# Presentation: 400187

## Navigating New Pathways in 

**Navigating New Pathways in **
**Addressing Substance Abuse and **
**Mental Health Challenges:**
***Investing in Mental Health Transformation***

**7****th**** Annual Dr. Lonnie E. Mitchell**
**National HBCU Substance Abuse Conference**
**April 20, 2005**

**A. Kathryn Power, M.Ed., Director**
**Center for Mental Health Services**

## Chamique Holdsclaw

**Chamique Holdsclaw**

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## Mental Health and Addictive Disorders are on the Rise:

-        (The World Health Report *2001—Mental Health:  New Understanding, New Hope*)
- One in five Americans—44 million adults and 14 million children—live with mental disorders.
- Nearly 16 million people have a substance use disorder alone.
- In 2002, there were 4 million adults with a serious mental illness _and_ addictive disorder.

## Achieving the Promise:

- A call for system transformation.
- The goal: Hope for a full life in the community.
- Services and supports are consumer/child/family centered.
- Focus of care must increase illness self-management and build resilience.

**Transforming Mental Health Care in America**

## Transformation Is...

**...****a continuous process, without end...meant to ****	****create or anticipate the future  **
**...****identifies, leverages, and even creates new **
**    ****underlying principles for the way things are done**
**...****identifies and leverages new sources of power  **
**...****once the process is begun, a profoundly different **
**    ****organization emerges, including changes in **
**    ****structure, culture, policy, and programs.**

***Retired Vice Admiral Arthur Cebrowski,***
***	******Special Assistant for Transformation,  ***
***U.S. Department of Defense***

## A process, sometimes lifelong, through which a person achieves independence, self-esteem, and a meaningful life in the community.  
For some individuals, recovery implies the reduction or complete remission of symptoms. 
For others, recovery is the ability to live a fulfilling and productive life despite a disorder.  

- A process, sometimes lifelong, through which a person achieves independence, self-esteem, and a meaningful life in the community.
- For some individuals, recovery implies the reduction or complete remission of symptoms.
- For others, recovery is the ability to live a fulfilling and productive life despite a disorder.

- Recovery Is...

## Transformation Goals

**Goal 1****   Americans understand that mental health is essential to overall health.**
**Goal 2****   Mental health care is consumer and family driven.**
**Goal 3****   Disparities in mental health services are eliminated.**
**Goal 4****   Early mental health screening, assessment, and referral to services are common practice.**
**Goal 5****   Excellent mental health care is delivered and research is accelerated.**
**Goal 6****   Technology is used to access mental health care and information.**

## Goal 1

**Recommendations**
**1.1 ****—** Advance and implement a national campaign to reduce the stigma of seeking care and a national strategy for suicide prevention
**1.2 ****—** Address mental health with the same urgency as physical health

**Americans Understand That Mental **
**Health Is Essential to Overall Health**

## Goal 3

**Disparities in Mental Health Services are Eliminated.**

**Recommendations**
**3.1**** ****—** Improve access to quality care that is culturally competent
**3.2**** —** Improve access to quality care in rural and geographically remote areas

## SAMHSA/NAFEO internships for HBCU students
Minority Fellowship Program
HBCU National Resource Center  

**Minority Fellowship Program**
**HBCU National Resource Center**

- Workforce Development Initiatives

**www.samhsa.gov**

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## Goal 5

**5.1 —** Accelerate research to promote recovery and resilience and, ultimately, to cure and prevent mental illnesses
**5.2 —** Advance evidence-based practices (EBPs) using dissemination and demonstration projects and create a public-private partnership to guide their implementation
**5.3 —** Improve and expand the workforce providing evidence-based mental health services and supports
**5.4 —** Develop the knowledge base for—
-  Eliminating mental health disparities
-  Assessing long-term effects of medications
-  Reducing the impact of trauma
-  Improving acute care

**Goal 5**

**Excellent Mental Health Care Is Delivered and Research Is Accelerated**

## Evidence-Based Practices Implementation Resource Kits

- Illness Management & Recovery
- Medication Management Approaches in Psychiatry
- Assertive Community Treatment
- Family Psychoeducation
- Supported Employment
- Co-occurring Disorders:  Integrated Dual Disorders Treatment

## Mental Health System Transformation

- Mental Health System Transformation

***A new start in ***
***behavioral health...***
***New opportunities to move forward, together!***

**7****th**** Annual Dr. Lonnie E. Mitchell **
**National HBCU Substance Abuse Conference**