 May 8, 2014 National Children's Mental Health Awareness Day
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Advancing Public Policies
for People with Mental Illness,
Chemical Dependency or
Developmental Disabilities
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Information for Faith Based Leaders: Here The SAMHSA-HRSA Center for Integrated Health Solutions (CIHS) continually updates its website to present the best and newest resources and information relevant to integrated primary and behavioral healthcare. Check out some of these new resources or just peruse the site The SAMHSA-HRSA Center for Integrated Health Solutions (CIHS) worked with experts to produce a variety of skill development trainings for members of the integrated care team. Social Workers, Addiction Treatment Professionals, Psychiatrists,Peer Specialists, Case Managers, BH Consultants, Frontline Staff. SAMHSA: Did you know you have free access to substance abuse and mental health data from major data collection systems through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Data Archive? - Download public-use data files in SAS, SPSS, Stata, ASCII, tab-delimited, and R formats.
- Analyze public use and restricted use data online a variety of online analysis tools.
- Learn about virtual desktop access to restricted-use data.
- Search through bibliographic files for publications based on SAMHSA data. ___________________
OMH: Conducting Multicultural Spirituality Groups in Behavioral Health Settings is available to OMH Facilities and agencies licensed by OMH at not cost to providers. Learn more and schedule a training session here.
The DOH Balancing Incentive Program (BIP) Innovation Grant Fund provides for up to $45 million in Innovation Fund Grants to mitigate barriers to community based care in all regions of the state for Medicaid beneficiaries with long term care needs. More here. |
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April:
Children & Families Comm.
April 8th
11:30-1:00 GTM call in
Officers and Chairs
Conference Call
April 9th
8:00-9:00 Call inMental Hygiene PlanningApril 10th
11:30-2:00 41 State Street
CLMHD/OMH/DOH
Health Home Call
April 17th 10:00-11:00
OMH Housing Call
April 23rd
10:00-11:00 Call in
CLMHD Spring Full Membership Meeting
Monday & Tuesday
April 28th & 29th, 2014
Saratoga Springs Holiday Inn
Register here.
Contact CLMHD for all call in information, 518.462.9422
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 The County Health
Rankings measure the health of nearly every county in the nation.
The County Health Rankings provide a health snapshot for nearly every county in all 50 states. See how well your county is doing on 29 factors that influence health, including smoking, high school graduation, employment, physical inactivity, access to healthy foods, and more.
Published online at countyhealthrankings.org, the Rankings help counties understand what influences how healthy residents are and how long they live.
This County Health Rankings Key Findings Report explores national and regional trends and offers an in-depth review of how five featured measures-children in poverty, college attendance, preventable hospital stays, smoking, and physical inactivity-influence health.
Related:
Trying to Close a Knowledge Gap, Word by Word. Several campaigns are seeking to help the young children of poor and immigrant families by urging parents to spend more time talking to them. More
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Inadequate Housing Contributes to Low Health Rankings. Almost one out of five U.S. families live in housing with severe problems, such as overcrowding, insufficient cooking and bathing facilities or costs above 50% of family income, according to a new report measuring the nation's healthiest and least-healthy counties. More.
Mental Health Care Lacking in Some Counties.
Some of the nation's counties have only one mental health provider per 55,989 people, a study released Wednesday shows. The shortage complicates efforts to fight stigma and get help for those most segregated by mental health issues.
In other counties, there's one therapist for every 72 people, according to the County Health Rankings and Roadmaps study, which included mental health for the first time this year.
"We really want to draw attention to mental health care and the need for it," said Abbey Cofsky, senior program officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Those who live in the West and Northeast are most likely to have better access to a provider.
The Affordable Care Act requires insurers to cover mental health as they would physical health, but insurance does little good if no one exists to provide the care.
"Insurance is only the first step," Cofsky said. "We need to have providers in place to treat."
Even in counties with ample mental health care, the challenge is finding a way to use access to improve overall mental health.
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St. Joseph's in Syracuse collaborating with Lewis County General Hospital
 Mark Murphy, senior vice president for system development at St. Joe's. He says the deal focuses on primary care access in the community, specifically home care, ambulatory care, and behavioral health services, like mental health, which can be in short supply in rural communities. He says the bottom line is to keep services local.
"Health care is best provided in the communities in which people live," Murphy said. "Especially if you are looking at proactive behavioral health and ambulatory care services. Patients shouldn't have to travel for those services." Murphy explains how it would work for someone who might need psychiatric services. "Primary care doctors identify patients who need the services of a psychologist or psychiatrist," Murphy explained. "There isn't one available in the community. But using tele-medicine, we schedule a visit in that primary care office with that psychiatrist here at St. Joe's Hospital, and the consult happens in the physician's office in Lewis County while the physician is here at St. Joseph's Hospital." He says primary care doctors are at the center of this collaboration, and expects to see more of these kinds of consolidations between big medical centers and smaller hospitals in the future.
Read more.
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Autism rates rise 30 percent in two-year span: CDC
 Autism in the United States remains on the rise, according to new government statistics.
One in 68 children have an autism spectrum disorder, according to the new numbers released Thursday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The statistics, collected in 2010 from 8-year-olds at 11 U.S. sites, reflect nearly a 30 percent rise in rates of the developmental disorder over the course of only two years. Read more.
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NYS Extends Deadline to Enroll in Affordable Care Act exchange
New York state will allow residents more time to apply for health insurance via the state's online marketplace, known as an exchange. The delay mirrors one announced by President Obama's administration. That delay is supposed to apply only to people who have tried to apply for health insurance, but run into the now-notorious technical difficulties that plagued the federal exchange website, which covers the residents of almost 40 states.
New York state will offer a similar grace period. It's not immediately clear how many people it will affect, or how long the grace period will last. That is according to CDPHP, a health insurer based in Albany, NY. Open enrollment was supposed to end March 31. Read more.
Related: Poll: Majority of Uninsured Don't Know About March 31 Deadline
Do I Really Have to Sign Up? Last-Minute Obamacare Answers
Accountable Care Organizations & You: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) for People with Medicare
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New NCQA Patient-Centered Medical Home Standards Raise the Bar:
Focus on Integration with Behavioral Health
 The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) today updated the nation's most widely adopted way of organizing and evaluating patient-centered medical homes (PCMH) by releasing the latest generation of NCQA medical home standards, PCMH 2014. Get the standards, download here.
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Seizing the Opportunity: Early Medicaid Health Home Lessons
 This CHCS brief draws from the experiences of early health home adopter states to outline elements critical to implementation and sustainability of this new model. See also a fact sheet and infographic that summarize key points in establishing Medicaid health homes. Read the brief.
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Do Mentally Ill People 'Scare' You? Well, These Famous People Are Certainly Not Scary. 
The Madvocate blog created these thought-provoking images by copying Google searches of mental illnesses and pasting them on famous people who had them. It's interesting to see the negative stereotypes and misconceptions about mental illness on some of the world's most recognizable, successful people. More.
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 The 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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