Feb. 20-23 | Anaheim, CA
Apr. 9-11 | Sacramento, CA
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MEMBER NEWSLETTER
February 7, 2018
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by Rusty Selix
Three completely unrelated events over the past month make it clear our state approach to behavioral health is going to change dramatically in the coming years.
Diverting 'incompetent to stand trial' to community programs
The governor’s budget includes $130 million offering counties opportunities to establish diversion programs for people who are deemed incompetent to stand trial. As Mike Wilkening, undersecretary of the Health and Human Services Agency explained, their research showed most of the individuals who are charged with felonies that led to an incompetent to stand trial claim had 15 or more previous misdemeanor arrests...
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CBHA's first Executive Advocacy Day at the Embassy Suites Sacramento Riverfront Promenade and state Capitol was a great success! Member agencies met with their district representatives and advocated key behavioral health issues affecting that affects the population they serve. There were 35 attendees from member agencies and a whopping 49 meetings were scheduled with legislators!
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Check out the photos below and on
Twitter
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See our previous policy forums and advocacy days:
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Brian Thompson of Uplift Family Services, CBHA Executive Director Paul Curtis,
Asm. Eloise Gomez-Reyes, and
Eva Terrazas of Uplift Family Services.
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Le Ondra Clark Harvey, CBHA director of policy and legislative affairs,
Charlene Dimas-Peinado of Los Angeles Child Guidance Center, and Eliza Caliolio, CBHA communications and membership manager
with Asm. Reggies Jones-Sawyer after an engaging discussion about AB 1250 and other behavioral health concerns.
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Sara Kahoalii, CBHA program and operations director, Steve Eckert of Alum Rock Counseling, Camille Schrader of Redwood Community Services, Mary Bush and
Laurie Clothier of River Oak Center for Children, and Jay Calcagno, CBHA's new policy and legislative coordinator.
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SAVE THE DATE
May 23 | California State Capitol
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Feb. 20-23 | Anaheim, CA
CBHA Member: $1300 / MMA Non-Member: $1600
Contact Sara Kahoalii at skahoalii@cccbha.org or at
(916) 557-1166 xt30 for more information.
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Apr. 23-25 | Washington, D.C.
Friday, Feb. 9 is the last day to register at the Early Bird rate.
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April 9-11 | Embassy Suites Sacramento Riverfront Promenade
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Join us to learn about current policies, help elect our next Board officers and advocate for behavioral health programs and funding! Confirmed presenters are:
- Chuck Ingoglia, National Council for Behavioral Health
- Jennifer Kent, DHCS
- Steve Ramsland, Catalyst Health Resources
April 9 - Policy Subcommittee Meetings (Adults & Older Adults, Childrens, & SUDs), Board Dinner/Meeting
April 10 – Policy Presentations & Annual Membership Meeting with Elections
April 11 - Advocacy Day
Don't miss the membership dinner at Mulvaney's B&L on April 10th!
NOTE: For accuracy of meal count and reservations, select "Will Attend Membership Dinner" button at registration.
Please contact Jay Calcagno, policy and legislative coordinator at jcalcagno@cccbha.org for scheduling appointments. For general inquiries, contact Eliza Caliolio, communications and membership manager at ecaliolio@cccbha.org.
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FULL REGISTRATION (with meals):
$445
Members:
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Attendance for both days is strongly encouraged, as members will be given information during the Policy Forum to utilize during their legislator appointments. Having a strong presence at the Capitol is critical to our advocacy efforts. CBHA will make the appointments and provide member talking points and materials.
CBHA recommends schedule your return flights later than 6:30 PM as meetings may last throughout the day. Special room rate of $219.00 ends Mar. 17
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Feb 20 | 3 PM
Join CBHA and Dr. Janet Anderson Yang, Ph.D, ABPP for
Mental Health Services for Older Adults with Co-Occurring Cognitive Impairment
. This webinar will address working with clients who have a mental illness and a co-occurring cognitive impairment. We will briefly review different types of cognitive impairment that can occur in clients with mental illness. We will review tools which can be used to assess and monitor degree of cognitive impairment. Medi Cal regulations with regard to providing mental health service to persons with co-occurring cognitive disorders will be reviewed. Mental health interventions which can be effective will then be explored. These will include person-centered and supportive psychotherapy, reminiscence therapy, behavioral interventions and a brief look at the intervention “Restore, Empower, Mobilize.”
