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NAMI California Conference 2012 and Advocacy
The Affiliate Leadership Institute Advocacy in Action presentation will be posted on the website. The NAMI CAN! Forum offered a good discussion on ways to communicate and to better tap the group wisdom of our members for legislative analysis. Over thirty members earned NAMI Smarts Module II certificates. Congrat-ulations to those advocates! NAMI Smarts Module I (Telling Your Story) will continue to be presented at Regional Conferences. The schedule will be posted as soon as host affiliates have confirmed their dates/places.
Legislation
SB 9, AB1509 and AB 1907 have passed out of the legislature and are on their way to the governor's desk. We encourage your joining us in supporting these bills. It is easy to use his office's email form. If the bill number is not on the list (scroll down), choose Prison Issues for subject line.
AB 154, behavioral health parity (Beall) that NAMI California co-sponsored, has had a tough go of it. Fortunately, the author has managed to fold it into two Essential Health Benefits bills. Look forward to a special alert about those bills shortly.
California's general fund spending has dropped -- but that doesn't tell the whole story
As readers well know, mental health has disappeared from the state's general fund. However, it has reappeared in realignment to the counties and Prop 63's Mental Health Services Fund. NAMI California is trying to determine what might have disappeared in that transition but finding the process very challenging. This article in Saturday's Sacramento Bee helps explain why it is so difficult..
Just when we thought a little rest was on the horizon.......
..... Gov. Jerry Brown plans to call a special legislative session at the end of the year on the national health care overhaul, as the state prepares to implement the landmark act by 2014.
- - Bettie Reinhardt, MPH
NAMI CAN! Coordinator
bettie.reinhardt@namicalifornia.org
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