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An electronic circular of the Coalition's Center for Rehabilitation and Recovery
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No. 38, July 2007
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The Center for Rehabilitation and Recovery provides assistance
to the New York City mental health provider community through
expert trainings, focused technical assistance, evaluation,
information dissemination and special projects.
The Center Presents at Peer Specialist Conference Center staff delivered a presentation entitled, “Making Recovery Happen in CDTs” at the first Peer Specialist Conference held on June 26th at the Hunter College School of Social Work. Drawing from The Center’s work on the Peer Recovery Pilot Project, a collaboration with DOHMH and the Howie T. Harp Peer Advocacy Center designed to demonstrate the effectiveness of consumer providers, Aaron Vieira organized a discussion on how to promote recovery-oriented services in Continuing Day Treatment (CDT) programs. Marc Kutner shared his experience providing technical assistance to a pilot site, Riverdale Mental Health Association, with the integration of two peer specialists into their CDT program. Marc described various ways in which peer specialists inspired hope among staff and consumers at Riverdale. The presentation emphasized that fully integrating peer specialists into treatment programs still requires much work, yet, consumers and staff exposure to effective peer specialists affirms the idea that recovery is possible. Center Training and Technical Assistance, 2007-2008: Supporting Organizational Capacity to Deliver Rehabilitation and Recovery Oriented Services In response to the numerous inquiries received over the past few weeks, we would like you to know that our training offerings and technical assistance opportunities will be detailed and publicized within the coming months. In addition to a number of new initiatives, The Center will continue to provide expert trainings on benefits and entitlements, employment and other best practices consistent with our mission. Additionally, we will continue to work in-depth with providers choosing to embark upon organizational changes consistent with recovery based approaches. Stay tuned for announcements and specifics. Center’s Youth Initiative: a. Guide to Services for Disconnected Youth Beginning in May, 2007, The Center has been in the process of creating a guide to services and supports written for disconnected youth in New York City between the ages of 16 and 26. Through our ongoing work with providers of services to young adults with Serious Emotional Disturbances (SED), we have gained an in-depth understanding of the systemic issues they face on a daily basis. We have also learned that young people with mental health challenges are often stymied when they do choose to seek services. In order to develop a guide that is both practical and appropriate to this population, Center staff are conducting a series of focus groups with young people across New York City. In June, two focus groups comprised of young adults (16-26 years old) from the Brooklyn Bureau of Community Service Adolescent Employment and Education Program, Mental Health Association of New York City’s Adolescent Skills Center, International Center for the Disabled YES program, Institute for Community Living Linden House, and Riverdale Mental Health Association Bronx WAVE and Handle It! programs provided valuable insight into all elements that a guide of this type should possess. Additional focus groups will be held at 2:00pm on July 10 and 12, 2007 at The Coalition’s 90 Broad Street offices, 8th floor Conference Room. If your agency is interested in participating in either or both groups, please email Marc Kutner as soon as possible bat [email protected] to discuss the details. b. Youth Initiative Work Group The Center’s Youth Initiative Work Group convened on June 20th to discuss how adult mental health services can better address the needs of young adults transitioning out of the juvenile system. Cailin McGreevey, Director of Mental Health, Covenant House of New York, Matthew Joffe, Director, LaGuardia Community College, Office for Students with Disabilities, and Blanca Gayoso, Assistant Director of Rehabilitation Services, FEGS Bronx Behavioral Health Services discussed innovative ways for adult service providers to augment existing programs and develop new solutions to make programs more attractive and appropriate to young adults. Although this was the last Work Group meeting of 2006-2007, The Center is happy to announce that the Youth Initiative Work Group will continue next year following a summer hiatus. In the coming months, The Center will be completing a comprehensive “white paper” identifying gaps in services for transition aged youth with serious emotional disturbances (SED) and recommendations for addressing those gaps. This white paper emerges from the in-depth topical discussions conducted by the Work Group and we thank all its participants for their ongoing strong representation throughout this year. For information about the Youth Initiative contact Amy Smiley, [email protected] or Alysia Pascaris, [email protected] . The WORKbook, 2nd Edition, Released in June 2007 On June 14th, 2007 The Center began citywide distribution of the 2nd Edition of the WORKbook, a Guide to New York City’s Mental Health Employment Programs. Available free of charge, approximately 12,000 hard copies were disseminated to consumers, providers and