To aid in the recovery process, SAMHSA has

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• To aid in the recovery process, SAMHSA has
• Activated the SAMHSA Emergency Response Center
  (SERC)
• Provided 600,000 in immediate emergency response
  grants
• Awarded 5 million to send volunteer mental
  health and substance abuse professionals to
  Louisiana 
• Announced a National Crisis Lifeline
  1-800-273-TALK
• Provided ongoing technical assistance and support
• Begun to assess how to rebuild the mental health
  system in affected areas in the right way

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The Commission's 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 on Mental
Health
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Progress Toward Transformation

• Almost every State agency has adopted a recovery
  mission statement
• 93 have initiatives for individualized,
  person-centered treatment plans
• More than half of the State agencies are
  developing a Comprehensive State Mental Health
  Plan
• 61 of State agencies already have public
  information campaigns
• Every reporting State agency is implementing at
  least one adult evidence-based practice
• 94 are measuring client-outcome measures 

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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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RecoveryA Critical Concept to Transformation

• The process by which people are able to live,
  work, learn, and participate fully in their
  communities
• The ability to live a fulfilling and productive
  life despite a disability
• A reduction or complete remission of symptoms
• The ability to make important decisions affecting
  ones own life

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The Federal Action AgendaFundamentally Altering
the Mental Health System

• 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
• Describes the state of success for each
  principle
• Highlights current activities and proposes Year-1
  action steps for each principle

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Federal Partners
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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Transformation ? Collaboration
Across the Federal GovernmentFederal Partners
Workgroup and the Federal Executive Steering
Committee Across SAMHSA and its three
centersInternal Matrix Workgroup for
Transformation Across and between all levels of
governmentState Incentive Grants for Mental
Health Transformation In partnership with
consumers and their families
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SAMHSA/CMHS 2005 Priorities for Transformation

• Transformational Leadership
• Comprehensive State Mental Health Plans
• Individualized Plans of Care
• Elimination of Disparities
• Science to Services Initiative

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NREPP Federal Register Notice
Visit www.samhsa.gov, and click on
National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and
Practices FRN under the Quick Picks section.
Send comments to SAMHSA by October 25, 2005 By
U.S. Mail SAMHSA c/o NREPP Notice 1
Choke Cherry Road Rockville, MD 20857 By
E-mail nrepp.comments_at_samhsa.hhs.gov
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There comes a time in every persons lifetime,
that special moment when you are figuratively
tapped on the shoulder and offered that special
chance to do a very special thing, unique to you
and fitted to your talents.
Winston Churchill
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