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Promote Positive Mental Health for Children in Your Community
National Children's Mental Health Awareness Day
Thursday, May 9, 2013
You can help raise awareness about the importance of children's mental health by sharing information about trauma and resilience in children.
Communities around the country participated last year by holding their own Awareness Day events, focusing either on the national theme, or adapting the theme to the populations they serve.
The effort seeks to raise awareness about the importance of children's mental health. Positive mental health is essential to a child's healthy development from birth.
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WEBINARS:
Financing and Policy Considerations for Medicaid Health Homes for Individuals with Behavioral Health Conditions
Coalition for Whole Health Presents: State-based Advocacy for Essential Health Benefit Design for Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders
Tuesday, April 16, 3-4
2012 - 2013 Technical Assistance Enterprise System of Care Expansion Webinar Series.
April 16th 2:30-4:00
Register
Addressing Homelessness Among Veterans of Recent Conflicts
April 18, 2013 | 2-3:30
Register
Alternatives to Suicide: Lessons from the Western Massachusetts Recovery Learning Community
April 24 1-3 pm
Register
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Suicide Prevention Tips for Emergency Medical Services and the Workplace
Suicide touches everyone; however, there is help and hope when individuals, communities, and professionals join forces to prevent suicide.
The Suicide Prevention Resource Center has just enhanced its Customized Information Sheets series by developing new resources for three important groups of professionals: emergency medical services providers, managers, and employees (coworkers). These three sheets provide basic information on how to identify and respond to individuals who may be suicidal or at high risk for suicide. They also contain a list of relevant resource materials and organizations.
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CLMHD Calendar
Officer's & Chairs Conference Call
April 17 th
8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
Call In Only - contact CLMHD for access
Mental Hygiene Planning
April 11 th
11:30 a.m.-2:00 p.m.
41 State Street Albany Suite 505
CLMHD SPRING FULL MEMBERSHIP MEETING HOLIDAY INN SARATOGA SPRINGS NY
Mentoring Workshop: Sunday, April 28
10 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Full Membership Meeting: Mon-Tues April 29-30
MAY
Officer's & Chairs Conference Call
May 15 th
8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
Call In Only - contact CLMHD for access
Mental Hygiene Planning
Training Day
May 7th
9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Embassy Suites
6646 Old Collamer Rd,
Syracuse NY
SAVE THE DATE: CLMHD COMMITTEE DAY
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Location: Albany Airport Best Western
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The New York State Conference of Local Mental Hygiene Directors advances public policies and awareness for people with mental illness, chemical dependency and developmental disabilities. We are a statewide membership organization that consists of the Commissioner/ Director of each of the state's 57 county mental hygiene departments and the mental hygiene department of the City of New York.
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President Obama's budget proposal will include $235 million in funding for new mental health programs focused on initiatives to help schools detect early warning signs and train thousands of new mental health professionals, an administration official said.
The proposed new commitments come after the Newtown, Conn., shootings increased calls for improving mental health services in addition to stricter gun controls. Read on...
More: US Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius Increasing Access to Mental Health Services
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CMS Announces Opportunity to Apply for Marketplace Navigator Grants
"Navigator" program will help consumers understand new coverage options as they enroll
in new Marketplaces
Navigators are individuals and entities that will provide unbiased information to consumers about health insurance, the new Health Insurance Marketplace, qualified health plans, and public programs including Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program.
"Navigators will be an important resource for the millions of Americans who are eligible to enroll in new coverage opportunities through the Marketplace starting in October of 2013Read more...,
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 Brains as Clear as Jell-O for Scientists to Explore
The visible brain has arrived - the consistency of Jell-O, as transparent and colorful as a child's model, but vastly more useful. Two views of the same intact adult mouse brain, before, at left, and after a new technique developed by researchers at Stanford University was applied to it to make its tissue transparent.
Scientists at Stanford University reported on Wednesday that they have made a whole mouse brain, and part of a human brain, transparent so that networks of neurons that receive and send information can be highlighted in stunning color and viewed in all their three-dimensional complexity without slicing up the organ.
Even more important, experts say, is that unlike earlier methods for making the tissue of brains and other organs transparent, the new process, called Clarity by its inventors, preserves the biochemistry of the brain so well that researchers can test it over and over again with chemicals that highlight specific structures and provide clues to past activity. The researchers say this process may help uncover the physical underpinnings of devastating mental disorders like schizophrenia, autism, post-traumatic stress disorder and others. Read more...