other stakeholders looking for in-depth knowledge about the range of employment services funded to address the needs of consumers of mental health services. Originally released in 2002, the WORKbook is an inventory of 106 discrete programs, across the 5 boroughs, offering a range of services and job placement types. We are pleased to announce that the 2007 edition is also available online at our website, www.coalitionny.org/ccrr/, in both searchable database and PDF formats. An online ordering system for additional hard copies will be launched within the coming weeks. All orders will be reviewed and accommodated to the best of our capability contingent upon quantity requested and current supply. Stay tuned for details. Education and Training Association For Ambulatory Behavioral Healthcare (AABH): 39th Annual Training Conference On July 29-31, 2007 AABH will host “Roots in Recovery: Empowering through PHP and IOP” at the Hyatt Regency Cambridge in Boston, MA. Presentation foci include the effectiveness of recovery-oriented services, and evidenced based knowledge, skills training and psychoeducation on the treatment of severe psychopathology in partial hospital and intensive outpatient contexts. For more information and to register, go to: http://www.aabh.org/2007%20Conference/2007BostonBroch.pdf
New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), Office of Consumer Affairs: MIND YOUR HEALTH Workshop Series, Upcoming Session Stress Affects Wellness: Let’s Do Something About It! This workshop on July 11, 5:00 – 7:00, at Fountain House, 425 W. 47th St. (between 9th and 10th Avenues) will provide simple and creative stress reduction techniques to consumers on how to enhance physical, emotional and spiritual wellbeing. For more information about future sessions, call (212) 219-5391. No pre-registration is required for this free series. Funding and Grant Opportunities New York City Administration for Children’s Services (ACS): “Community Partnership Innovative Procurement Phase III” RFP (PIN# 06807INV0001a)
Proposals are due: no later than 2:00 pm on August 6, 2007 To register online and view the RFP go to: http://a069-webapps5.nyc.gov/rfponline/RFPPublicView.jsp?rfpid=28&caller=current New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH): “Managed Addiction Treatment Services (MATS)” RFP (PIN #: 816 RFP 08HH748). DOHMH is seeking appropriately qualified vendors to establish, operate and expand the citywide Managed Addiction Treatment Services (MATS). MATS is a New York State OASAS initiative for voluntarily participating adults who are high cost Medicaid-eligible consumers of alcohol and other drug treatment services and require ongoing treatment. Interested participants must register online to view the RFP at: http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/acco/acco-rfp-mats-20070608-form.shtml and register on-line to view the RFP. Copies may also be picked up at 93 Worth Street, Room 812 between the hours of 9:00 am and 4:00 pm.
Pre-proposal conference: July 6, 2007 at 10:00 am, located at 22 Reade St., Spector Hall. Proposals are due: no later than 3:00 pm on July 18, 2007 and must be hand delivered to the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene 93 Worth Street, Room 812 Attn: Joyce Scott, Contracting Officer. Please contact Joyce Scott, Contracting Officer, at [email protected] if you have any questions. New York City Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD): “Out-of-School Time (OST) Programs for Youth - Elementary School Expansion Request for Proposals” RFP (Pin #: 26007OSTERFP) DYCD is seeking appropriately qualified organizations to expand the variety of year-round, comprehensive and high quality OST programs for children in elementary school, defined as kindergarten through grade 6. Interested participants must register online to view the RFP at http://nyc.gov/html/dycd//html/cbo-rfp-ost-school-expansion.html or pick up the RFP at 156 William Street, 2nd Floor. Pre-proposal conference: July 12, 2007, located at the New York City Technical College, Klitgord Center, 285 Jay Street, Brooklyn. The morning session will take place between 10:00 am and 12:00 pm. The afternoon session will take place between 2:00 pm and 4:00 pm Proposals are due: no later 2:00 pm on August 8, 2007 and must be hand delivered to the Department of Youth and Community Development 156 William Street, 2nd Floor Attn: Ava B. Walker, Deputy Agency Chief Contracting Officer. Please contact Ava B. Walker, Deputy Agency Chief Contracting Officer, at (212) 788-9961 or email at [email protected] if you have any procurement questions about the RFP. Please contact Nancy Russell, Project Director, at (212) 442-5914 or email at [email protected] if you have any content questions about the RFP. Coordinated Children’s Service Initiative (CCSI): Tier II Brooklyn Based Council (BBC) Meeting The NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) is attending CCSI’s Tier II Borough Based Council (BBC) meetings in June and July. During these meetings the department has discussed with families/parent advocates certain issues regarding the proposed restructuring of family support services. On Friday, July 13, 2007 from 10AM – 12PM, the Brooklyn Borough Based Council meeting will take place at the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office, 350 Jay St., 19th fl., Brooklyn, NY 11201, Contact: Robert Cizma, Jewish Child Care Association. No RSVP required. The four other borough based meetings were conducted throughout June and the beginning of this month.
