| May 10th, 2012 |
| May 10, 2012: State Associations for Addictions Services (SAAS) |
This week’s update begins with a link to the State Associations for Addictions Services (SAAS) home page. It is followed by a link to an informative manuscript intended to be used as a roadmap by treatment agencies. The update closes with a link to the National Quality Forum. The impetus for this update was a presentation by the CEO of SAAS emphasizing the importance of addiction professionals’ readiness to adapt in a rapidly changing behavioral healthcare environment. In order for evidence-based practices to be identified, selected, and adopted by agencies, it is critical that substance abuse treatment agencies are prepared to operate in today’s behavioral healthcare landscape. Founded in 1987, SAAS is a nonprofit organization that was established “to ensure the availability and accessibility of quality alcohol and drug treatment, prevention, education and related services throughout the country”. Members include state association leaders from across the nation as well as addiction treatment and prevention providers. Becky Vaughn, the CEO of SAAS, recently spoke to a North Carolina audience of clinicians, agency directors, LME staff, and state staff about implementing strong, sound addiction treatment programs in today’s new healthcare environment. Ms. Vaughn’s presentation is best described as a clinic on preparing substance abuse providers to operate in a modern behavioral healthcare environment. You may obtain a copy of Implementing Healthcare Reform: First Steps to Transforming your Organization, the manuscript on which her presentation was based, click here. During the aforementioned presentation, Ms. Vaughn noted that SAAS’s position on the promotion and adoption of SUD EBPs will be based on the recommendations put forth by the National Quality Forum (NQF). The NQF’s mission is stated as follows: “The National Quality Forum (NQF) is dedicated to improving the quality of health care in the United States. To that end, the NQF embodies a three-part mission — to set goals for performance improvement, to endorse standards for measuring and reporting on performance, and to promote educational and outreach programs. NQF members include purchasers, physicians, nurses, hospitals, certification bodies and fellow quality improvement organizations”. Click here to visit the NQF homepage. |
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Flo A. Stein, MPH NC PIC Project Manager Chief, Community Policy Management Division of MH/DD/SAS
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MH#1: Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) Mental Health Bulletin #1 - Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) was developed to treat post-traumatic stress and related emotional and behavioral problems in children and adolescents. |
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MH#2: Integrated Dual Disorders Treatment (IDDT) Mental Health Bulletin #2 - Integrated Dual Disorders Treatment (IDDT) requires that mental health and substance abuse treatment be delivered concurrently by a team of cross-trained clinicians within the same program. |
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MH#3: Wellness Management and Recovery (WMR) Mental Health Bulletin #3 - The National Institute of Mental Health estimates that approximately 6% of the U.S. population has severe mental illness (SMI). For North Carolina, that percentage translates to approximately 200,000 people who suffer from severe psychiatric disorders. |
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MH#4: Family Psychoeducation Mental Health Bulletin #4 - Persons with severe mental illness (SMI) often rely on family members for the majority of their needed support, and it is estimated that 35-60% of adults with SMI live with family members. |
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SA#1: Contingency Management (CM) Substance Abuse Bulletin #1 - Contingency management (CM) is a motivational incentive intervention in which clients with substance use disorders receive small rewards for attending treatment, taking prescribed medication, providing negative urine samples, or complying with other defined treatment-related goals. |
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SA#2: Strengthening Families Program (SFP) Substance Abuse Bulletin #2 - The Strengthening Families Program (SFP) is a parenting and family strengthening program for high risk families. It combines science-based (1) parenting-skill training, (2) child life-skill building, and (3) family lifeskill education into a program that improves the child's social/life skills and family functioning and protects the children from the long-term risks of drug abuse. |
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SA#3: Seeking Safety Substance Abuse Bulletin #3 - Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety disorder that may result from exposure and sometimes multiple exposures to highly traumatic events such as child abuse, accidents, violent personal assaults, military combat, or natural or human caused disasters. |
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SA#4: Matrix Intensive Outpatient Treatment Substance Abuse Bulletin #4 - Matrix was developed in the 1980s by researchers at the University of Southern California and clinicians at the Matrix Institute on Addictions who found that clients addicted to stimulants were challenging the existing treatment system. |
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SA#5: The Seven Challenges Substance Abuse Bulletin #5 - The Seven Challenges program was developed in the early 1990s by Dr. Robert Schwebel who recognized the lack of age appropriate substance abuse treatment models for adolescents. |
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Developing Effective, High-Quality Community Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services: A Guide for Local Management Entities by Beth Melcher, Ph.D. This manual seeks to clarify and provide guidance to LMEs on how to successfully engage in the service development role. It promotes the implementation of evidence-based and best practice services and supports. |
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National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices NREPP is a searchable database of interventions for the prevention and treatment of mental and substance use disorders. SAMHSA has developed this resource to help people, agencies, and organizations implement programs and practices in their communities. |
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