Tag Archives: Behavioral Health
Our Year in Review – 2021
Activities: As we come to the end of 2021, we want to summarize our activities for the past year and provide a preview of our work during 2022. National Activities: Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry (GAP) – Committee on … Continue reading
January-June 2020 Work
Activities: In the context of the COVID pandemic, there has been continuing (virtual, of course) activity on both old and new projects and a very busy summer! Interdepartmental Serious Mental Illness Coordinating Committee: Dr. Minkoff and the other non-federal members … Continue reading
March-May 2019
ZIA NEWS – March-May 2019 Activities: There has been continuing activity on both old and new projects as 2019 starts off with a lot going on! Interdepartmental Serious Mental Illness Coordinating Committee: Dr. Minkoff and the non-federal members of ISMICC … Continue reading
July-August 2018
Summer Activities: Even with vacations (2 weeks in Brazil in July, 2 weeks on Cape Cod in August) it has been a busy summer. Interdepartmental Serious Mental Illness Coordinating Committee: Dr. Minkoff worked with the non-federal members of ISMICC to … Continue reading
April 2018
Activities in April Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute: Continued work on finalizing the Houston Endowment substance use disorder System Report and helping to develop MAT TA capacity for Texas. Dr. Minkoff gathering information for the report on the new naltrexone … Continue reading
March 2018
Activities in March Interdepartmental Serious Mental Illness Coordinating Committee: Numerous telephone conferences to discuss how best to implement the ISMICC recommendations. This culminated in an interdepartmental meeting coordinated by SAMHSA on March 28, where over 50 representatives of multiple federal … Continue reading
February 2018
Interdepartmental Serious Mental Illness Coordinating Committee: Beginning efforts to organize the federal interdepartmental implementation process for the ISMICC Recommendations. Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute: Dr. Minkoff and Dr. Cline contributed to the policy recommendations submitted by MMHPI to the state … Continue reading
October 2017
Activities in October Interdepartmental Serious Mental Illness Coordinating Committee: (See previous descriptions and links for background). During October, the ISMICC group (of which Dr. Minkoff is a member) has kicked into high gear by organizing five major workgroups to provide … Continue reading
Nebraska: Advancing Progress in the Entire State System
We were very excited to spend the week of March 2 in Nebraska, providing consultation, training and technical assistance in each of the regions. Ken visited Region 1 in Scottsbluff, in the far western part of the state, Region 2 … Continue reading
Santa Barbara County: Integrated Structures and Approaches
On February 25-26, our system transformation consultation with Santa Barbara County resumed after a six-month hiatus, and we were delighted to be working with their new Behavioral Health Director, Alice Gleghorn, who comes to Santa Barbara from San Francisco. (We … Continue reading