Advancing Public Policies for People with Mental Illness, Chemical Dependency or Developmental Disabilities
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May 18-24 - National Prevention Week
For National Children's Mental Health Awareness Day: Monday May 12, 2014
SAMHSA will address the unique needs of young adults with mental health and substance use challenges on a webisode here.
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SAMHSA:
Quick Guides on Clinical Supervision of Substance Abuse Counselors here
Helping Administrators Develop Best-Practices Programs here
NYS OASAS
Subject: Upstate Programs Webex: Managed Care Overview for OASAS
May 29th 9:00-10:30
here
SAMHSA: Crisis Response Systems - Webinar Series
- Tuesday, June 3, 2014 2:00-3:30pm (EDT) Identifying the Outcomes and Financing of Crisis Response Services and Supports
- Wednesday, June 18, 2014 2:00-3:30pm (EDT) Innovative State and Local Crisis Response Systems
- Tuesday, July 1, 2014 2:00-3:30pm (EDT) Innovative State and Local Crisis Response Systems
- Tuesday July 15, 2014 ?2:00-3:30pm (EDT) Innovative State and Local Crisis Response Systems
NASMHPD: Addressing the Intersection of Trauma, MH Challenges & Substance Abuse May 29th 3:30-5 here SAMHSA: It Takes a Community: Learning Together about Tools and Strategies to Support People through Emotional Distress
SAMHSA: Public Listening Session on Confidentiality of Patient Records Regulations here June 11th 9:30-4:30
Extracting CPS Reports Dialogue
June 20th 12-12:30 here
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MAY:
Fiscal Officers Workgroup
May 27th
9:00-10:00 GTM Call in
JUNE:
Children & Families Comm.
June 10th
11:30-1:00 Call in
Officers and Chairs
Conference Call
June 11th
8:00-9:00 Call in
Mental Hygiene Planning
June 12th
11:00-2:00
41 State Street
CLMHD Committee Day-Cancelled
June 17th
OMH Housing Meeting
June 18th
10:00-11:00
44 Holland Avenue Albany
Fiscal Officers Workgroup
June 24th
9:00-10:00 GTM Call in
Contact CLMHD for all call in information, 518.462.9422
SAVE THE DATE:
CLMHD Fall Full Membership
Meeting/September 22-23, 2014
Lake Placid Crowne Plaza
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E-cigarettes More Popular Among People With Mental Health Conditions
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E-cigarettes have not been proven to help people quit smoking
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A new study found that electronic cigarettes are more popular among people with mental health conditions disorders than other smokers.
A nationally representative survey showed that people with mental health conditions like depression, anxiety disorders and so on, are more likely to be using e-cigarettes, to have tried them, and to be susceptible to use them in the future. Read more.
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CLMHD Training: Extracting CPS Reports Dialogue June 20th 12:00-12:30
Learn about new data extract functionality recently added to the County Planning System. The Dialogue will demo the priority outcome generator; focus and sub focus areas; show how to generate Excel or PDF reports; and demonstrate how to use word search for specific topic areas. Register here for the webinar. CLMHD Data Dashboard:
View Dialog Webinar IV: Inpatient Admissions Data here |
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NYS OASAS
Upstate Programs Webex:
Managed Care Overview
May 29th 9:00-10:30 - Register here.
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Doctors and other medical professionals will be required to enroll in the Medicare program to prescribe drugs that are paid for by the federal healthcare program, under a rule finalized Monday. Read more.
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MONROE - The New York State Justice Center has recommended the decertification and defunding of a Monroe agency that serves people with developmental disabilities following an investigation into charges of corporate mismanagement, financial self-dealing, Medicaid fraud and psychological abuse of clients. Read more.
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Few Americans Aware of Their Rights for Mental Health Coverage
APA survey reveals only 4 percent of Americans know about mental health parity law
Even though more than 1 in 4 Americans (27 percent) have received treatment or therapy from a mental health professional, few people know that health insurers are required to provide coverage for mental health, behavioral health and substance-use disorders that is comparable to coverage for physical health, according to a new survey from the American Psychological Association. Read more.
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Dozens Arrested in New York State Child Pornography Investigation
In what law enforcement officials have described as the largest-ever enforcement operation in New York going after people who "possess, produce or distribute sexually explicit images of children," 70 people have been arrested across the state and charged with crimes involving the exploitation of children.
The people arrested include two police officers, two registered nurses, a paramedic, an au pair, and an individual who served as both a den master with the Boy Scouts of America and a Little League baseball coach. Read more.
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 The NYS DOH is unveiling its first-ever "Youth Sexual Health Plan" to promote safe sex and prevent HIV and unintended pregnancies. It recommends offering HIV testing to anyone 13 years old or older who requests it and screening all young women for chlamydia, a sexually transmitted disease. And there's a Plan B. "Provide emergency contraception to youth ages 15 and older," the plan recommends. DOH will help local school districts establish "condom availability programs." The Health Department's 22-page guide for school districts and health clinics urges training to make youths "peer educators" who could provide HIV/STD counseling to their peers. Read more. |
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Thousands of Toddlers Are Medicated for ADHD, Report Finds
More than 10,000 American toddlers 2 or 3 years old are being medicated for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder outside established pediatric guidelines, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The report, which found that toddlers covered by Medicaid are particularly prone to be put on medication such as Ritalin and Adderall, is among the first efforts to gauge the diagnosis of A.D.H.D. in children below age 4. Doctors at the Georgia Mental Health Forum at the Carter Center in Atlanta, where the data was presented, as well as several outside experts strongly criticized the use of medication in so many children that young. Read more. |
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Medical Professionals Stand In The Way Of Care For The Disabled  Something curious was happening in the emergency room. Eight patients had come in within minutes of each other. Almost instantly, the junior resident, two interns and a medical student signed up for all of the them - except for one.
Half an hour passed, then an hour. As the senior resident doctor at the time, I supervised the others as they tended to the middle-aged man with chest pain, the elderly woman with a broken wrist and the teenage girl with a sore throat. Read more.
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Dutchess County:KILLERS AND PAIN:
Painkiller law sends users to heroin
 They started turning up in emergency rooms early last November. One after another and then another. By the time the torrent subsided in February, some 280 people had overdosed in Dutchess County from what many believed was heroin but was often street drugs laced with an exponentially stronger narcotic called fentanyl.
This horrific episode, in an epidemic of addiction that is sweeping the area and nation, killed seven county men, from 28 to 43 years old, from the town and city of Poughkeepsie, Wappingers Falls and Wingdale. Five were white; one was black, and one Hispanic, according to police. Read more.
Related: New York is a Hub in a Surging Heroin Trade
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Later evolving and maturing brain areas, which also are those most implicated in mental illness, showed gradually increasing heritability, peaking by late adolescence - the age-of-onset for most mental disorders. New findings hold promise for understanding how age plays an important role in gene-environment interactions that underlie the disorders. Read more.
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