# Presentation: 697554

## A. Kathryn Power, M.Ed., Director

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

## The trail has been blazed . . . 

**The trail has been blazed . . . **
**It will ever remain **
**an historical precedent—****never to be erased!**
*	**Rebecca Latimer Felton*

## 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 Goals

**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.**

## 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***

## Recovery Is...

- 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 Recovery-Oriented System

- A Recovery-Oriented System

## SAMHSA Consumer-Directed Recovery Activities

- Access to Recovery
- Recovery Community Services Program
- Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services  	Program for Children
- Consumer/Peer Operated Services Program
- Survey of Organized Consumer Self-Help Entities
- Annapolis Coalition
- Peer Supported Recovery Resource Kit

- SAMHSA Consumer-Directed Recovery Activities

**Find out more at www.samhsa.gov **

## Progress Toward Achieving the Promise

- 93% have initiatives for individualized, person-centered treatment plans.
- More than half of the State agencies are developing a Comprehensive State Mental Health Plan.
- 11 State agencies are working to provide consumers participation in the allocation of resources for their own care.  Four States are developing voucher systems.

- Progress Toward Achieving the Promise

## Progress Toward Achieving the Promise (continued)

- 63% have mental health courts.
- Every reporting State agency is implementing at least one adult evidence- based practice.
- 94% are measuring client outcome measures.

- Progress Toward Achieving the Promise *(continued)*

## Transformational Leaders . . .

- Can come from any walk of life . . .
- 	from any sector . . . with any type of experience;
- Mobilize others around a shared vision of recovery;
**Dare to **_**do**_**!**** **

## T = (V + B + A)  (CQI)2

**The Transformation Equation**

**T = (V + B + A) ******** (CQI)****2**

**Transformation ******** **
**(Vision ******** Belief ******** Action) ******** (Continuous Quality Improvement)****2**

## Mental Health System Transformation

***A new start in behavioral health . . .******Your opportunity to press forward into ******new territories of recovery!***

- Mental Health System Transformation