Transforming Mental Health Care in Texas

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Transforming Mental Health Care in Texas

• A. Kathryn Power, M.Ed., Director
• Center for Mental Health Services

March 9, 2006 Austin, TX
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Federal Partners Workgroup
Department of Health and Human Services
AoA HRSA HHS/OS ACF IHS - ASPE
AHRQ NIH/NIDA - OCR CDC NIH/NIMH - OD
CMS - OPHS SAMHSA

• Other Partners
• Department of Agriculture
• Department of Education
• Department of Defense
• Department of Housing and Urban Development
• Department of Justice

Department of Labor Department of
Transportation Department of Veterans Affairs
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Social
Security Administration
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Veterans and Their Families An Emerging Mental
Health Care Challenge
Photo courtesy of U.S. Army
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Transformation Workgroup Priority Areas

• Suicide prevention
• Integration of primary and mental health care
• Financing
• Employment and transition
• Disaster and emergency response

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Transformation Workgroup Key Areas

• Access and early intervention
• Child and youth service systems
• Consumer and family driven services
• Youth-guided care
• Criminal and juvenile justice
• Homelessness and housing
• (Continued)

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Transformation Workgroup Key Areas

• Information technology
• Public education
• Research activities
• State system transformation issues
• Workforce issues, and
• Emerging issues.

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Information Technology The Electronic Bridge

• Collaborative planning and record sharing across
  service systems
• Increased access to services in underserved areas
• Reduced fragmentation of services
• Workforce development
• Public information and education

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Common Features of Successful Transformation SIG
Applicants

• A very active and invested Governor and dynamic
  leaders in pertinent government agencies
• Collaboration across agencies, with the private
  sector, and within communities
• A strategy for sustainability and the expansion
  of services
• Activities built on existing strengths and the
  leveraging of other grant monies to enhance SIG
  funds
• Consumers and families who are active in and
  central to the process.

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Fundamental Concepts of Recovery

• Self direction
• Individualized and person-centered
• Empowerment
• Holistic
• Non-linear
• Strengths-based
• Peer support
• Respect
• Responsibility
• Hope

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Bridging the Quality Chasm
Transformation
The behavioral health care that we know to be
effective
Focus on recovery
The behavioral health care that Americans receive
Consumer-driven
Evidence-based practices
Health IT
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The Commissions Vision
We envision a future when everyone with a mental
illness will recover, a future when mental
illnesses can be prevented or cured, a future
when mental illnesses are detected early, and a
future
when everyone with a mental illness at any stage
of life has access to effective treatment and
supportsessentials for living, working,
learning, and participating fully in the
community.
New Freedom Commission Achieving the Promise
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• Our work is before us. It cannot be passed to
  future legislatures and must not be passed to
  future generations. May we boldly seize the
  moment with singular unity.

?Governor Rick Perry State of the State Address,
2005