# Presentation: 038900

## Slide 1

**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***

## 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 supports—essentials ******for living, working, learning, and participating fully in the community.”****New Freedom Commission on Mental Health*

***Achieving the Promise in Kansas...***
***        ******and Across the Nation***

- The Commission's Vision

## Progress Toward Transformation—

- 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****  **

***Achieving the Promise in Kansas...***
***        ******and Across the Nation***

## 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*

***Achieving the Promise in Kansas...***
***        ******and Across the Nation***

## Recovery—A 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 one’s own life**

***Achieving the Promise in Kansas...***
***        ******and Across the Nation***

## The Federal Action Agenda:Fundamentally Altering the Mental Health System 

**Features the five principles around which the New Freedom Commission on Mental Health framed its vision, cross walked with the NFC’s six goals**
**Describes the “state of success” ****for each principle**
**Highlights current activities** **and proposes Year-1 action steps for ****each principle**

- The Federal Action Agenda:**Fundamentally Altering the Mental Health System**** **

## 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**
**Department 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**

***Achieving the Promise in Kansas...***
***        ******and Across the Nation***

## Transformation ↔ Collaboration

- Transformation ↔ Collaboration

**Across the Federal Government****—****Federal Partners Workgroup and the Federal Executive Steering Committee**
**Across SAMHSA and its three centers—****Internal Matrix Workgroup for Transformation**
**Across and between all levels of government—****State Incentive Grants for Mental Health Transformation**
**In partnership with consumers and their families**

***Achieving the Promise in Kansas...***
***        ******and Across the Nation***

## SAMHSA/CMHS 2005 Priorities for Transformation

- SAMHSA/CMHS 2005 Priorities for Transformation

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

***Achieving the Promise in Kansas...***
***        ******and Across the Nation***

## NREPP Federal Register Notice

**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@samhsa.hhs.gov**

**Visit ****www.samhsa.gov****, and click on           “National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices FRN” under the “Quick Picks” section.**

## ...There comes a time in every person’s 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. 

***Achieving the Promise in Kansas...***
***        ******and Across the Nation***

*...****There comes a time in every person’s 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