News
Shared Decision Making in Mental Health Care
DMA is please to announce the important release of a report on Shared Decision- Making in Mental Health Care by SAMHSA. We were pleased to have contributed a background paper for the report entitled "Aids to Assist Shared Decision Making in Mental Health Care".
Richard Dougherty received the Walter Barton Distinguished Fellow Award
At a March 17, 2011 luncheon during its annual Summit, ACMHA, The College for Behavioral Health Leadership, ACMHA president Pamela Greenberg and president-elect Ron Manderscheid led summit participants in recognizing four professionals for distinguished service to the field. Click here for the full announcement.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts' Substance Abuse Strategic Plan
In Massachusetts, DMA has been facilitating the efforts of the Governor's Interagency Council on Substance Abuse and Prevention and the Dept. of Publc Health's, Bureau of Substance Abuse Services to update the Commonwealth's Substance Abuse Strategic Plan, July 2010.
Behavioral Healthcare
In the June issue of Behavioral Healthcare, Dick Dougherty is quoted in an article by Brian Albright "Remaking behavioral healthcare - How five challenges of healthcare reform will shape our future." Check it out at www.behavioral.net
State Case Studies of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Systems
Russell Lyman recently completed a Commonwealth Fund report, State Case Studies of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Systems. He also presented on this subject at the 23rd Annual Research Conference in Children's Mental Health (March 2010) and at ZERO TO THREE's National Tranining Institute in Texas (December 2009).
2010 Timothy J. Coakley Award
The 2010 Timothy J. Coakley Award was presented by Dr. Dougherty to Lauren Spiro of the National Coalition for Mental Health Recovery to honor the lifetime achievements of Judi Chamberlin at ACMHA, The College for Behavioral Health Leadership's 2010 Summit in Sante Fe.
The Massachusetts Child Psychiatry Access Project: Supporting Mental Health Treatment in Primary Care
Wendy Holt recently completed a case study on the Massachusetts Child Psychiatry Access Project (MCPAP) for the Commonwealth Fund. MCPAP offers prompt (within 30 minutes of request) access to psychiatric consultation for any Massachusetts primary care physician serving children who chooses to participate. Based on the consultation, MCPAP can offer a psychiatric assessment and/or transitional therapy for the child in question, as well as assistance in locating community psychiatry and therapy for ongoing care. See The Massachusetts Child Psychiatry Access Project: Supporting Mental Health Treatment in Primary Care; Released by The Commonwealth Fund, March 2010.
Demonstration to Maintain Independence and Employment
DMA is pleased to be working with the Lewin Group and the State of Minnesota Department of Human Services on the final year of the Demonstration to Maintain Independence and Employment for employed people with mental illness at risk of disability. DMA will be assisting with focus groups, research and the preparation of issue briefs and special studies for dissemination. In addition, we are pleased to be partnered with Westat on several tasks within the Center for Mental Health Services.
SAMHSA Grant for MYCHILD
DMA is pleased to report the award of a 6-year $9 million SAMHSA grant to the Massachusetts Young Children’s Health Interventions for Learning and Development (MYCHILD). MYCHILD is a collaboration of families, health centers, and child serving programs led by the MA Executive Office of Health and Human Services and the Boston Public Health Commission. Its goals are to identify Boston children through age 5 who have or are at high risk for SED, and provide them with family-directed, individualized, coordinated and comprehensive services. DMA worked with EOHHS and its partners to facilitate the design of the program and drafted the proposal and budget.
Accessing Children's Mental Health Services in Massachusetts
On October 29, 2009 DMA staff and the Lewin Group were pleased to present to a meeting of over 200 professionals, the findings of our report for the Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation of Massachusetts Foundation entitled Accessing Children's Mental Health Services in Massachusetts: Workforce Capacity Assessment. The report is the nation's only comprehensive survey of the work of children's mental health professionals. It documents what many knew from experience - that many psychiatric and other practices are full in parts of Massachusetts, families face challenges in finding the right provider because of the lack of the right information and more than half of the providers of all ages plan to leave the field or the state in the next five years.
New York Mental Health
DMA Health Strategies is pleased to announce the release of our report on the New York Adult Ambulatory Mental Health System with our analysis, findings and recommended options for restructuring. The report and letter from the Commissioner can be found on our reports page.
