Weekly Report -- February 27, 2012

February 27, 2012

NAMI CAN!

NAMI California Legislative Positions

NAMI CA has the following Board-approved positions on active legislation:

AB 154 (Beall D) Health care coverage: mental health services. Insurance parity for mental health and substance abuse services. SUPPORT. Top Priority.
AB 327 (Davis D) Sentencing: Three Strikes. Narrows the criteria for the third strike. SUPPORT. Level 2 Priority.
AB 683 (Ammiano D) Homelessness. Requires composite database to develop profile of state's homeless population. SUPPORT. No hearings scheduled.
AB 826 (Atkins D) Parolees: mentally ill: services. Requires outcome reporting by contracted service providers. SUPPORT. No hearings scheduled.
SB 9 (Yee D) Sentencing. Authorizes petitions for recalls and rehearings for individuals sentenced before they were 18. SUPPORT. No hearings scheduled.
SB 60 (Evans D) Mental health: state hospitals. Eliminates provisions for evaluation and treatment of individuals committed under any provisions of the penal code. OPPOSE. This bill is dead for this session but legislative workgroup is watching for reincarnation as new bill.
SB 119 (Lowenthal D) Emergency youth shelter facilities. Facilitates continued operation of shelters caught between licensing requirements. SUPPORT. No hearings scheduled.

Friday, February 24th was the last day for bills to be introduced for the 2011/2012 session. We have tried to keep up with them as they were introduced but Friday's onslaught will take another two weeks. So far, the Legislative Work Group has picked up five bills to analyze but it has at least 24 more bills to discuss and decide whether to analyze. The NAMI CA lobbyist, Judith Wolen, is sorting through several hundred other bills that did not pop up in a word search but could be very pertinent. This is probably 10 days' work. Bills that go to the Legislative Work Group must fit into the categories of being clearly Mental Health Bills or addressing Services that Affect People with Mental Illnesses, including any related to the Affordable Care Act.

Once an analysis is transformed into a position paper, it goes to the NAMI CA Board of Directors before being posted for our members and acted upon. Please join us in that action.

Together, we're better.

Bettie Reinhardt

NAMI CAN! Coordinator

bettie.reinhardt@namicalifornia.org

NAMI California Has Moved!

Please make note of our new office address. As of February 27th, you'll find us at:

1851 Heritage Lane, Suite 150

Sacramento, Ca 95815

(916) 567-0163 main

(916) 567-1757 fax

new nami offices

NAMI California's 2012 Annual Conference: Applications for Workshops

NAMI California's 2012 Annual Conference will be held at the Marriott Hotel in Irvine, California on Friday August 17th & Saturday August 18th. We are now accepting applications for workshops. This year's theme is "All of Us Together: Advocacy in Action".

All applications must be submitted with this attached form.

Please include a brief biographical sketch of each presenter, along with the title and proposed objective for your workshop. The may be up to a total of four presenters per workshop. You are responsible for your own LCD projectors; TVs and VCRs may be rented at the hotel.

Completed forms must be received by April 6th, 2012.

Fax or email them to:

NAMI California

Attn: Nikki Townsend

nikki.townsend@namicalifornia.org

(916) 567-0163 office (916) 567-1757 fax

CMH Offers Small Counties Webinar Series on Wellness Centers and Peer Driven Programs

Please join CMH for a 4-part series of webinars outlining best practices, models and strategies for developing and implementing wellness centers and peer-driven programs in small counties on March 2, March 30, April 27, and May 18.

Webinar 1: Recovery Perspectives in Wellness Models

(Presenter: Anne MacRae):
Why Wellness? Changing focus from a medical to a social model. An overview and history of the concept of recovery (personal and clinical). The role of the professional in peer driven models. Professional-Peer collaboration

Date: Friday, March 2

Time: 9:30-11:00 am

Webinar 2: Wellness Centers: Models and Programming

(Facilitator: Anne MacRae; Invited speakers from various counties):
Infrastructure, Financial Sustainability, Special Issues

Date: Friday, March 30

Time: 9:30-11:00 am

Webinar 3: Employees with Lived Experience within County Systems

(Facilitator and presenter - Anne MacRae; additional presentations by invited speakers):
Models of employment, Supervision versus mentoring, Employment evaluations

Date: Friday, April 27

Time: 9:30-11:00 am

Webinar 4: Sustainability and Funding Streams

(Facilitator: Anne MacRae)

Funding and Sustainability, Outcome measures, Closure and Action Plan: Where do we go from here?

Date: Friday, May 18

Time: 9:30-11:00 am

Reserve your Webinar seats now.

Click here to register for the entire series.

or register for individual sessions:

Webinar #1, March 2:

https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/607661441

Webinar #2, March 30:

https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/707160017

Webinar #3, April 27:

https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/662991592

Webinar #4, May 18:

https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/371038289

After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.

For more information, contact:

Shoshana Zatz

Associate II

California Institute for Mental Health

2125 19th Street, 2nd Floor

Sacramento, CA 95818

(916) 556-3480, ext. 141 (office)

(530) 219-0862 (cell)

szatz@cimh.org

www.cimh.org

NAMI Family Program Trainings

We are excited to be offering these family program trainings in the next two months.

Please see the schedule below:

Northern California

NAMI Basics Training

Date: March 9-11, 2012

City: Santa Clara

Southern California

Spanish de Familia a Familia Teacher Training

Date: March 30 - April 1, 2012

City: Santa Ana

Interested in volunteering? Please contact your local affiliate for details.

--Lynn Cathy

Director of Family Programs

Lynn.Cathy@namicalifornia.org

TAY Unconvention, Stockton

The Central Region Partnership Stars Behavioral Healthcare and the California Youth Empowerment Network are organizing the "TAY Unconvention" In Stockton, March 16, 2012.

Topics are of interest to TAY Peer to Peer workers, Tay providers, agency and county staff in the field of Tay mental health. Come be a teacher or student on how Tay can improve services in the central region.

To register, go to http://centralregiontayuncon.eventbrite.com.

For more details, visit the TAY Facebook page.

Contact: Jordan Moniz by email or at (916) 482-2370, ext 313.

Save the Date!

2012 NAMI CA Annual Statewide Conference

When: Friday, August 17th & Saturday, August 18th

Where: Marriot Hotel, Irvine, CA

More information to come!

Hope to see you there!

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Weekly Report

NAMI California
1010 Hurley Way

Suite 195
Sacramento, CA, 95825

Phone: 916-567-0163 Fax: 916-567-1757

www.namicalifornia.org