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Self-Direction in Mental Health Broadcast Series

This series of three training webcasts, each ninety minutes in length, produced by the Substance and Mental Health Services Administration introduce the viewer to principles, models and tools of self-directed care within mental health. The following topics are presented.

1. Self-Direction and Its Relationship to Mental Health. Principles and Tools of Self-Direction. What we have learned and the data that supports self-direction in mental health.
Presenters: Tom Nerney, Judi Chamberlin, Jean Tuller

2. Models of Self-Direction in Mental Health, what's out there? How it works in real life and how to make it happen.
Presenters: Carolyn Russell, Jacki McKinney, Patricia Deegan

3. Self-Direction in Mental Health-From Ideas to Action: Funding Self-Directed Care in Mental Health and Helping People Make It Happen. Implementation at the local level.
Presenters: Marguerite Schervish, Jackie Golden, Michael Hlebechuk

http://www.connectlive.com/events/samhsa/archived.html

Self-Direction in Mental Health Training Slides

On November 6, 2008 the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services presented a national AudioNet training on Self-Direction Mental Health. The training provided a summary of self-direction requirements in Medicaid, perspectives from a Florida State Mental Health Commissioner and mental health consumer on self-directed care, and an overview of Home and Community Based Services ----Section 1915(c) Waiver Programs and Section 1915(i) State Plan Options and Section 1915(j)---the Self-Directed Personal Assistance State Plan Option. This website provides the slides used during the training.

Self-Direction in Mental Health Training Slides (PPT, 166 KB)


Featured Publications - Self-Directed Care

Please Note: All Publications are Free.

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In stock & On-line SMA05-3982 Booklet
  • Free To Choose - Transforming Behavioral Health Care to Self-Direction(SMA05-3982)
    • In 2004 SAMHSA hosted a Consumer Direction Initiative Summit that presented papers and recommendations for SAMHSA’s next steps towards fostering a more consumer-directed approach in behavioral health care services for people with substance use disorders and mental illnesses and children with serious emotional disturbances. This document summarizes the many issues raised in the working papers prepared for the Summit and during the meeting. Free to Choose provides useful information in support of the President’s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health Final Report recommendation for a more consumer and family driven mental health care system.
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    Status Inv. Code Format Title
    On-line Only NMH05-0191 Article
  • The Consumer-Directed Health Care: Challenges and Opportunities for Families with Youth with Serious Emotional Disturbance(NMH05-0191)
    • The Consumer-Directed Health Care:Challenges and Opportunities for Families with Youth with Serious Emotional Disturbance
    Status Inv. Code Format Title
    On-line Only NMH05-0192 Article
  • Promoting Self Determination for Individuals with Psychiatric Disabilities Through Self-Directed Services: A Look a Federal, State and Public Systems as Sources of Cash-Outs and Other Fiscal Expansion Opportunities(NMH05-0192)
    • A Look at Federal, State, and Public Systems as Sources of Cash-Outs and Other Fiscal Expansion Opportunities
    Status Inv. Code Format Title
    On-line Only NMH05-0193 Article
  • Consumer-Directed Transformation to a Recovery-Based Mental Health System(NMH05-0193)
    • Consumer-Directed Transformation to a Recovery-Based Mental Health System
    Status Inv. Code Format Title
    On-line Only NMH05-0194 Article
  • Quality Issues in Consumer/Family Direction(NMH05-0194)
    • Quality Issues in Consumer/Family Direction
    Status Inv. Code Format Title
    On-line Only NMH05-0195 Article
  • Competence Issues in Self-Directed Care(NMH05-0195)
    • Competence Issues in Self-Directed Care

    Review of Recovery Literature: A Synthesis of a Sample of Recovery Literature (pdf)


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