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July 30, 2012

Conference Update: Only Three Weeks to Go! 

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2012 NAMI CA Annual Statewide Conference 
 

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

Where: Marriot Hotel, Irvine, CA

 

The Conference Agenda has been posted at NAMI California. Organize your plans! Discover who is speaking, on what topic, and when.

Keynote Speaker Keris Myrick is profiled today in The Los Angeles Times.

Read about all our speakers. Or view the agenda

 

Register! 

 

We'll see you there!
NAMI CAN!

Notes from the State Front

Note: The California legislature reconvenes after summer recess on Monday August 6th.

 

Note: Most of "our bills" have yet to go through the appropriations (finance) committees so we are waiting to see what amendments happen there.

 

Note: We will adjust position statements as necessary and make them available to all members before they go to "the floor" of Assembly or Senate.

 

Note: We are planning several opportunities for NAMI California Conference attendees to learn more about advocacy in general and NAMI CA advocacy in particular:

  • Leadership Institute on Thursday
    • Brief introduction to NAMI Smarts in new programs section
    • Advocacy Forum in the evening
    • Workshop on Saturday afternoon - NAMI Smarts training: Emails and Phone Calls

Note:  Vanessa Baird, 54, of Sacramento, has been appointed Deputy Director of Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Services at the California Department of Health Care Services, where she has served in an acting capacity since early 2012. The appointment requires Senate confirmation.

 

Note: The Chief positions for Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders have not yet been filled.

 

Note to keep in mind: California has 36 million citizens. 7.1 m are uninsured (~20%). We expect 4.1 m newly enrolled on January 1, 2014.

 

- - Bettie Reinhardt, MPH

NAMI CAN! Coordinator

[email protected] 

Conference Call August 1:

The Affordable Care Act and Its Implications on African American Communities

WHAT: The Supreme Court announced its highly anticipated decision on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). So what does it mean for African Americans, their health and well-being? 
The California Endowment and California Black Health Network will host a media conference call with health and policy experts on the potential impact of the Affordable Care Act and the Court's decision on African Americans, on the state of California and the nation.

 

WHEN: The call is scheduled on Wednesday, August 1, 2012 at 11:00 AM PST. To register, please click on this linkhttp://www.atconference.com/events/registration.php?ID=c38e9df8-8b5e-4dc0-bd5f-b9c75ffeac22. 

 

WHO:

  • Herb Schultz, Director, Region IX, Department of Health and Human Services
  • Senator Curren Price, California's 26th State Senate District, Chair, California Legislative Black Caucus
  • Daniel Zingale, Senior Vice President, The California Endowment
  • Calvin Freeman, Chairman, Board of Directors, California Black Health Network
  • Darcel Lee, Executive Director, California Black Health Network
  • Dr. Gary Puckrein, PhD, President & CEO, National Minority Quality Forum 

NAMI Statement on Aurora Shootings 

NAMI has posted a blog authored by Michael Fitzpatrick, The Colorado Tragedy: What Families are Asking. The blog is posted to the homepage of NAMI.org and shared via Blogger and our other social media channels; it is viewable at http://blog.nami.org/2012/07/the-colorado-tragedy-what-families-are.html.

As stated in the piece, it is important to stress that NAMI does not speculate about mental illness or other factors that may be involved in such tragedies-or for that matter other kinds of news events.  

 

However, events such as Aurora often require our perspective and we may be called upon to assist in offering our viewpoint in advance of more details.  

 

As more information surrounding the tragedy unfolds, we will keep you posted of any additional response NAMI may issue. For now, you are encouraged to read, share and join in echoing the blog's messages: the acknowledgement of the sadness of the tragedy and our commitment to helping those in need.

California Workforce Education and Training Stakeholders 

With passage of the FY 2012/2013 Budget, the Mental Health Services Act (MHSA) Workforce Education

and Training (WET) Program has been transitioned from the Department of Mental Health (DMH) to the

Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD).

 

The WET Program will be administered through OSHPD's Health Professions Education Foundation led

by Executive Director, Lupe Alonzo-Diaz. Linda Onstad-Adkins, Director of Programs Administration is

managing the WET Program and Inna Tysoe is the Staff Mental Health Specialist providing daily program

administration of the Program.  

 

OSHPD contact information is as follows:

 

Lupe Alonzo-Diaz, Executive Director, Health Professions Education Program

[email protected]

(916) 326-3700

 

Linda Onstad-Adkins, Director of Programs Administration

[email protected]

(916) 326-3695

 

Inna Tysoe, Staff Mental Health Specialist, WET Program

[email protected]

(916) 326-3650

 

For information visit our webpage at: http://www.oshpd.ca.gov/HPEF/wet.html

New Phone for WWT Peer Certification Calls   

Due to the challenges on our Wednesday WWT Peer Cert. Call, CiMH staff quickly responded with a new call-in number for the 4th Wednesday of each month, 12-1pm, (which will be the same number for our other workgroup call on the 2nd Thursday, 12-1). 

