Assignment: Policy Impact And Implications Paper
Youtube Video: "Keynote: Elinore F McCance Katz MD PhD - Saks Institute Spring 2018 Symposium"
During the 2018 Saks Institute of Mental Health Law, Policy, and Ethics, Dr. Elinore F. McCance-Katz, MD, PhD, Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Use, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration-SAMHSA, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, shared the following presentation, Changing Focus: The Right to Treatment of Serious Mental Illness. In this presentation, 5 focus recommendations were provided, Interdepartmental Serious Mental Illness Coordinating Committee.
Focus 1: Strengthen Federal Coordination to Improve Care
• Improve interdepartmental coordination; evaluate the federal approach to serving those with SMI/SED; use data to improve quality of care/outcomes
Focus 2: Access and Engagement: Make It Easier to Get Good Care
• Early identification and intervention for youth
• Crisis intervention services development
• Continuum of care with outpatient services as alternatives to inpatient care/psychiatric bed capacity
• Reassessment of civil commitment standards and processes
• Use of new technologies to increase access e.g., telehealth
Focus 3: Treatment and Recovery - Close the Gap Between What Works and What Is Offered
• Coordinated specialty care for first episode psychosis: FEP/CHR
• Advance suicide prevention strategies: Zero Suicide
• Make housing more available for people living with SMI/SED
• Focus on development of integrated services for mental and substance use disorders; physical healthcare: CCBHCs/integrated care at FQHCs
Focus 4: Increase Opportunities for Diversion and Improve Care for People With SMI and SED Involved in the Criminal and Juvenile Justice Systems
• Train first responders on how to work with people with SMI/SED
• Sustain therapeutic dockets in federal, state, and local courts
• Universal screening for mental disorders, substance use disorders, and behavioral health needs for each person incarcerated
• Reduce barriers that impede immediate access to treatment and recovery services on release
Focus 5: Develop Finance Strategies to Increase Availability and Affordability of Care
• Eliminate financing practices that discriminate against behavioral healthcare
• Enforce existing parity laws
• Pay for psychiatric and other behavioral health services at rates comparable to those for physical health problems
1) Identify an area of interest/challenge within the area of addiction treatment. Examples of this can be drug court or safe injection sites. Choosing an area of interest/challenge is not required, but will be helpful in narrowing your research.
2) Look at the above SAMHSA 5 recommendations (above) to improve care for persons who live with serious mental illness (which includes addiction). Remember, this course focuses on a population of people who live with addiction and this topic is the focus of this assignment. There is no writing required for this section; you will just be considering.
3) Choose 1 Focus and answer the following questions, consider the bullet points that are naturally relevant to your interest within the Focus. PLEASE USE ALL HEADINGS AS LISTED BELOW.
§ Provide a brief history and current context of your area of interest, using professional/academic literature and/or official websites. (The PowerPoint stack, Changing Focus: The Right to Treatment of Serious Mental Illness, can be used, as well as the references listed on the last slide.)
§ Explain how you suggest to successfully implement each value/bullet point under the Focus Area. List each bullet point as a separate heading.
§ What barriers are you aware of that would impede your implementation and how would you suggest managing this barrier?
§ Briefly share your final thoughts about what you have learned in this research.
Here is the correct format of your paper.
• Provide a brief history and current context of your area of interest, using professional/academic literature and/or official websites. (The PowerPoint stack, Changing Focus: The Right to Treatment of Serious Mental Illness, can be used, as well as the references listed on the last slide.)
• Explain how you suggest to successfully implement each value/bullet point under the Focus Area. List each bullet point as a separate heading.
o Focus number
- list heading
- How will you suggest to successfully implement this value/bulletpoint?
- list heading
- How will you suggest to successfully implement this value/bulletpoint?
- list heading
- How will you suggest to successfully implement this value/bulletpoint?
• What barriers are you aware of that would impede your implementation and how would you suggest managing this barrier?
o list heading
- What are the barriers of this value/bulletpoint?
o list heading
- What are the barriers of this value/bulletpoint?
o list heading
- What are the barriers of this value/bulletpoint?
• Briefly share your final thoughts about what you have learned in this research.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.