 fee for CEU credit (through NC State Bar, CLE Accreditation, and AHEC) For more information and to receive a brochure and registration form contact: Randy.Tysinger@usdoj.gov
Saturday, June 27, 2009
All day Far Away and Deep Within
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Important Information for Mental Health Professionals
Each week we send out an eBulletin to our list of Mental Health Professionals. This bulletin includes information on upcoming programs, training, PECC courses, job opportunities, and other general announcements. Each of these eBulletins can be easily accessed on our web site through the Archive link. Please feel free to pass along this information to your colleagues!
We put great effort into maintaining a current email distribution list for both the weekly and monthly electronic newsletters, but if for any reason you are or are not receiving our Mental Health Professional email and you would like to (or would like to be removed), please contact us at info@ncpsychoanalysis.org or call our office at 847.2323.
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For those who receive the weekly MHP bulletin, our last weekly announcement for the summer will be on Friday, June 26, 2009. We will resume sending weekly announcements beginning Friday, August 28, 2009, but please visit the calendar on our web site for any new and updated program news.
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Mental Health Association Day
Advocacy and Education Day
The Mental Health Association in NC is hosting an Advocacy and Education Day at the Legislative Building in Court 1300 on Wednesday, June 10 from 9AM till 3PM. The Legislative Building is located at 16 W. Jones St., Raleigh NC 27601. Education:
This is an opportunity for legislators and the public to learn a little more about mental illness, some of the treatments and resources accessible in NC and MHA/NC's community outreach programs.
Meet Your Legislators:
We also encourage constituents from across the state to meet with their General Assembly Legislators to discuss some of the many important issues facing our community this year, such as
1. access to services and medication,
2. state budget,
3. School Violence Prevention Bill,
4. Parental Involvement in School Discipline
5. Capital Procedures/Severe Mental Disability Bill, among others.
Talking points on these and other issues will be available at the MHA table in Court 1300. To learn who your legislators are and their contact information, go to http://capwiz.com/cdpmi/home/
MINDSTORM:
In addition to legislative visits, there will be an opportunity for legislators and the public to learn what it may feel and sound like to experience symptoms of schizophrenia. Janssen's MINDSTORM is a light-weight headset with polarized glasses that allows an individual to experience the symptoms of schizophrenia while sitting through a short (6 minute) 3D theatre experience. We ask you encourage your legislators to come by Court 1300 of the Legislative Building to take advantage of MINDSTORM and learn more about the various mental illnesses that affect so many members of our community.
Interested in learning how your organization can access MINDSTORM? Call 1-800-JANSSEN.
Legislative Committee Meetings:
Below are a list of legislative committee meetings set for June 10th, which contain at least one bill of interest for the mental health community. All these meetings are open and have seating for the general public. Please keep in mind that these meetings could be cancelled or re-scheduled at any moment depending on the needs of the committee.
9:00 AM (643LOB)
EDUCATION/HIGHER EDUCATION (Senate)
Parental Involvement in School Discipline (H442)
Modify History and Geography Curricula (H1032)
Modify Educ. Requirement/School Bd. Members (H348)
No Penalty for Comm. Coll. Audit Exception (H543)
Fayetteville Tech. Umstead Act Exemption (H698)
Two Orange Co. Schools Are Tech. Schools (H757)
Community College Developmental Courses (S485)
Student Trust Fund/Proprietary Schools (S860)
11:00 AM (544LOB)
HEALTH CARE (Senate)
Mental Health/Law Enforcement Custody (H243)
Tech. & Org. Changes/Certain DHHS Facilities (H456)
Disapprove NCMB Rule/Pet. Pub. Certain JAPS (H703)
Cancer Drug Coverage Changes (H896)
DHHS/Update Current Inspection Practices-AB (H1186)
DHHS/Tracking Outpatient Commitments-AB (H1189)
12:00 PM (414LOB)
MENTAL HEALTH & YOUTH SERVICES (Senate)
Child Care Facilities Rules (H1046)
Joint DV Committee/Recommendations (H115)
Remove Endorsement For Denied Access LME (H576)
MHDDSA Client Rights/Provider Entities (H1087)
Healthy Youth Act (H88)
Please Note:
1. MHA Day is not a rally and we will NOT have speakers, music or a whole day's agenda as is done with the Coalition Rally. This a low key event with an emphasis on providing educational information and meeting with legislators about mental illness and the policy issues that face our population.