Washington State Mental Health
DMA also recently completed a comprehensive review and analysis of options for Washington State’s mental health system. The report describes the various managed care options that the state can consider, with their associated advantages and disadvantages in Washington. That report can be found here.
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Events & Conferences
2011 Pillars of Peer Support Conference
At the 2011 Pillars of Peer Support Conference, Dr. Dougherty presented a talk on Peer Driven Health teams. The conference was held at the Carter Center on September 26, 2011.
International Initiative for Mental Health Leadership
Dr. Dougherty presented a poster session on Basic Needs: Building Individual, Family and Community Capacity for Mental Health at the International Initiative for Mental Health Leadership inSan Francisco in September, 2011.
2011 National Smart Start Conference
D. Russell Lyman, Ph.D., and Wendy Holt, M.P.P. presented Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Systems: State Innovations for Change at the 2011 National Smart Start Conference held at the Joseph S. Koury Convention Center in Greensboro, North Carolina, on May 4, 2011.
The research for this presentation was supported by the Commonwealth Fund.
NYAPRS 7th Annual Executive Seminar on Systems Transformation
On April 27-28, 2011, Dr. Dougherty presented "Recovery Homes: Recovery and Health Homes under Health Care Reform" at the New York Association of Psychiatric Rehabiliative Services Collective sponsored 7th Annual Executive Seminar on Systems Transformation held at the Crowne Plaza in Albany, New York.
Training Institute 2010
With Joe Anne Hust and Brian Lombrowski, Dr. Dougherty co-led a workshop on the Building Bridges Self-Assessment Tool simulation as a recurring session at the Georgetown National Technical Assistance Center's Training Institutes 2010 in Washington D.C., July 14-18.
Academy Health's 2010 Annual Research Meeting
Boston Foundation Forum, June 2010
Michael Widmer of the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation presented a summary of findings from a White Paper developed by DMA and the MTF, Maximizing Value of Our Human Services Dollars. The Executive Summary is available and the full paper will be released shortly.
American Assoc. of Children's Residential Centers
Dr. Dougherty facilitated a simulation of the Building Bridges Self Assessment Tool with Bob Lieberman, Joe Anne Hust and Brian Lombrowski at the American Association of Children's Residential Centers conference in Boston on April 29, 2010.
National Assoc. of Children's Behavioral Health
Dr. Dougherty presented the Building Bridges Self-Assessment Tool as part of the session “From Rhetoric to Reality: Building Bridges” at the Annual Conference of the National Association for Children’s Behavioral Health, April 25-28 in Washington, D.C.
USF Research and Training Conference
Dr. Dougherty collaborated with Sylvia Fisher, Bob Lieberman and Brian Lombrowski to facilitate a simulation exercise of the Building Bridges Self-Assessment tool at a pre-conference meeting at the University of South Florida Research and Training Conference on March 6th.
US Psychiatric Congress
Representing BasicNeeds US at the US Psychiatric Congress in Las Vegas on November 2, 2009, Dr. Dougherty delivered a talk entitled BasicNeeds - Case Studies in the Mental Health and Development Model: Building on Local Voices.
New York Coalition on Children's Mental Health
Dr. Dougherty spoke to the New York Coalition on Children's Mental Health Services meeting on October 20, 2009 on Options for Ambulatory Restructuring reforms.
NYAPRS
At the NYAPRS 27th Annual Conference, “A Home, A Job and a Date on the Weekend” September 16 - 18, 2009 in Ellenville NY, Dr. Dougherty spoke with Bonnie Hopkins from Magellan Health on self-directed care.
NCCBH
Dr. Dougherty moderated a keynote session, the “Four Divas”, at the recent NCCBH conference in San Antonio. On the panel were Kathryn Power, CMHS, Linda Rosenberg, NCCBH, Sandy Forquer, Optum Health in New Mexico, Monica Oss, Open Minds.
USF Research and Training Conference
Dr. Dougherty presented with Bob Lieberman, Sylvia Fisher and Anne Kuppinger on the Building Bridges initiative on Tuesday March 3, 2009 at the University of South Florida Research and Training Conference.
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