News
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
USF Research and Training Conference
National Assoc. of Children's Behavioral Health
Representing Dr. Dougherty will be presenting on the use 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 and on April 26th at Annual Meeting for the National Association of Children’s Behavioral Health.
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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