Mental Health and Addiction Transformation Work Group

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Mental Health and Addiction Transformation Work
Group

• December 2, 2008

Commission on Mental Health
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Commission Meetings

• Four commission meetings were held between August
  18 and October 21, 2008
• Presentation Topics included
• Transformation
• Delivery and Financing
• Supportive Housing
• Integration
• Forensic
• Sequential Intercept Model
• Department of Correction Services
• Mental Health Courts
• County Jail Services
• Shortage of Psychiatrists
• Licensure of Addiction Counselors
• Mental Health Issues Concerning Children
• Update from Indiana Council of Community Mental
  Health Centers
• Family Perspective on Mental Health Care in
  Indiana
• Medicaid Quality Advisory Committee

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Legislative Proposals

• PD 3288 Licensure of Addiction Counselors
• PD 3306 Omnibus Bill
• DOC Drug Formulary
• Forensic Technical Assistance Center
• Medicaid Quality Advisory Committee
• Closing juvenile proceedings for testimony of
  health care providers
• Task Force on Workforce Development
• Bonding Authority for mental health facility
• PD 3314 Public Sector Psychiatry program
• PD 3312 Incentive program to attract
  psychiatrists, psychologists, and psychiatric
  nurses to Indiana

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Legislative Proposals

• PD 3269 Childrens Health Insurance Program
  parity
• PD 3416 Problem Solving Courts
• Concurrent Resolution 20091337.001 Full funding
  for community mental health centers
• Concurrent Resolution 20091332.001 Topics for
  the Commission on Mental Health for the 2009
  interim