Advancing Public Policies for People with Mental Illness, Chemical Dependency or Developmental Disabilities
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Designing Medicaid Health Homes for Individuals with Opioid Dependency: Considerations for States here Cross-Disability Information and Support for Navigators
and Other Enrollment Specialists January 15th 2pm here
Self-Care is Primary Care
January 27th 2-3:30 here
AATOD's Nat'l Conference, Addressing a Public Health Crisis: Opioid Dependence held in Atlanta from March 28-April 1, 2015. Link here
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JANUARY:
Children & Families Committee Call In
Tues. January 13th 11:30-1
CLMHD Director's Meeting &
Executive Committee GTM
Tuesday January 27th
9:30-11:00 Director's 11:00-12:30 Exec.Comm. February:
Mental Hygiene Planning Thurs. February 5th 11:00-2:00 41 State Street OASAS Agency Meeting Wed. February 11th 1450 Western Avenue OMH Agency Meeting Wed. February 11th 44 Holland Avenue Executive Committee GTM Call-in Only Friday February 13th 11:00-Noon Children & Families Comm. Tuesday February 17th 11:30-1:00 GTM Only Developmental Disabilities Committee Thursday February 19th 3:00-4:00 GTM Only
Contact CLMHD for all call in information, 518.462.9422
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CHCS: Designing Medicaid Health Homes for Individuals with Opioid Dependency: Considerations for States
Although individuals with opioid dependency represent a small percentage of all Medicaid enrollees, they often have significant physical and behavioral health needs that result in high costs of care. States are looking for innovative, cost-effective ways to integrate and coordinate care for this high-need population. Through the Affordable Care Act, states can implement health homes to provide enhanced integration and care coordination for people with opioid dependency.
This brief highlights key features of approved health home models from Maryland, Rhode Island, and Vermont that are tailored to individuals with opioid dependency. It identifies important considerations in developing opioid dependence-focused health homes, including: (1) leveraging opioid treatment program requirements; (2) promoting collaboration across multiple state agencies; (3) supporting providers in transforming into health homes; and (4) encouraging information sharing. Access the
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DON'T MISS THIS!
CLMHD CPLP-NYS Medicaid DSRIP Dashboards Dialogue
Thursday January 29th 11:00 - 12:00 noon
CLMHD CPLP-NYS Medicaid DSRIP Dashboards Dialogue
Thursday January 29th 11:00 - 12:00 noon
The Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment (DSRIP) program is a key component of the $8B New York State Medicaid waiver that provides funding to fundamentally restructure and improve quality in the safety net health care system to focus on primary and preventive care and reduce avoidable hospital use. These dashboards were developed by DOH and Salient HHS to assist with planning, community needs assessment and application development for the DSRIP initiative.
What Data are Included?
- DSRIP Dashboards present Medicaid utilization and enrollment data made available by DOH.
- The data updates monthly to present the most current information for service dates 2011 through present.
- The data presented in these dashboards contain no member-specific health information of any type. In addition, any time a count of services or members falls between 1 and 10 inclusive, N/A will be displayed.
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Join us as we explore some local examples and discuss how this new data resource can aid your planning efforts!
CLMHD Medicaid DSRIP Dashboards Dialogue Registration
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Thursday, January 29, 2015
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11:00 am | Eastern Standard Time (New York, GMT-05:00) | 1 hr
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Register
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After your request has been approved, you'll receive instructions for joining the meeting. If you already registered for this meeting, you do not need to register again.
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Can't register? Contact support.
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WASHINGTON, DC-Not long ago, Paton Blough stood before a class of law enforcement officers to teach them effective ways to intervene with people with mental health needs. It's a topic Blough knows all too well: He's been arrested six times, in each instance while experiencing a mental health crisis. He remembers one arresting officer who wanted to help him.
"If there would have been an opportunity to take me some place besides an ER or a jail, he would've loved to have taken it," Paton told a crowded room during a Capitol Hill briefing last week. "We've got to get behind these programs that prevent problems, improve lives and save us money while making the communities safer."
Programs that can help reduce the number of people with mental illnesses in jails, ranging from police training to certified peer support, are the basis for a new wave of national efforts highlighted Tuesday as Congressional leaders joined the Council of State Governments (CSG) Justice Center and the National Association of Counties (NACo) to discuss potential federal reforms and a new national initiative driven by the two organizations. Read the briefing.
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My ex-husband died recently. Mike (not his real name) was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer two weeks before he passed away.
I'm sad he died so young - he was just 50 - but there's also an emotional distance. We separated more than 12 years ago. Our friends and I watched as Mike's severe mental illness and refusal to stay on his meds changed him from the person we all knew "before." He lost friends and family. Only his mother and one childhood friend regularly visited. The rest of us, well, the paranoia and abusive phone calls at 2 a.m. can push away even the most dedicated friend.
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Approximately 87% of Americans who selected 2015 health insurance plans through HealthCare.gov in the first month of open enrollment are receiving financial assistance to lower their monthly premiums. Read more.
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USA Today: Substance abuse treatment often impossible to find
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Joan Ayala now works has a mental health clinician trying to help others avoid her decades-long ordeal.
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When she was a young girl, Joan Ayala says she was sexually and physically abused by a family member, usually in his basement while her grandmother slept upstairs. Her family was no help, ripped apart as they were by alcoholism and mental illness.
People have far less sympathy for abused children who grow up and, like Ayala, turn to drugs or alcohol in an effort to dull their pain or feel like a "normal" person. The abuse she'd endured led her to use alcohol, marijuana and LSD at age 14. She dropped out of school soon after and began using cocaine at age 22, she says, because the high helped her "imitate," if not truly experience, the emotions of others her age. By 26, she was a hard-core cocaine addict. Later, she began using methamphetamine.
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Retired cop sues New York State for confiscating guns after insomnia treatment
A decorated retired New York cop who served in the U.S. Navy is challenging New York's tough new SAFE Act gun control law, claiming in a lawsuit that his guns were confiscated after he was mistakenly diagnosed as mentally unstable after he sought treatment for a sleeping problem. Read more.
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