SAMHSANGA Center For Best Practices NASMHPD Regional Conference New Orleans, LA June 15, 2006

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SAMHSA/NGA Center For Best Practices/ NASMHPD
Regional Conference New Orleans, LAJune 15,
2006
Transforming State Mental Health Systems

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

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How Change Happens
The talented master has the ability to become a
leader who induces change. The leader can
transform separate individuals into cohesive
teams. So linked, these individualscan capture
the imagination of larger communities, enticing
them to dream new dreams. In the end,
excellence is infectious. Robert E. Quinn
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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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Lessons Learned

• To foster communication and collaboration across
  diverse agencies
• To align programs related to mental health such
  that the whole becomes greater than the sum of
  its parts
• To maximize the value that each partner brings to
  the transformation process

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Transformation is
life altering the process of continuous
evolutionary change driven by the dynamic needs
of the enterprise imbedded in the unpredictable
and the impossible a way to create something
completely possible from the perceived impossible
from Concepts of Transformation
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In a Transformed System...

• Recovery will be the guiding principle
• Consumers will direct their own care 
• Services will support prevention and treatment
• Disparities will be eliminated
• We will move science to service faster and more
  effectively  
• Services and supports will be available,
  accessible, and coordinated

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Essentials of Transformation

• Governor-led planning with participation by State
  agencies, community representatives, consumers,
  and family members
• Cross-agency collaboration
• A commitment to institutional change through
  strong leadership
• The real and meaningful involvement of consumers
  and family members in decisionmaking
• Workforce development, including the use of
  consumers as staff
• The widespread availability and use of effective
  practices

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Federal Partners Workgroup
Department of Health and Human
Services AoA NIH/NIDA ACF NIH/NIMH
AHRQ HHS/OS CDC - ASPE CMS - OCR
HRSA - OD IHS - OPHS SAMHSA
Other Partners Department of Agriculture Departmen
t of Education Department of Defense Department
of Housing and Urban Development Department of
Justice Department of Labor Department of
Transportation Department of Veterans
Affairs Social Security Administration
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Federal Action Agenda First Steps(available
online at www.samhsa.gov)

• Provides a model for shared responsibility at
  State and local levels
• Features the five principles around which the New
  Freedom Commission (NFC) on Mental Health framed
  its vision, cross walked with the NFCs six goals
  
• Describes the "state of success" for each
  principle
• Highlights current activities and proposes
  time-limited action steps for each principle

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Mental Health System Transformation
Use your power of one to achieve the promise of
transformation for many.
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