Flo A. Stein, MPH
NC PIC Project Manager
Chief, Community Policy Management
Division of MH/DD/SAS

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    Upcoming Meetings / Events
    MH PIC Meeting
    March 17, 2010 [Wed]
    DD PIC Meeting
    March 26, 2010 [Fri]
    PIC Congress
    May 13, 2010 [Thu]

    EBP Quick Links
    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.
    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.
    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.
    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.
    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.
    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.
    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.
    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.
    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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    North Carolina Practice Improvement Collaborative Congress

    Call for Scientific Abstracts For Panel and Poster Presentations
    May 13, 2010
    Sheraton Imperial Hotel
    Research Triangle Park, North Carolina

    The North Carolina Practice Improvement Collaborative (NCPIC) is pleased to offer an opportunity for researchers who have been conducting research in the areas of mental health, developmental disabilities, or substance abuse to present their findings to other researchers, providers, policymakers, and consumers.

    Created to advance the provision of evidence-based services and supports for people with mental illness, developmental disabilities, and substance abuse service needs, the NCPIC meets quarterly to review practices/programs and host educational events. In addition, the NCPIC holds an annual Congress to make recommendations to the NC Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and Substance Abuse Services. At the 2010 Congress, the NCPIC will also highlight the innovations and research coming out of our state by featuring presentations from North Carolina’s research community.

    Researchers will present in one of four categories: Original Research, Program Descriptions, Literature Review, or New Investigators. All presentations will include an Aim, a Conclusion and a “Supported by” statement. Original Research must include Methods and Results sections. (These sections are optional for the other categories.) Each abstract should be submitted on the form included with this document.  The character limit is 2200 for the text of the abstract.

    Original Research
    In this category, we will highlight prospective and retrospective studies that involve testing a hypothesis by collecting and analyzing data. Each abstract submitted should be original research, whether it is basic science research or a clinical research study. The abstract should include the following: hypothesis, methods, data analyses procedures, results, and significance of findings.

    Program Descriptions
    Abstracts submitted as program descriptions should be based on research findings that are not research studies. No data are required; however, this category should not be used to describe ongoing original research for which there currently are no data. Rather, these abstracts should describe programs or themes that are not based upon hypothesis-driven research.

    Literature Review
    Individuals who have conducted a review of the current published literature on a specific topic are not required to include specific data. These abstracts will be required to include a concluding statement regarding the findings of the literature review.

    New Investigators – Poster Sessions Only
    The NCPIC is especially interested in encouraging the work of new investigators just beginning their careers in our state. It is the commitment of these future researchers that will foster continued improvements in services and supports for people with mental illness, developmental disabilities, and alcohol and substance abuse prevention and treatment needs. Many of our institutions of higher education are national leaders in these areas, and we want to support them in maintaining their positions. Therefore, the NCPIC members would like to acknowledge North Carolina’s new investigators, who are poised to become the next generation of research leaders.

    Abstracts for the New Investigators Poster session may highlight research projects that have only recently become funded (within 12 months) or are projects in their initial stages of data collection. The focus of this session is to inform others about new studies as well as highlight the researchers themselves.

    The Congress will feature both poster and paper sessions. (Young Investigators will be poster only presentations.) Once abstracts are peer-reviewed, selected abstracts will be organized into sessions. First authors will be contacted by email no later than April 1. Abstracts will be distributed at the meeting and featured on the NCPIC website.

    Instructions for the Submission of Abstracts:
    Presenters to the NCPIC Congress must be either sponsored by a member of the NCPIC or obtain a sponsor directly from the Governor’s Institute. Contact information for sponsors can be found under these headings Mental Health / Dr. Wei Li Fang, Developmental Disabilities / Dr. Jill Hinton and Substance Abuse / Dr. Sara McEwen.

    Abstracts should be submitted electronically on this form before March 12 to Mary Powell. The email subject line should be NCPIC CONGRESS ABSTRACT. A copy of your abstract should also be sent to your sponsor.