“The mission of the Mental Health Division is to promote recovery and safety.”
Consumer and Family-Run Community Mental Health Services
Substitute House Bill (SHB) 2654 directed the Department of Social and Health Services to prepare a report on strategies for developing consumer and family run services. In response to that legislation, Washington State Mental Health Division (MHD) Director Richard Kellogg has convened a Work Group of mental health consumers, family members, and mental health stakeholders to develop the report in cooperation with MHD. The Work Group includes:
• Adult mental health consumers, service recipients, and advocates
• Youth consumers and advocates
• Parents and caregivers of children and youth receiving mental health services, including representatives of SAFE-WA
• Family members of adult consumers, including representatives of NAMI
• Clubhouse advocates
• Other advocates for youth and family services
• A representative of the Regional Support Networks
• MHD Office of Consumer Partnership and additional MHD staff to support implementation
The 2654 Work Group is developing the report for submission to MHD by September 2008 through a series of day-long work sessions in April, July and September 2008 to review and decide on content for the report. Work Group members are involved in group and individual efforts to develop the report in between these meetings. Key requirements from the legislation to be addressed in the report include:
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• A plan for implementation of consumer and family
run services in Washington
• Amendment of the mental health waiver and state plan related to utilization of Medicaid for financing services provided by community service agencies,
• Identification of funding and resources needed for implementation of these services,
• Recommendations related to licensing and certification requirements that should be applied to community service agencies,
• Recommendations related to assuring the services provided by community service agencies are integrated with other treatment services, and
• Technical assistance needed to assist community service agencies to organize and become licensed or certified and eligible for receipt of Medicaid funding.
MHD has contracted with TriWest Group since 2007 to support an array of activities related to redesign of Washington's benefit package for publicly-funded managed behavioral health care, and this contract continues through September 2009 to support MHD's ongoing implementation of benefit plan changes. As part of that work, MHD directed TriWest Group to facilitate the stakeholder group and report development process. TriWest Group is a consulting company with offices in Boulder, Colorado and Seattle, Washington and has helped several other states re-design their behavioral health benefits and managed care systems to better promote evidence-based and promising practices, as well as consumer and family-driven services.
Strategies for Developing Consumer and Family Run Services: Report to the Legislature |
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| Strategies for Developing Consumer and Family Run Services: Report to the Legislature | 2009 |
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Contents of Working Documents for SHB 2654 Work Group |
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Year |
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| Substitute House Bill 2654 legislation | 2008 |
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| Draft Report Outline and Work Group Members’ Roster | 2008 |
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| Work Group 2 Presentation (August 6, 2008) | 2008 |
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| Work Group 1 Presentation by Andrew Keller | 2008 |
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Work Group Meeting Notes |
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| Work Group - April 29, 2008 Meeting Notes | 2007 |
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| Meeting Minutes - March 20, 2008 | 2008 |
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Work Group Agendas |
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| Work Group Agenda-August 6, 2008 | 2008 |
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| Work Group Agenda-April 29, 2008 | 2008 |
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Contents of SHB 2654 Work Team Meeting Notes and Agendas |
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Work Team Agendas |
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| Work Team - Draft Agenda for June 24, 2008 Meeting | 2007 |
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| Work Team - Draft Agenda for July 14, 2008 Meeting | 2008 |
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Work Team Meeting Notes |
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| Work Team - May 27, 2008 Meeting Notes | 2008 |
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| Work Team - June 6, 2008 Meeting Notes | 2008 |
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| Work Team - June 24, 2008 Meeting Notes | 2008 |
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Certification, Credentialing and Funding Subgroup Agendas |
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| Certification, Credentialing and Funding Subgroup -Draft Agenda for July 16 & 21, 2008 Meetings | 2008 |
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Certification, Credentialing and Funding Subgroup Meeting Notes |
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2008 |
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Technical Assistance Subgroup Agendas |
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| TA Subgroup - Draft Agenda for June 30, 2008 Meeting | 2008 |
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| TA Subgroup - Draft Agenda for July 15, 2008 Meeting | 2008 |
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Technical Assistance Subgroup Meeting Notes |
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| TA Subgroup - June 30, 2008 Meeting Notes | 2008 |
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Recovery and the Consumer Movement Resources |
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| Name |
Year |
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| WA State Clubhouse Directory (updated 8-08) | 2008 |
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| "Person-Directed Services and Supports Demonstrating Mental Health Recovery Through Person Centered Planning and Self-Directed Services and Supports" (Michael Hlkebechuk) | 2005 |
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| "Recovery and the Conspiracy of Hope" (Patricia Deegan, Ph.D.) | 1996 |
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| "National Consensus Statement on Mental Health Recovery" (U.S. DHHS) | 2004 |
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| "The Optimism of Uncertainty" (Howard Zinn) | 2004 |
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| The Patient as a Policy Factor: A Historical Case Study of the Consumer/Survivor Movement In Mental Health" (Nancy Tomes) | 2004 |
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| "What is Recovery? A Conceptual Model and Explication" (Nancy Jacobson, Ph.D. & Diane Greenley, M.S.W., J.D.) | 2006 |
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Consumer Run Services Resources |
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Year |
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| Annotated Bibliography on Consumer-Operated Services (D. Sommers et al) | 1999 |
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| References for research pertaining to consumer/family-run services | 2008 |
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| "Statewide Transformation Initiative Mental Health Benefit Package Design-Community Support Agency Certification Excerpt" (TriWest Group) | 2008 |
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| AACP Guidelines for Recovery Oriented Services | 2008 |
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| "Consumer/Survivor-Operated Self-Help Programs: A Technical Report" (SAMHSA) | 2001 |
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Employment and Work Resources |
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Year |
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| Making Supported Employment Services Pay for Themselves - An Ongoing Challenge for Providers" (St. Luke's House, Inc) | 2008 |
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| Evidence-Based Supported Employment: Helping People Build a Working Life" (Deborah R. Becker, M.Ed., Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center) | 2008 |
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| "Entrepreneurship: One Road to Recovery" | 2008 |
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| "Systems Strategies to Impact Employment Outcomes" (Steven Reeder, M.Ed., CRC, CPRP and Christine Johnson, M.A., CRC) | 2008 |
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| NAMHPAC 2008 CMHS Grantee Conference - Making Self-Employment Work for People with Disabilities" (David Hammis) | 2008 |
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| "Johnson & Johnson - Dartmouth Community Mental Health Program: Disseminating Evidence-Based Practice" (Drake et al) | 2006 |
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