New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH): New Executive Deputy Commissioner for Mental Hygiene Announced DOHMH has selected Dr. David Rosin, Statewide Medical Director for Nevada’s Department of Mental Health & Developmental Disabilities, to fill the position of Executive Deputy Commissioner for the Division of Mental Hygiene. This position was previously held by Dr. Lloyd Sederer, who is now the Medical Director for the State Office of Mental Health. Prior to his tenure in Nevada, Dr. Rosin was the Deputy Director for the South Carolina Department of Mental Health. He also spent some time in Africa directing the Emergency Medical Strike Force in response to the genocide in Rwanda, and practiced medicine in Virginia for 24 years.
New York State Office of Mental Health (OMH): a. Advisory on Antidepressants and the Risk of Suicide In response to certain concerns related to the risk of suicidality in pediatric patients taking certain antidepressants, on June 26, 2007 OMH issued an advisory to inform the public and professional community about recent evidence about the potential risks of antidepressant treatment (very small) and those of untreated depression (very large). OMH encourages depressed patients to seek treatment and encourages medical professionals to detect and treat depression in their patients‚ in pediatric‚ adult‚ and geriatric primary care settings as well as in mental health settings. To read this important advisory, go to: http://www.omh.state.ny.us/omhweb/sga_advisory/Anti-DepressantAdvisory.html
b. Briefings and Public Hearings on OMH’s Statewide Comprehensive Plan On June 11, 2007 OMH announced the schedule and format for the 2007 regional Statewide Comprehensive Plan for Mental Health Services forums. OMH encourages attendees to review the 2007 Update and Interim Report to the 2006–2010 New York Statewide Comprehensive Plan for Mental Health Services prior to these events. The Update can be found on the OMH website at: http://www.omh.state.ny.us/omhweb/Statewideplan/2006/interim_report/update/. These forums will consist of interactive discussions and more formal hearings to: provide stakeholders and the public with the opportunity to share their perspectives, priorities and experiences regarding the mental health system. For more information including dates and locations go to: http://www.omh.state.ny.us/omhweb/News/Briefing_Hearing_Announcement.html
c. OMH Distributes Mental Health Outpatient Reimbursement Study On July 2, 2007 OMH released an important study reviewing the financing and reimbursement of mental health services provided by outpatient clinic, continuing day treatment, and day treatment programs licensed under Article 31 of the Mental Hygiene Law. The report was commissioned by the Legislature in the 2006-07 state budget. Work on the report was carried out by Public Consulting Group (PCG), under contract with the Office of Mental Health. To read the complete report, go to: http://www.omh.state.ny.us/omhweb/Provider_Reimbursement_System/report.htmlAmerican Psychiatric Association (APA): Select Abstracts from the June 2007 Psychiatric Services Journal: Adding Consumer-Providers to Intensive Case Management: Does It Improve Outcome? [Abstract] Applying Procedural Justice Theory to Law Enforcement's Response to Persons With Mental Illness [Abstract] Impact of Intimate Partner Violence on Unmet Need for Mental Health Care: Results From the NSDUH [Abstract] Is Telepsychiatry Equivalent to Face-to-Face Psychiatry? Results From a Randomized Controlled Equivalence Trial [Abstract] Quality of Care in a Medicaid Population With Bipolar I Disorder [Abstract] The Role of Medicaid Enrollment and Outpatient Service Use in Jail Recidivism Among Persons With Severe Mental Illness [Abstract] Treatment Adherence With Lithium and Anticonvulsant Medications Among Patients With Bipolar Disorder [Abstract] Treatment Prospects for Persons With Severe Mental Illness in an Urban County Jail [Abstract] Understanding and Preventing Criminal