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October is
Bullying Prevention Month
Learn More Bullying Prevention: 5 Tips For Teachers, Principals, And Parents Approximately 32 percent of students report being bullied at school. Bullied students are more likely to take a weapon to school, get involved in physical fights, and suffer from anxiety and depression, health problems, and mental health problems. They suffer academically (especially high-achieving black and Latino students). And research suggests that schools where students report a more severe bullying climate score worse on standardized assessments than schools with a better climate. Learn more.
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WEBINARS & Resources:
Event Recap:
A Conversation About Improving Outcomes in Treatment for Co-Occurring Substance Use and Mental Health Disorders
here.
New:
Interactive Online Toolkit for Preventing Teen Dating Violencehere. New: Improving Health Literacy for Vulnerable Populations: New Fact Sheet Series here. Recent analysis of data from the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being further confirms that youth who have been referred to child welfare have higher than average adverse childhood experiences that directly correlate with future health challenges. Webinar: New Health Insurance Options for Former Foster Care Youth Coming in January
Monday, October 28th at 10:00 am
Register Webinar: Implementing Evidence-Based Practices in Behavioral Healthcare: An Overview
November 13th 2pm Register |
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NOVEMBER:
Officers and Chairs
November 6th
Mental Hygiene Planning
Children & Families Committee call w/Donna Bradbury Presenting on kids MRT & HH's
- open to ALL DCS.
November 18th 10:30 - 12:00
CLMHD Committee Day
November 19th
10:00 - 4:00
Officers and Chairs
December 11th
8:00 AM (call in)
Mental Hygiene Planning
December 12th 11:00-2:00 Go To Meeting TBD
Director's Meetings
December 17th 10:30 - Noon Executive Committee Meeting
12:30 - 2:00 41 State Street Suite 505 Albany, NY 12207
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Medicaid Growth Is Outside NYC Borders
The New York City Independent Budget Office released a detailed dissection of the state's Medicaid program yesterday, and some of the trends it identified are surprising. Since 2008, with the onset of the economic downturn, most of the enrollment growth in Medicaid has been outside New York City.
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Therapists Explore Dropping Solo Practices To Join Groups
In the corporate world of American health care, psychologists and other mental health therapists are still mostly mom-and-pop shops. They build their own solo practices, not unlike Lucy in the Peanuts comic strip gang who hung her own shingle: "Psychiatric Help, 5 [Cents] - The Doctor is In."
But the business model for therapists is shifting away from solo practices and toward large medical groups, say mental health experts. That change is propelled by the Affordable Care Act, which mandates mental health benefits in insurance coverage, and by the Mental Health Parity Law, which requires private and public insurers to cover mental health needs at the same level as medical conditions - by charging similar copays. Read more.
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NY State of Health Continues To Sign Up Tens of Thousands of New Yorkers For Low-Cost Health Insurance
 The NY State of Health (NYSOH), the official health plan marketplace, reported that as of 9am, today (10/23) nearly 174,000 New Yorkers have completed the full application process and were determined eligible for health insurance plans since the Oct. 1 launch. New York State's completed applications make up more than 30 percent of the total applications completed nationwide. To date, 37,030 New Yorkers have fully enrolled for health insurance through the NY State of Health marketplace. Additionally since Oct. 1, the state's customer service center operators have provided assistance to more than 77,000 New Yorkers. Read
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Cuomo signs law to let families disclose Jonathan's Law reports about NY abuse of disabled
 Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday signed a law to end prohibitions on families using reports that their disabled children and other relatives were abused in New York state facilities.
Since 2007 under the reform act known as Jonathan's Law, state reports of abuse and neglect were provided to families. But they were stamped "confidential -- do not disclose." That hindered families from pursuing abuse cases involving their loved ones through legal action and even to refer the case to law enforcement. Families saw that as an obstacle to removing repeat offenders. Read more.
