A. Kathryn Power, Director

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Building Public-Private Partnerships In Mental
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National Association of Psychiatric Health Systems
March 19, 2006 - Washington, DC
A. Kathryn Power, Director Center for Mental
Health Services
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Only through new and innovative partnerships can
we make a difference. Whether we like it or not,
we are dependent on the partners to bridge the
gap and achieve health for all. Gro Harlem
Brundtland Former WHO Director-General
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Achieving the Promise
Transforming Mental Health Care in America

• Mental health services must actively facilitate
  recovery
• A call for system transformation
• The goal Hope for a full life in the community
• Services and supports are consumer/child/family
  centered
• Focus of care must increase illness
  self-management and build resilience

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Problems cannot be solved at the same level of
awareness that created them. Albert Einstein
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Acute Care Work Group
Recommendations

• Establish a standard definition of acute care and
  establish evidence-based acute care standards
• Fully involve consumers
• Urge the use of alternatives to seclusion and
  restraint and restrictive transport modes
• Assess community readiness and community-based
  alternatives to inpatient and residential acute
  care
• Train the acute care workforce
• Create a single point for acute care information
• Develop innovative ways to finance the full
  continuum of acute care services

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The Federal Action Agenda
Transforming Mental Health Care in America

• Provides a model and promotes shared
  responsibility for change at the State and local
  levels
• Features the five principles around which the New
  Freedom Commission on Mental Health framed its
  vision, cross walked with the NFCs six goals
• Highlights current activities and proposes Year-1
  action steps for each principle

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Mental Health Transformation State Incentive
Grants

• The grants provide seed money to help States
  develop the infrastructure needed to transform
  mental health services
• Seven States-Connecticut, Ohio, Oklahoma,
  Washington, Maryland, New Mexico, and
  Texashave been selected to receive a 2.7 to 3
  million dollar per year investment, over the
  next 5 years
• States will unite all of their State agencies
  behind a common vision of mental health

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How to Get Partners to the Table
Lessons Learned

• Find common ground
• Speak to your prospective partners agendas 
• Identify a non-mental health champion
• Remain flexible
• Harness the power of a facilitated process
• Have patience

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Its not that Im so smart, its just that I
stay with problems longer. Albert Einstein
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