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Ambulatory Patient Groups
Ambulatory Patient Groups: Introduction to Clinical Services, Billing and Budgeting Webinar PowerPoint presented by the NYS Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services.
Ambulatory Patient Groups
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Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Trainings
Committed to “Ending the Knowledge Gap”, the Learning Disabilities Association of New York State (LDANYS) proudly invites you to experience the professional development opportunity to reduce the incidence of FASD in New York State. This educational initiative is made possible by a grant from the NY State Developmental Disabilities Planning Council and is open to ALL educational, medical and behavioral health service professionals; continuing education credits are available.
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Instructor Training for Law Enforcement and Mental Health Personnel
The NYS Office of Criminal Justice Services and the NYS Office of Mental Health are working together to provide instructor trainings on the best ways for law enforcement personnel to respond to people exhibiting symptoms of mental illness. OMH and DCJS recommend that law enforcement instructors who are trained through these programs co-train with a mental health credentialed person-either from the county or a provider agency-to facilitate a team teaching approach.
Three training will be offered in the coming months. Responding to Situations Involving Emotionally Disturbed People: An In-Service Curriculum Orientation, is an in-service training program designed to supplement the Police Mental Health Recruit Training curriculum mandated for recruits. It provides experienced police officers with a more advanced content regarding acute symptoms of mental illness; a review of the NYS Mental Hygiene Law; and an opportunity for participants to hear from recipients of mental health services. This instructor training will be offered May 5-6, 2010 in Oneida County, June 9-10, 2010 in Erie County, and November 17-18, 2010 in Westchester County.
Suicide Prevention and Crisis Intervention in County Jails and Police Lockups is a training program that was developed as a model to address the problem of jail suicide. The course provides instructor training in the following areas: understanding suicide; myths and misconceptions; substance abuse and suicide; suicide prevention screening guidelines; mental illness and suicide; communication skills; and suicide prevention after cell assignment. This training will be offered April 20-22, 2010 in Westchester County and October 5-7, 2010 in Erie County. Mental Health advocates and local mental health staff wishing to become instructors must meet the following requirements: Bachelors degree (BA, BS, BSN) or RN in a mental health field or specialty with 5 or more years of service delivery experience in a federal, state, or local mental health program; Master’s degree in a mental health related field or specialty (MSW, MS, MSN, MSA), or Doctorate in mental health related field (MD, Ph.D, DSW, DSN).
Police Mental Health Instructor Training is the instructor development as mandated by the Municipal Police Training Council for teaching the mental illness component of training for recruits in the Basic Course for Police Officers. This course includes extensive role-playing of many typical situations encountered by police that respond to calls for service with an emotionally disturbed person. All registrants should be prepared to practice role-playing in this program and to conduct role-plays in local recruit training. This training will be held September 14-16, 2010 in Syracuse. The Mental Health Instructor course is designed to be co-presented by a law enforcement instructor and a county or local mental health instructor in a team approach.
Responding to Emotionally Disturbed People
Police Mental Health Instructor
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Project TEACH
To support the critical role that pediatricians and primary care physicians play in the early identification and access to treatment for emotional disturbances in children, the New York State Office of Mental Health (OMH) is funding a collaborative effort of State and County governments with medical providers designed to link pediatricians and primary care physicians with child mental health experts across New York State.
Project TEACH (Training and Education for the Advancement of Children's Health) will provide specialized training, consultation and linkage with mental health treatment for primary care physicians statewide. It is a collaboration of OMH with the Department of Health (DOH), Conference of Local Mental Hygiene Directors, American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the New York State Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP).
Under Project TEACH, consultative support -primarily related to diagnostic and psychopharmacologic concerns -will occur mainly by telephone, but in some cases through telemedicine and in-person. When more than an initial intervention is needed, referral and linkage will assist families and primary care providers to access community mental health and support services such as clinic treatment, case management or family support. Educational-based trainings for physicians who provide primary care to children will also be held regularly on a variety of topics related to children's social and emotional development.
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OASAS Report on NYS DOCS Addiction Services
The NYS Office of Alcoholism & Substance Abuse Services released a report titled OASAS Report on NYS DOCS Addiction Services. On April 7, 2009 Governor David A. Paterson signed into law the Rockefeller Drug Laws reforms. These reforms eliminated certain mandatory prison sentences by giving judges discretion to divert non-violent individuals with substance abuse histories to a variety of alternative sentences including Judicial Diversion programs modeled after Drug Courts. These reforms will greatly increase the access to treatment for many offenders. While diversion alternatives will be available for many, there will still be a significant number of individuals with substance abuse issues who will continue to be committed to prison.
This first annual report will provide background information on the NYS Office of Alcoholism & Substance Abuse Services (OASAS) and the Department of Correctional Services (DOCS), a description of current collaborative efforts, a review of DOCS programming, and a plan for future efforts. Click below to view the report.
OASAS Report on NYS DOCS Addiction Services
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CQCAPD Hospital Discharge Survey
The Commission of Quality of Care and Advocacy for Persons with Disabilities invited hospitals providing psychiatric inpatient care to participate in a survey. The survey was prompted by concerns expressed to the Commission by parents, providers and its own investigators about difficulties sometimes encountered in obtaining timely and appropriate discharge for people who are hospitalized in psychiatric units-particularly people who have a mental illness and a developmental disability.
Hospital Discharge Survey
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Task Force on Co-Occurring Disorders Final Report March 2009
The Subcommittee on Youth and Adolescents was charged with making recommendations to improve the care of youth, adolescents and young adults in NYS who have a co-occurring disorder, with a primary focus on youth ages 10-24* involved in OMH State Operated Programs and in OASAS and OMH State Certified Programs. The subcommittee’s work builds on the principles of “The Children’s Plan: Improving the Social and Emotional Well Being of New York’s Children and Their Families” (October 2008), by providing recommendations for clinical and systems integration, and regulatory and fiscal changes. Fundamental to the work of the Subcommittee was the importance of shared decision making for youth and their families. Below is the task force's final report.
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Uncompensated Care (Indigent Care) Pool
The uncompensated care pool (indigent care pool) will reimburse Article 31 clinics an indeterminate percentage of the Medicaid cost related to providing uncompensated care visits.
OMH Uncompensated Care Pool Letter
Overview of Indigent Care Funding and Instructions for Data Collection
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