Recidivism Among Adults With Psychotic Disorders [Abstract] Using Pharmacy Data on Partial Adherence to Inform Clinical Care of Patients With Serious Mental Illness [Abstract] Validity of Electronically Monitored Medication Adherence and Conventional Adherence Measures in Schizophrenia [Abstract] WHO's Assessment Instrument for Mental Health Systems: Collecting Essential Information for Policy and Service Delivery [Abstract] To read these abstracts follow the above link. To view all articles in the current issue and to subscribe, please go to: http://ps.psychiatryonline.org/current.dtl Behavioral Healthcare: Select Titles, June 2007 Moving toward recovery and accountability Preventing suicide minute by minute Cornhuskers embrace community-based care Restoring hope by rebuilding cognitive skills Boston University Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation: Select Titles and Abstracts from the Current Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, Spring 2007 Integrating Religion and Spirituality in Mental Health: The Promise and the Challenge Spirituality and Religion in Recovery: Some Current Issues Integrating Religion and Spirituality in Mental Health: The Promise and the Challenge Spirituality and Religion in Recovery: Some Current Issues Relevance of Spirituality for People with Mental Illness Attending Consumer-Centered Services Spirituality Matters: Creating a Time and Place for Hope To view complete articles, subscription is required. To subscribe, please go to http://www.bu.edu/cpr/prj/ Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA): a. Partnership for Youth Transition (PYT) Initiative: On the MOVE: Helping Young Adults with Serious Mental Health Needs Transition into Adulthood This brief provides a snapshot of five PYT-funded sites in Maine, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Utah, and Washington. Topics include the unique challenges of moving from adolescence to adulthood for adolescents and young adults diagnosed with a serious emotional disturbance or serious mental illness, matching services to the needs of adolescents and young adults, and the Transition to Independence Process (TIP) Model. Data and preliminary findings from cross-sectional analyses of the PYT projects are presented. Federal and state policy recommendations and lists of resources and contacts are also included. The report is available at http://www.connectforkids.org/PYT_brief.pdf . b. Two New Briefs Outline Evidence-Based Practices and Care in Non-Traditional Settings for Those with Co-Occurring Disorders These two short papers from SAMHSA help treatment professionals, policymakers and others understand and address the needs of people with co-occurring substance use and mental disorders. Addressing Co-Occurring Disorders in Non-Traditional Service Settings: Overview Paper 4 and Understanding Evidence-Based Practices for Co-Occurring Disorders: Overview Paper 5 continue a series of brief introductions to knowledge from SAMHSA’s Center for Co-Occurring Excellence. Addressing Co-Occurring Disorders in Non-Traditional Service Settings: These papers are available at: http://ncadistore.samhsa.gov/catalog/productDetails.aspx?ProductID=17655 and http://ncadistore.samhsa.gov/catalog/productDetails.aspx?ProductID=17656 respectively. c. Updated Directory of Drug and Alcohol Abuse Treatment Programs Available On June 25, 2007 SAMHSA released its updated guide to finding local substance abuse treatment programs. The guide, National Directory of Drug and Alcohol Abuse Treatment Programs 2007, provides information on thousands of alcohol and drug treatment programs located in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and four U.S. territories. The directory includes public and private facilities that are licensed, certified, or otherwise approved by substance abuse agencies in each of the states. To access the guide, go to: http://ncadistore.samhsa.gov/catalog/productDetails.aspx?ProductID=17684 |
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