[MHTF] FW: NOTICE: Webcast-Transforming State MH Systems

[Deborah Erickson-Irons]

Hello Everyone, This looks good and may be of interest to some of you on
the task force.  I'm unable to view it. Deb

 

Deborah Erickson-Irons

York Hospital Center for Community Health Promotion

The Choose To Be Healthy Partnership

207-439-6504

FAX: 207-439-8764

 

Location: 518 US Route One, Kittery Maine 

Mail: York Hospital, 15 Hospital Dr, York Maine 03909

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NGA Media Advisory

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
May 7, 2007
Contact: Christopher Cashman, 202-624-7787

EXPERTS TO DISCUSS TRANSFORMATION OF STATE MENTAL HEALTH SYSTEMS

 

Webcast First in a Series on Improving Mental Health Hosted by NGA
Center for Best Practices

WHO: Terry Cline, Administrator, Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Service Administration (SAMHSA)
A. Kathryn Power, Director, SAMHSA's Center for Mental Health Services
Wilma Townsend, President, WLT Consulting
Moderator: Gabriela Garcia, Policy Analyst, NGA Center for Best
Practices

WHAT:            Transforming State Mental Health Systems: Addressing
the Needs of Individuals and Planting the Seeds for Mental Health
Transformation.  This webcast will examine partnerships that support
transformation of mental health systems, offer perspectives on the
improved services transformed systems can provide and explore
implications for state government.

WHEN:            Thursday, May 10, 2007                     2:30 p.m. -
4:00 p.m. EDT

WHERE:          http://www.nga.org/webcast

Once believed to be debilitating, lifelong conditions, mental disorders
are now understood to be as treatable as most physical illnesses.
Today, given the right combination of treatment, support and a voice in
decisions concerning their care, people who formerly might have been
confined to life in an institution are able to live, work, learn and
participate fully in their communities.  With the current mental health
system designed specifically to provide long-term, custodial care to
people with mental illnesses, the concept of recovery represents a
seismic shift in attitudes, beliefs and priorities.

This will be the first in a series of three webcasts being co-sponsored
by the NGA Center for Best Practices, the Substance Abuse and Mental
Health Service Administration's (SAMHSA), SAMHSA's Center for Mental
Health Services, JBS International, Inc., Advocates for Human Potential,
Inc., and the National Association of State Mental Health Program
Directors (NASMHPD). For more information about mental health systems,
visit www.nga.org/center/health.

 

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