 

Number: 1-866-633-8010 

Code: 1015102631  

 

The issues of noise on the line and limited callers will hereby be resolved. Thanks for your patience. Attached find the updated flyer.


-- Karin Lettau Schoeneich, MS
Working Well Together, Southern Region

Technical Assistance Coordinator

Direct Line: 619-246-7797 

http://workingwelltogether.org

California Parent Survey Results   

A joint parent survey was administered by the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) California, Disabilities Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF), Family SOUP, and Team of Advocates for Special Kids (TASK) and results of the survey were presented to the AB Transition Work Group on February 16, 2012.

The survey was administered statewide through Survey Monkey and over 500 families responded (surveys were administered in both English and Spanish). A new guidance document has been posted on the California Department of Education (CDE) Assembly Bill 114 Special Education Transition Web page, providing information regarding the structure and results of the survey, as well as information on related services, changing related services on an individualized education program (IEP), IEP Team membership, and use of insurance. This document can be found at http://www.cde.ca.gov/sp/se/ac/prntsrvyltr.asp

A video recording of this presentation has been posted from the February 16, 2012, meeting on the California Department of Education AB 114 Transition Work Group Web page at http://www.cde.ca.gov/sp/se/ac/ab114twg.asp and is available for viewing.

-- AB 114 Transition Workgroup Team

CA Reducing Disparities Population Reports Now Online

 A few weeks prior to the OMS transition from DMH to DPH, the finalized Native American Population Report was completed and mailed out to various organizations.  At that time, Native Health Center was undergoing web redevelopment and updates and could not post an electronic version of the report until recently.

 

Below are the links to all CRDP Population Reports; three of which have been finalized. The API Population Report has completed the public review period and Pacific Clinics will be submitting the final report for DPH approval. The LGBTQ Population Report public review period began on July 16th and goes through August 6th.

 

https://www.sendthisfile.com/aFGac2MJ32SBfb8jf7saBpfK 

 

http://www.nativehealth.org/content/publications 

 

http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/newsroom/pdf 

 

Latino_mental_health_report-6-25-2012-1.pdf 

 

http://www.eqcai.org/site/c.mtJYJbMKIoE/b.8234631/k.CB60/Reducing_Disparities_Project.htm 

 

http://crdp.pacificclinics.org/resources 

 

Still to come: Finalization of the API and LGBTQ Population Reports and the Statewide Comprehensive Strategic Plan on Reducing Health Disparities.

Orange County Community Forum on the MHSA, Sept. 13  

The next MHSOAC Community Forum on the Mental Health Services Act (Prop 63) will be held in Orange County on September 13, 2012. We hope to see you at this free community event!

 

September 13, 2012 
3:30 PM - 7:00 PM

Delhi Center
505 East Central Avenue
Santa Ana, CA 92707
(714) 489-9600

 

View The Event Flyer and Letter of Invitation or go to http://www.mhsoac.ca.gov/Meetings/Meetings.aspx.   

 

Additional materials:

Flyer en Espanol.

Flyer in Vietnamese.

Flyer in Arabic

 

Please RSVP directly to [email protected] and email [email protected] that you will be attending.

To Jonee Shady with Gratitude 

NAMI California says farewell and thanks to Jonee Shady, who has served as the Family Programs Assistant for over 5 years. She has faithfully provided the family programs department with administrative support and has served as a trainer in some of the trainings held throughout the state.

 

Jonee will still be remaining active in the NAMI Los Angeles area and can be contacted via her personal email:  [email protected].

If You Paid for Paxil�, You Could Get a Payment from a Class Action Settlement

A class action settlement will provide money  to California residents who were 18 years old or
older and who paid for any portion of the price of  the prescription antidepressant Paxil� while living
in California from January 14, 1999 through January 1, 2003, and who qualify under the settlement
(these people are called "Class Members"). If you're  included, you may ask for a payment, or you can
exclude yourself from, or object to, the settlement.

The Superior Court for the State of California, County of Los Angeles will have a hearing to decide whether to approve the settlement so that payments can be issued. The lawsuit claims that GlaxoSmithKline falsely advertised and promoted Paxil� as being non-habit forming or non-addictive and that GlaxoSmithKline's advertisements and promotional materials failed to disclose the risk of symptoms from stopping or discontinuing Paxil�. GlaxoSmithKline denies each of these allegations.

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Sacramento, CA 95815 

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

www.namicalifornia.org

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