SAVE THESE DATES:
'Preparing Your Agency for the Future'
Oct. 11-12, 2018
Newport Beach, CA
November 13-16
Pleasant Hill, CA
CBHA Advocacy Day
January 22-23, 2019
Sacramento, CA
(Registration opens Oct. 2018)
CBHA Mental Health First Aid Summit
February 21, 2019
(Registration opens Oct. 2018)
National Council for Behavioral Health's
NATCON19
March 25-27, 2019
Nashville, TN
Registration opens early September.
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MEMBERS NEWSLETTER
September 6, 2018
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2018 Legislative Season Update for CBHA
As many of you may be aware, our Director of Policy & Legislative Affairs, Le Ondra Clark Harvey, is on maternity leave and is spending time with her family and new son. We wish her the best during this time.
In the meantime, the staff is working closely together in her absence to stay on top of everything and I will be doing my best to keep you all informed of what’s been happening with our bills during the 2018 legislative season and with our efforts to prepare for the 2019 legislative season. It’s been a very busy year with some very good results. Our biggest success came on the budget side with the inclusion of $10 million in funding for the Workforce, Education & Training (WET) Program though OSHPD. CBHA took the lead on this effort but its success was due to a great coalition of supporters that Le Ondra put together. The funding for the final year of the WET Program will focus on loan repayment and education stipends. I think we should be very proud of the success in this area as it was one of the few requests for budget items in behavioral health that was included in the final budget.
With respect to the legislative session and bills, it was a busy time! We officially tracked 157 bills that touched on behavioral health in one way or another. However, we probably looked at well over 250 total. Of that amount, we were in ‘Support’ on 88 of the bills, had a ‘Watch’ on 68, and officially ‘Opposed’ one bill, AB 1250 (Jones-Sawyer). The full report is linked
here
for your review, but I’ll provide a final summary.
Of the overall bills, 18 have been ‘Chaptered’, meaning they passed through the Legislature and have been signed by the Governor.13 were Support bills and five were Watch bills.
Of the 157 bills total, we had 24 that were tagged as ‘Priority’ bills with 23 of those in Support and AB 1250 as an Oppose. Nine are awaiting the Governor’s signature and we are currently sending letters of support asking the Governor to sign the bills. The other 11 bills are officially dead as it’s the end of the current two-year Legislative session.
Of all the bills, there are five that have taken a lot of work and time on our part to ensure that the opinions and needs of our members are reflected in the final versions of these bills...
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CAREER CENTER
CBHA offers a list of current employment opportunities statewide. Promote your opportunity.
Go
here
to start. Members, sign-in to post.
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CBHA IS RECRUITING VOLUNTEERS FOR THE PROGRAM & MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEES!
Volunteering to be appointed to a CBHA committee is a leadership opportunity that shouldn’t be missed.
Application deadline is September 30, 2018.
For questions and additional information, email response@cccbha.org.
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CBHA Creates A New Membership Level for Smaller Nonprofit Behavioral Health Agencies.
The CBHA Executive Committee approved a new membership level for nonprofit agencies with mental health revenues under $500,000 starting July 1, 2018. To become a part of the CBHA community, fill out the CBHA
2018-19 membership application
.
For more information, email Ma Eliza Caliolio, communications and membership manager at
response@cccbha.org
or call (916) 557-1166 x20.
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2018 CBHA Fall Policy Forum
'Preparing Your Agency for the Future'
Oct. 11-12, 2018
Renaissance Newport Beach
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Special thank you to our Business Associate sponsors:
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November 13–16, 2018
3480 Buskirk Ave, Suite 300
Pleasant Hill, California 94523
"I really loved it. There are many techniques that I am implementing with my staff that I think will be helpful to improve teamwork and productivity." -
South Coast Community Services MMA Graduate 2018
CBHA is partnering with National Council to bring you Middle Management Academy. An in-person, 3.5-day group training program that offers management training for those in the behavioral health field.
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“Co-occurring Substance Use and Mental Health Services For the Justice-Involved Population”
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Sept. 10, 2018 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
ET
Online Via PsychU.org
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National Council for Behavioral Health
Launches a new project to increase youth engagement in mental health!
If you have always wanted to be a part of improving young people’s engagement in mental health supports and services, and want to be part of a ground-breaking project, we want to hear from you.
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Paper: Drug Medi-Cal Organized Delivery System
by California Health Care Foundation
A new CHCF paper,
Medi-Cal Moves Addiction Treatment into the Mainstream, outlines the experiences and challenges encountered by four early adopter counties: Los Angeles, Marin, Riverside, and Santa Clara. It also provides an overview of the DMC-ODS program and how it differs from the standard Drug Medi-Cal program. Click link above to access the paper.
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The National Council for Behavioral Health has released the advocacy guide,
Medicaid Managed Care Contracting to provide community behavioral health providers and associations talking points and sample contract language related to each issue they may face to use with their state Medicaid agency to ensure Medicaid managed care will enhance behavioral health access. It also presents key challenges to help address common contracting issues.
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MHSOAC Update: Request for Proposal (RFP) Immigrant and Refugee Survey
The Immigrant and/or Refugee Information Questions survey, which can be accessed at this
link is part of a broader effort to engage community voices in the creation of a Request for Proposal (RFP) designed to support the advocacy needs of immigrants and refugees.
Survey responses, questions, and feedback may be sent to Angela Brand, MHSOAC Stakeholder Program Lead, at:
angela.brand@mhsoac.ca.gov.
We kindly ask that all survey responses be sent to the Commission by Friday, September 14, 2018.
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CMS Announces New Model to Address Impact of the Opioid Crisis for Children
Model to focus on children in Medicaid and CHIP who have physical and behavioral health needs, including substance use.
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How the Smallest State is Defeating America’s Biggest Addiction Crisis
CRANSTON, R.I. — By the time police caught Paul Roussell with heroin last summer, the 58-year-old lobster fisherman had been addicted to the drug for almost 10 years...
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CBHA
Affinity Partners
offer approved services that benefit our members while supporting our advocacy efforts.
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We appreciate our
Business Associates
for their partnerships that both provide our members exceptional services and sponsor our advocacy efforts.
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FREE
: Exclusive Ways for Nonprofits to Fund Health and Unemployment Insurance
September 6, 2018 at 10 a.m. PST
If you are looking to manage increasing health insurance costs & better control unemployment claims, attend this
free webinar
designed specifically for nonprofit leaders.
Unemployment Services Trust (UST) and Nonstop Administration & Insurance Services, Inc.
know that the traditional models of health and unemployment insurance are cost-prohibitive for many nonprofits and that's why they've teamed up to share their insights and proven solutions aimed at lowering costs, mitigating risk and improving health equity for staff. If you're responsible for the financial management of a nonprofit with 10 or more employees,
register for the September 6th webinar here!
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Genoa Healthcare Rolls Out Its Integrated Pharmacy Model in California
Medication adherence is vital in managing any chronic disease, but it is especially critical in treatment for mental health and substance use disorders. Yet barriers such as stigma, lack of transportation or failure to attend appointments can make it difficult for people to manage their treatment.
At Genoa Healthcare, we’ve been focusing on ways to improve medication adherence for over a decade. Our more than 400 pharmacies are embedded in community mental health centers across the country – and this year, we opened our first California pharmacy. In fact,
our model has proven to help patients stay on their medications at a rate of more than 90 percent, compared to an average rate of about 50 percent with a traditional approach.
Click here to learn more about our approach to medication adherence through on-site, integrated pharmacies.
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