ACMHA 2005 Summit: Tracking the Transformation

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ACMHA 2005 SummitTracking the Transformation

• Small Group Recommendations

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Special Thanks to

• Group 1
• Areta Crowell, NMHA of Greater LA
• Kim Carter, Albuquerque, NM
• Group 2
• Tom Borneman, The Carter Center Mental Health
  Program
• Paula Comunelli, Felton, CA
• Group 3
• Joyce Burland, NAMI Education, Training, and Peer
  Support Center
• Nicki Glasser, Boston, MA

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Special Thanks to

• Group 4
• Eunice Hartman, Hartman and Associates
• Group 5
• Ann Brand, Transition Solutions
• Deborah Fickling, Santa Fe, NM
• Greg Teague, Tampa, FL
• Group 6
• Carole Farley Toombs, Strong Behavioral Health
• Nick Ossorgin, Santa Fe, NM

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Group 1 Recommendations

• Obtain all recommendations of the Presidents New
  Freedom Commission Report
• Ensure consumers, youth, and families drive the
  design and implementation of mental health
  recovery services
• Define and operationalize recovery in terms of
  its processes and outcomes
• Emphasize a continuum of recovery

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Group 1 Recommendations

• Cultural competency and diversity
• Build in ways to evaluate the transformation
  process and maintain accountability during the
  transformation process
• Eliminate barriers of Medical Necessity-driven
  funding
• Realign financial incentives with recovery
  transformation

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Group 1 Recommendations

• De-stigmatize mental illness through direct
  contact, education, and legislation
• Make this conference process consumer/family-drive
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Group 2 Recommendations

• Adopt a public health approach to mental health
• Promote integrated service delivery systems
• Gauge audience, tailor messages, apply marketing
  principles, and select the most effective
  messenger to influence power

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Group 2 Recommendations

• Closely monitor Medicaid and other funders and
  develop a strategy to partner
• Challenge assumed constraints
• Create an effective culture shift to achieve
  transformation

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Group 3 Recommendations

• Change starts with a Burning Platform
• Imagine the change you have decided upon
• Anticipate resistance. Find the champions of
  change
• Confront the Brutal Facts
• Stay away from structure
• Establish a rational funding system

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Group 3 Recommendations

• Reach outside of the formal mental health world
• Recognize that states are KEY to the
  transformation process
• Involve people with psychiatric disabilities and
  their families at the most significant levels
• Recognize that mental health staff in agencies
  are suffering too

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Group 3 Recommendations

• Support states by having ACMHA track the
  transformation with web/teleconferencing
• Increase diversity and inclusivity at the next
  Summit
• Hold a Success-Off instead of a Whine Off
• Commit to individual transformational work back
  home poster board our progress at the next
  Summit.

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Group 4 Recommendations

• Ensure voices of consumers are used in all ACMHA
  initiatives
• Incorporate natural allies outside of the
  behavioral health arena
• Determine what would an ideal health delivery
  system look like if we were no longer concerned
  about the influence of stigma

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Group 4 Recommendations

• Promote discussion of the paradoxes between
  integration and parity using ACMHA as a forum
• Develop a Technical Assistance Center for
  transformative initiatives through ACMHA
• Develop a national plan that is more than vision
• Include Innovation and Transformation Skill
  Development in ACMHAs leadership agenda

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Group 5 Recommendations

• Engage with healthcare
• Use our strengths to collaborate
• Educate, educate educate. Train, train, train
  everywhere.
• All players accept responsibility for
  transformation
• Form coalitions that work

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Group 5 Recommendations

• Align business and financial models
• Dont stop with what we know look outside
• Be at the table in healthcare financing
• Use technology to mobilize advocacy
• Use NFC to focus decisions and judge financing
  proposals.

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Group 6 Recommendations

• Adopt the IOM ten rules
• Develop strategies to shift/share the power
• Assess the shift of perception/perceptual change
  among consumers, families, and providers
• Infuse the world with the recovery resiliency
  paradigm

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Group 6 Recommendations

• Support the development of the evidence regarding
  outcomes with WRAP and other self-help tools
• Develop inclusive strategies to overcome existing
  silos
• Recommend active advocacy component
• Make quality and outcome information available to
  consumers and family members

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Group 6 Recommendations

• Develop strategies to eliminate mental health
  disparities
• Develop strategies to promote social
  transformation
• Increase consumer and family education to
  facilitate a control shift