2. Food will NOT be provided. There is a cafeteria in the Legislative Building and a snack bar in the Legislative Office Building.
3. There is parking available on Jones St. just passed the Legislative Building. Parking is $1 an hour and cash is the only payment option.
4. Signs and placards can be carried OUTside of the building but will NOT be allowed INside the Legislative Building or the Legislative Office Building.
Questions or need additional information?
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| ACTION ALERT: Contact your Legislator Today!
Budget Cuts affecting those with mental illness, disablitilies, and addictive disease.
The NC Psychoanalytic Foundation Advocacy Committee is strongly supporting action against proposed budget cuts recommended by Health and Human Services Appropriations Sub-Committee. Your active participation in that support is needed. Take action by calling or emailing your own Legislator and House majority and minority leadership (more info below on how to do so). Tell them that these cuts will be devastating and you support them in raising taxes to fund mh/dd/sa community services and supports. NC cannot cut its way out of the budget hole and these cuts are not to "wasteful" spending. The true waste is when people are left without services, jobs and support.
Update
Monday, June 8, 2009: Update from MHA-NC
HOUSE BUDGET PROPOSAL CUTS MH/DD/SA SERVICES
UPDATE: The House HHS Appropriations Committee passed their revised budget on to the full Appropriations Committee without any changes. This budget is significantly worse than the previous version and includes 3 billion in cuts to the Health and Human Services budget including many that will directly impact people with mental illness, developmental disabilities and addictive disease. This budget cuts direct services, threatens our ability to draw down federal funding and will result in tens of thousands of lost jobs.
YOUR ADVOCACY IS WORKING! House Democrats are discussing a revenue package, but there is still much more support needed for it to pass. We need you to tell your neighbors, family members, churches, co-workers, people you do business with that the impact of these cuts will be far reaching and includes them! Your Legislators and the Appropriations Chairs need to hear from you!
Here are some examples of the harmful cuts:
- $74,000,000 in state funds - means elimination of a large array of services including crisis services, START programs, local inpatient beds for example
- 50,000,000 in state funds for direct services
- Elimination of the continuation budget in Medicaid - means there is no safety net
- CAP MR/DD services are reduced or eliminated
- Community Support is eliminated: 33,000 people will be removed from this basic service that includes case management and support to live in the community.
- 5.5-6% reduction in provider rates means many providers will not be able to survive; jobs and services will be lost
- Special assistance decrease - impacts everyone in the mh/dd/sa community
ACTION STEPS
Contact the Appropriations Committee Chairs and Speaker Hackney's office TODAY - Tell them this budget harms people with developmental disabilities, addictive disease and mental illness. Tell them they were elected to protect their constituency. This budget does not do that because people will be hurt and jobs will be lost. They need to raise taxes to protect services and supports for people with MH/DD/SAS; SEE MHA-NC web site for Appropriations Chairs and Speaker Hackney's contact information.
Contact your own legislators with this same message and let them know you are a voter in their district and you want them to raise taxes to prevent cuts to MH/DD/SA services. A listing of House members and info on how to find yours can be found at http://www.ncleg.net/ Personal contact is always best, but if you cannot call you can email through our online advocacy at http://capwiz.com/cdpmi/home/ (This site will also give you detailed info on your NC House Representative).
Letters to the Editor: write to your local paper expressing your concern. Short personal examples are best.
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School Violence Prevention Bill
Senate Bill 526, House Bill 548
The following links will help you follow the progress of this bill.
NCPF Peaceful Schools Program:
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| Sarah Stiegler, MS.Ed.
Director of Administration
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