Transforming Mental Health Services: Implementing the Federal Agenda for Change

Contents......Page 6
Introduction......Page 8
Transforming Mental Health Care at the Interface With General Medicine: Report for the President’s Commission......Page 10
Employment Barriers for Persons With Psychiatric Disabilities: Update of a Report for the President’s Commission......Page 22
Housing for People With Mental Illness: Update of a Report to the President’s New Freedom Commission......Page 38
Issues in Medicaid Policy and System Transformation: Recommendations From the President’s Commission......Page 46
Insights and Opportunities: Medicaid Directors Identify Mental Health Issues......Page 52
Transformation of Children’s Mental Health Services: The Role of School Mental Health......Page 56
The Top Ten Concerns About Recovery Encountered in Mental Health System Transformation......Page 66
Barriers to Recovery and Recommendations for Change: The Pennsylvania Consensus Conference on Psychiatry’s Role......Page 72
Transforming Mental Health and Substance Abuse Data Systems in the United States......Page 78
Delivery of Excellent Mental Health Care and Acceleration of Research: Federal Activities Since the President’s Commission Report......Page 86
Transformation of the California Mental Health System: Stakeholder-Driven Planning as a Transformational Activity......Page 92
“We Never Used to Do Things This Way”: Behavioral Health Care Reform in New Mexico......Page 100
Mental Health Transformation: Moving Toward a Public Health, Early-Intervention Approach in Texas......Page 104
Developing Statewide Consumer Networks......Page 108
Mending Missouri’s Safety Net: Transforming Systems of Care by Integrating Primary and Behavioral Health Care......Page 112
Mental Health Policy and Services Five Years After the President’s Commission Report: An Interview With Michael F. Hogan......Page 116
A Public Health Model of Mental Health for the 21st Century......Page 120