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Interested in co-hosting a webinar with us? Please contact us!
Our March Webinar Focus will be Children’s Behavioral Health.
Children’s Providers:
Do you have information you’d like to share with other CBHA agencies such as navigating funding sources, implementation of new programs, or other best practices you feel would help others? Participate in CBHA’s new educational program where we'll host your hour-long webinar presentation and handle all the technical preparation. Interested? Email Director of Programs and Operations, Sara Kahoalii at
skahoalii@cccbha.org
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The purpose of this Information Notice (IN) is to clarify the required components for reimbursement of residential treatment in the Drug Medi-Cal Organized Delivery System (DMC-ODS) pilot program.Click headline to for more information.
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It’s time to participate in the survey that serves all kinds of nonprofits in all 48 Northern California Counties.
600 nonprofit organizations, reporting on over 33,000 jobs, participated in the 2017 survey, published by Oakland-based Nonprofit Compensation Associates (NCA), making it the largest and most robust in the survey's 39-year history, and the 5th year in a row the survey broke its participant record!
72% of the 2017 survey's participants see hiring challenges in the year ahead, and they foresee increased competition from their colleagues and businesses to attract and retain the "best and brightest" employees.
Your organization will need the wealth of information produced by the 2018 survey to compete effectively on this ever-changing playing field, including valuable information about compensation, base pay, employee benefits, salary increases and personnel policies, as well as data that larger nonprofits can use to justify to the IRS the compensation they pay their executive employees.
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The survey covers a vast geographic area, from Del Norte County in the far northwest to Inyo County in the far southeast. And NCA continually strives to serve both larger and smaller nonprofit organizations, as well as those from both urban and rural counties. To see how they do this, visit
www.nonprofitcomp.com/message.html
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If you don’t already have a copy of the 2017 survey report, you can take advantage of NCA’s annual 2-for-1 offer. You can purchase the 2017 report at 50% off, if you prepay at the same time for the 2018 survey at the discounted participant rate.
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April 5-6, 2018 | Holiday Inn Sacramento Downtown
The Symposium will consist of high-quality presentations relating to strategies that are culturally relevant, focused on the unique needs of the substance use disorder population, and focused on strategies and tools for successful implementation.
Please click the header to register.
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Feb. 8 | 2-3:30 PM EST
- Learn about health consequences associated with alcohol use and women.
- Discuss the importance of screening all women for alcohol use and identify best practices to intervene to help women cut down or quite alcohol use.
- Receive tools and resources for integrated care providers specific to alcohol use and women.
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Ryan Haight Restriction on Psychiatric and Addiction Medications
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Dear Association Executives:
The National Council has been working hard here in DC to lift the Ryan Haight restrictions that pose an obstacle to the prescribing of psychiatric and addiction medications. Many of you are familiar with the background from our last board and association meeting in October. In a nutshell, prescribing of controlled substances (such as ADHD medication or medication-assisted treatment for opioid addiction) without a prior face-to-face visit is generally barred unless the location where the individual is receiving services is registered as a hospital or clinic with the DEA.
In general, controlled substances can be prescribed via telemedicine if:
- A prior in-person evaluation of the patient has occurred by the prescriber; OR
- The originating site is registered with the DEA as a hospital or clinic.
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The National Council is working with Members of Congress to identify a legislative solution that would establish an exemption from the in-person evaluation requirement for mental health and addiction treatment facilities. We are also working with DEA to push them to establish a special registration process that would allow behavioral health provider organizations and sites to register with DEA.
If your members are experiencing difficulties with teleprescribing under the Ryan Haight Act, please feel free to reach out to me and let me know. It’s helpful to our advocacy efforts to hear about specific examples where these regulations are impeding access to care, and I am always happy to share the latest updates from the Hill. Thank you!
Rebecca Farley David
Vice President of Policy and Advocacy
National Council for Behavioral Health
Direct: (202) 684-3735
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CBHA affinity members 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.
VALANT
:
Providers extend empathy toward their patients, but an over-extension of one's capacities can lead to problems. Compassion fatigue is a significant problem in the behavioral healthcare industry. Under certain circumstances, it can even have ethical or legal implications. Preventing the onset of compassion fatigue is a matter of creating and sticking to an effective prevention strategy. In our blog post,"
How to Prevent Compassion Fatigue
"we cover five important steps in doing so. Click
here
to read more!
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