Advancing Public Policies for People with Mental Illness, Chemical Dependency or Developmental Disabilities
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The SAMHSA Recovery Month Toolkit is Here!
Get a jumpstart on your September 2014 event planning with the newly launched Recovery Month Toolkit. This year's toolkit, which celebrates the 25th anniversary of Recovery Month, highlights the theme "Join the Voices for Recovery: Speak Up, Reach Out."
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SAMHSA:
Crisis Services: Effectiveness, Cost-Effectiveness, and Funding Strategies here
Medication-Assisted Treatment for Pregnant and Parenting Women: To address substance use disorders. Access the webinar materials here.
Concluding Mental Health Awareness Month:
To increase awareness and help educate Americans about mental health, SAMHSA has released a series of blogs that discuss important issues for the behavioral health community and the nation. Click on The Power of Prevention.
SAMHSA: Crisis Response Systems
Wednesday, June 18,
2:00-3:30pm
Innovative State and Local Crisis Response Systems
Tuesday, July 1, 2:00-3:30pm Innovative State and Local Crisis Response Systems
Tuesday July 15, 2:00-3:30pm Innovative State and Local Crisis Response Systems
A Review of Successful but Stressful Integration of Behavioral and Primary Care
CLMHD Data Dashboard: Extracting CPS Reports Dialogue
How Evolving Technologies Can Enhance Outcomes In Your Addiction & Recovery Support Programs June 24 @ 2PM here
SAMHSA Webinar: Continuing Medical Education
Transitioning to DSM-5 and ICD-10-CM
July 8th 3-4:40 here
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JUNE: 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 JULY: Children & Families Comm. July 8th 11:30-1:00 GTM Call in Officers and Chairs Conference Call July 9th 8:00-9:00 Call in Mental Hygiene Planning July 10th 11:00-2:00/41 State Street CLMHD/OMH/DOH
Health Home Call July 17th 11:00-12:00 TBD Dev. Disabilites Comm July 21st 11:00-12:00 GTM Call in CLMHD Directors' Meeting July 22nd 10:30-Noon GTM Call in Executive Committee 12:30-2:00 GTM Call in Fiscal Officers Workgroup July 29th 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 PlazaCLMHD Members: Register Here
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Class action says United Healthcare violated mental health and addiction law
United Healthcare is being sued by customers who allege it denied claims for mental health and substance abuse-related health benefits and violated the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008.
United Healthcare and United Behavioral Health "systematically and improperly" denied mental health and substance abuse-related insurance benefit claims based on internal policies and practices that violated health insurance plans and the federal parity act, it is alleged. Read more.
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Anderson Cooper takes part in an experiment to help understand how people live with mental illness. Watch the Video
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Anderson wore headphones that simulate hearing voices while trying to do everything from puzzles to simply interacting with people in the street.
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Mental illness often makes headlines after tragedies like last week's deadly shooting at Seattle Pacific University. A number of mental illnesses, including schizophrenia, can cause auditory hallucinations. It's important to know that only a tiny number of people who hear voices engage in violence of any kind. Anderson took part in an experiment to help people understand how others live with mental illness experience everyday. Anderson wore headphones that simulate hearing voices while trying to do everything from puzzles to simply interacting with people in the street.
Clinical psychologist Pat Deegan designed the experiment. She was diagnosed with schizophrenia as a teenager.
Cuomo Adds 100 Officers to Units Fighting Heroin
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo is nearly doubling the number of investigators assigned to narcotics teams around New York to fight the growing drug issue.
The announcement comes as the resurgent abuse of heroin has been discussed intensively in Albany. For weeks, lawmakers have been meeting treatment providers, insurance companies and families who have lost relatives to overdoses to discuss heroin addiction and the opioid pill abuse that serves as a frequent gateway to heroin. Read more.
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The Surprising Driver of NYC's Long Life Expectancy
A report published earlier this year in the journal Population and Development Review shows that average life expectancy in New York City increased dramatically in New York City between 1990 and 2010.
During that 20-year stretch, life expectancy for female New Yorkers rose by nearly 4 years, and life expectancy for males increased by 6 years. Much of this increase is attributable to reductions in deaths related to HIV/AIDS, homicide, drugs, and alcohol. Effective public policies and public health interventions have been critical to these improvements. Read more.
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Governor Cuomo Announces Funding Increase to Support Special Education Providers
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Schools working with children with special needs will receive 3.8 percent increase in reimbursement rates.
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Schools benefitting from this increase serve students with diverse and complex needs who have not been able to succeed in traditional education settings. Students at these schools face circumstances such as trauma, mental health issues, substance abuse, emotional or physical disabilities, or involvement with the juvenile justice, social service or child welfare system. Read more.
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Teens with Addiction Have Few Recovery Programs
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Substance abuse is traumatic for parents, who have trouble accessing treatment for their children.
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Deborah Scott's 13-year-old daughter had been receiving hospital treatment for heroin addiction for 20 days when a representative from her insurance company called to say they would no longer cover the treatment.
Scott's daughter had eight more days to go, and she was nowhere near ready to return home, her doctors said. Scott gathered medical practitioners on the phone and tried to dispute the claim. It was no use. Her daughter needed to be picked up from the hospital right away.
Read more.
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Niagara governments mull joint health coverage
LOCKPORT - Most of Niagara County's 21 local governments were represented Tuesday at a meeting to hear about the possibility of joining into a single health insurance consortium in hopes of eventually saving money. Read more.
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CMS Announces Opportunity to Apply for Navigator Grants in Federally-facilitated and State Partnership Marketplaces
Navigator" program will continue to help consumers understand health coverage options as they enroll in coverage
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced the availability of funding, totaling $60 million, to support Navigators in Federally-facilitated and State Partnership Marketplaces in 2014-2015. Navigators provide unbiased information to consumers about health insurance, the Health Insurance Marketplace, qualified health plans, and public programs including Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program. Read more.
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