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WEBINARS & Resources:
Recovery Month Goes International
The 24th annual National Recovery Month celebration in
September
includes international observances this year.
SAMHSA's Bringing Recovery Supports to Scale Technical Assistance Center Strategy (BRSS TACS)
on the SAMHSA Recovery Support homepage. Here you can learn about BRSS TACS funding opportunities, how to request training and technical assistance, scan the ever-growing Recovery Library or learn more about what other organizations, states and systems are doing to implement recovery concepts, policies, practices and services. Here
SAMHSA: Recovery Month Toolkit Now Available OnlineInformation about health reform basics, prevention under health reform, SAMHSA's health reform efforts, financing research and data, SAMHSA's Financing Focus newsletter, health care integration, BHbusiness for providers, and parity. Here
Webinar- "Rate Shock" - Or Not? The latest on what insurance rates will look like when state insurance exchanges open for enrollment on Oct. 1.
Aug 13 1-2:30
Register
SBIRT for Adolescents Webinar
August 14 1-4
Register
Special Populations: SBIRT and Marijuana Use and SBIRT and Child-bearing Age Women
Aug 15 2-3:30
Register
Marijuana SBIRT
Aug 29 3:30-5
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CLMHD Calendar
Monday September 9th
CLMHD Mentoring Workshop in Syracuse NY: Double Tree Inn
Please return your registration forms buy Aug 30, 2013. SAVE THE DATE: CLMHD Fall Full Membership Meeting:
Monday-Tuesday
September 23-24, 2103
Genesee Grande HotelSyracuse, New York |
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August 8, 2013
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 Medicaid Global Spending Cap Report
The Fiscal Year 2014 Enacted Budget extended the Medicaid Global Spending Cap through March 2015. Pursuant to legislation, the Medicaid Global Spending Cap will increase from $15.9 billion to $16.4 billion in FY 2014, roughly 3.2 percent. The CPI used on Medicaid services subject to the trend was 3.9 percent (ten year average of the Medical Care Consumer Price Index), however there were several adjustments made to the Global Cap target that are not subject to the trend. Read the report
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New York State Rethinks Medicaid Seeks to Relocate Thousands of Low-Income Patients
To bring down its soaring Medicaid budget, New York state wants to move thousands of low-income patients from hospitals, homeless shelters, group homes and nursing facilities into apartments.
The state says many of the people it wants to shift don't need the expensive, residential medical care they now receive, which is paid for by the state and by a crucial financial match from Medicaid, the federal program that provides health care for the poor.
Instead, the patients would live in what is known as supportive-housing apartments, which provide services such as counseling, budgeting help and coordination of medical care. Read more
Millions of Americans Could Lose Food Stamp Eligibility, Putting Health at Risk
Study Probes Health Impact of Proposed Changes to Food Assistance Program
 A new study from the Health Impact Project-a collaboration of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trusts-examines the potential health impacts and health-related costs of proposed changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) now under consideration by Congress.
The analysis found that as many as 5.1 million people could lose SNAP eligibility; among these are 1.4 million children and nearly 900,000 older adults. The proposed changes could also increase the number of Americans who live in poverty and who have difficulty getting enough to eat.
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 PTSD and Alcoholism can be Treated Together
Despite fears that exposure therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) would worsen alcoholism, a new study found that doctors can safely treat both conditions at the same time.
Researchers found that people with PTSD and alcoholism benefited the most from simultaneous treatments to reduce alcohol cravings and lessen distress, compared to people on other treatment regimens.
"What we found is that those people who received [medication] plus prolonged exposure therapy for alcohol dependence together with the treatment for PTSD did the best for maintaining their low level of drinking," Edna Foa, the study's lead author, told Reuters Health. Read more.
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Open Position
 Director of Community Services FOR SCHUYLER COUNTY needed in growing community in the Finger Lakes Region of NY. Typical work activities of the Director of Community Services include, but are not limited to: coordinating community mental health,
developmental disabilites and substance abuse services; directing treatment of patients in facility provided by the mental health agency; planning, organizing and supervising psychiatric rehabilitation services; and coordinating mental health services with other authorized public health agencies and groups. Read more.
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