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 Statewide People First Waiver & Transformation Agreement
Monday Nov. 18th, 11 am to 1pm
- Bernard Fineson-Queens (VC 2)
- Brooklyn-Brooklyn (Large Conference Room)
- Broome-Binghamton (State Street)
- Broome-Ithaca
- Broome-Norwich
- Capital District-Saratoga (Large Conference Room)
- Capital District-Schenectady (Building 3, Room 2)
- Central NY-Rome (Liberty Street - North Conference Room)
- Central NY-Syracuse (Northern Concourse - Regional Training Center)
- Finger Lakes-Elmira
- Finger Lakes-Rochester (25 Leaf)
- Hudson Valley-Tarrytown (Room A)
- Hudson Valley-Thiells (Bldg 9 - OMEGA Room 123)
- Long Island-Hauppauge (Large Conference Room)
- Metro NY-Manhattan (Activities Center)
- Staten Island-Staten Island (Bldg 13K Training Room)
- Sunmount-Plattsburgh
- Sunmount-Potsdam
- Sunmount-Tupper Lake (Bldg 3, 2nd Floor Conference Room)
- Taconic-Kingston
- Western NY-Fredonia
- Western NY-Perrysburg
- Western NY-West Seneca (Bldg 16, Meeting Room 2-49)
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MyPSYCKES ADVISORY GROUP
Thursday October 31,
9:00am- 3:30pm. Lunch will be provided
Make recommendations about MyPSYCKES to help promote person-centered care and shared-decision-making Contact your Regional Advocacy Specialist to register by October 29th:
Hudson River Region Sites: Rockland PC, OMH Central Office, (Albany)
Mitchell Klein 845-454-8637
Mitchell.Klein@omh.ny.gov
New York City Region Sites: NYC Field Office (Manhattan), Bronx PC, Creedmoor, South Beach PC, (Staten Island), Kingsboro
Celia Brown 212-330-6352, mailto:Celia.brown@omh.ny.gov Digna Quinones 212-330-6386, Digna.quinones@omh.ny.gov
Western Region Sites: Rochester PC, Buffalo PC
Randolph Hill 716-533-4085
Randolph.hill@omh.ny.gov
Central Region Sites: Central NY Field Office, (Syracuse), St. Lawrence PC, (Ogdensburg),
Greater Binghamton Health Center, Elizabeth Patience 315-426-3930, Elizabeth.patience@omh.ny.gov
Long Island Region Site
Pilgrim PC, Leon Marquis or Elizabeth Breier
631-761-2044 or 631-761-3334
Leon.marquis@omh.ny.gov
Elizabeth.breier@omh.ny.gov
MyPSYCKES
is a new and innovative, web-based program designed by OMH and used by recipients of mental health services and their treatment teams. MyPSYCKES promotes shared decision-making and patient-centered care through several tools, including: CommonGround, peer-staffed Decision Support Centers, access to Medicaid treatment histories, and an online recovery library.
Review the MyPSYCKES program and its implementation in New York State, hear from peers working with the MyPSYCKES program in outpatient clinics, and give your input on the most important things to know about the program to assess its value for recipients of services, as well as clinicians and those paying for services.
For more information about MyPSYCKES, visit:
http://www.psyckes.org
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A Good Night's Sleep Scrubs Your Brain Clean
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New research finds that a newly discovered system that flushes waste from your brain is mostly active during sleep.
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"We have a cleaning system that almost stops when we are awake and starts when we sleep. It's almost like opening and closing a faucet -- it's that dramatic," says Dr. Maiken Nedergaard, co-director of the Center for Translational Neuromedicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center. Read more.
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It's national Lead Poisoning Prevention Week
 The Health Department is trying to get the word out about how families can keep their kids safe.
Today, childhood lead poisoning is considered the most preventable environmental disease among young children, yet approximately half a million U.S. children have blood lead levels above 5 micrograms per deciliter, the reference level at which Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), recommends public health actions be initiated. A simple blood test can prevent permanent damage that will last a lifetime. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), CDC, is committed to eliminating this burden to public health.
NLPPW Toolkit - Get the Word Out
Read more
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Social Work Students Explore Corrections, Mental Health System
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School of Social Work alumna Jen Terrero, right, a Syracuse Police Department officer and panelist at this year's Stone Legislative Policy Symposium, speaks with a social work student after the panel discussion, "Experiential Perspectives on Correctional Settings." Photo courtesy of Social Work Professor Alejandro Garcia
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Jails and prisons have become the nation's largest psychiatric institutions, especially for low-income persons and persons of color.
The National Sheriffs' Association reports that in virtually every county across the country, county jails hold more people with severe psychiatric illness than any psychiatric facility in that county. More often than not, these facilities are under-equipped to address mental health and related substance abuse problems. Read more. |
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