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Planning
In 2004 the CLMHD decided to formally undertake an initiative to strengthen the county planning process. Central to this initiative was the development of a planning process that would result in fully formed county plans that would inform a reestablished statewide 5.07 plan. During the first year of the initiative, the CLMHD established a Mental Health Planning Subcommittee that has helped to guide this initiative as well as set regular meetings with SOMH staff. Over time the work of this committee has helped to increase the availability of data and supporting tools to assist counties in the development of their annual plans. This section contains an overview of the initiative, reports, minutes and other technical assistance materials relevant to the planning process.
2010 Cross-Systems Planning Priorities Final Report
By statute, service planning is a core element of the responsibilities vested with the local governmental unit (LGU). Maintaining an effective, ongoing planning process helps to ensure that the voices of consumers, family members, and other stakeholders are heard-and used to shape refinements to the service delivery system. In order to provide a sense for the relative importance of the local priorities, counties were asked to indicate which of their priorities were among the top two for each disability. The report that follows provides an overview of this year's planning process, with a specific focus on those cross-systems priorities.
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2009 Plan for New York Mental Hygiene Services County and City Priorities
During 2008, the 57 County and New York City membership of the NYS Conference of Local Mental Hygiene Directors continued into the next phase of a multi-year planning initiative. Previous efforts related to this initiative consisted of the development of a County submission template, cross-agency collaboration during the submission process, and the creation of an online portal through which counties could submit and revise their planning priorities on an annual basis. As part of this process for 2008, counties had the option of submitting as many as nine or as few as three priorities. In addition to describing their priorities in narrative format, counties were asked to categorize their priorities using a drop-down list of focus areas that were developed based on the previous year's responses. Counties were asked to provide a narrative description of the specific strategies the County would employ to achieve each priority outcome. It was also requested that counties use a series of check boxes to describe their priorities along a number of dimensions (including target population, State agency, service category, and demographic information).
Highlights of this process and the results of the analyses are contained in the report below.
2009 Plan for New York Mental Hygiene Services County and City Priorities
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2008 Plan for New York Mental Health Services County and City Priorities
The NYS Office of Mental Health, OASAS, and CLMHD agreed to develop, as a planning project, a new web-based planning tool that allowed counties to review, revise, drop, and resubmit mental health planning priorities for 2008. Counties had the option of submitting as many as nine or as few as three priorities. They were able to separate priorities for Adult and Children's services as well as priorities that relate to Systems issues. Click below to download the report.
2008 Plan for New York Mental Health Services County and City Priorities
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2007 Plan for NY Mental Health Services
Summary
During the spring of 2006, the 57 County and New York City membership of the NYS Conference of Local Mental Hygiene Directors, Inc. (CLMHD) embarked on the culmination of a three-year Mental Health Services Planning Initiative. The Planning Initiative was supported by the CLMHD as a Technical Assistance Project for the membership of the organization. The background and a description of the steps involved in the process to revitalize county- and city-level mental health services planning are outlined [in the report]. This latest component of the three-year plan has involved counties, through their local planning processes, developing and submitting comprehensive local plans for mental health services to the NYS Office of Mental Health (SOMH). In addition to providing local guidance for the ongoing development and enhancement of county and city-level services for persons with mental illness, the plans will serve as the focal point of joint discussions and negotiations between counties and the SOMH regarding individual county planning priorities and initiatives.
Collectively, the county and city plans serve to better articulate overall mental health services planning priorities for the combined 57 counties and the City of New York. The primary function of the aggregated plans and priorities is to better inform the SOMH 5.07 planning and budgeting processes as well as to inform other state-level policy makers and funders about needs and priorities from the local perspective. Given that county- and city-level planning processes themselves are informed through significant input and participation of local consumers, families, providers and numerous other local stakeholders, these collective plans provide a view of mental health service needs and priorities closer to those who utilize and benefit from those services.
The remainder of this report focuses on the identified planning priorities and initiatives as articulated in the collective county and city 2007-2010 Plans for Mental Health Services. As part of the submission, counties and the City were asked to provide summary information on the top three planning priorities and initiatives for their local mental health services systems. In turn, the collective responses were categorized and tabulated to provide a statewide view of these data. A brief description of the Planning Template and Methodology utilized for categorizing and analyzing the data is also provided [in the report].
2007 Plan for NY Mental Health Services
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