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Charting Her Own Course
 Scientists are trained to be skeptics, and Elizabeth H. Blackburn considers herself one of the biggest. But Dr. Blackburn, 64, a professor of biology and physiology at the University of California, San Francisco, says she has been convinced by a decade of data from her own team and others, linking short telomeres to heart disease, diabetes, cancer and other diseases, and to chronic stress and post-traumatic stress disorder. With studies that explore the connections among emotional stress, health and telomeres, she has delved into questions that she would have shied away from earlier in her career, as a woman trying to establish herself in science. But now, she has enough confidence and autonomy to follow the leads that intrigue her. The scope of her research has expanded tremendously, from a tight focus on molecular biology to broader questions about the implications of her work for health and public policy.
Read more...
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Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Prevention and Treatment
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) is an overall term describing the range of effects that can occur in an individual whose mother consumed alcohol during pregnancy. These effects may include physical, mental, behavioral, or learning disabilities with possible lifelong implications. These disorders often co-occur with substance abuse and mental health issues, and generally require treatment modifications for successful outcomes. The prevalence of the full spectrum of FASD in the general population is estimated at 9.1 per 1,000 live births, although some estimates suggest closer to 50 per 1,000 (or roughly 200,000 babies per year in the United States alone, based on 2010 general birth rates). Issues of stigma surrounding FASD may lead to under-reporting, disguising true prevalence. Since these disorders are 100 percent preventable, it is important to identify and use effective prevention strategies toward those at risk for consuming alcohol during pregnancy.
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Resources for Community Health Assessment and Improvement Planning
The National Association of County and City Health (NACCHO) is pleased to announce the availability of the Resource Center for Community Health Assessments (CHAs) and Community Health Improvement Plans (CHIPs) to support local communities in their community health improvement efforts. This resource center is an online, publicly accessible venue available at no cost, that contains over 150 resources developed by and for health departments and their partners, including:
- Practical, customizable tools
- Key resources
- Example high-quality CHAs and CHIPs
- "How-to" Webinars and training materials
Click here to access the CHA/CHIP Resource Center.
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New Report:
A Plan for Expanding Sustainable Community Health Centers in New York
Millions of New Yorkers are without ready access to a primary care provider. Many communities throughout New York do not have adequate capacity to meet the current and future health care needs of their residents. In this environment, it is critical that New York State has a rational, data-based plan to help community health centers build their capacity and expand their reach.
In this NYSHealth-funded report, the Community Health Care Association of New York State (CHCANY) identifies ways New York State's federally qualified health centers could provide more than 1 million additional visits and serve hundreds of thousands more patients each year.
The report also identifies opportunities to expand capacity by building new community health center sites. The report identifies 16 New York City neighborhoods and 22 counties throughout the State with both the greatest need and the strongest prospects for supporting new health care sites. This plan enables stakeholders across the State to target investments and policy decisions to achieve greater primary care access for New Yorkers. Access the report.
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CIHS Presents New Integration Framework to Help Providers Evolve Integration Efforts
Primary and behavioral healthcare integration is widely recognized as an effective way to improve physical and behavioral health outcomes among people living with mental illnesses and addictions, as well as to lower the cost of care associated with this complex patient population. To continue to improve outcomes, provider organizations must understand where they are on the integration continuum. The SAMHSA-HRSA Center for Integrated Health Solutions' new tool - A Standard Framework for Levels of Integrated Healthcare - helps providers do just that. The framework builds upon and evolves the five levels of collaboration and integration developed by Doherty, McDaniel and Baird, which is commonly used throughout the healthcare field. CIHS' six-level framework begins with collaboration and moves through increasingly sophisticated levels of integration. In addition to using the framework for planning, healthcare providers can use the framework to:
- Create a common language for discussing levels of integration, progress, and financing.
- Support broader efforts to assess and benchmark integration efforts.
- Explain integration efforts to funders, policymakers, and community stakeholders.
- Clarify differences in vision between two or more partnering organizations.
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Medicaid Accountable Care Organization Quality Measurement Strategy Tool
Accountable care organizations (ACOs) are gaining momentum in Medicaid as an innovative model to improve health care quality and reduce costs. As states design ACO programs for Medicaid populations, they must identify a robust set of quality measures that align with state and national goals and include a diverse array of measures to accurately evaluate the program's success.
This technical assistance tool was developed to help states select quality measures for Medicaid ACO programs. It can be used to facilitate quality strategy discussions with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to achieve regulatory approval. It consists of two parts: (1) key themes and questions to guide states' quality measurement strategy development; and (2) a grid to help states prioritize quality measures.
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