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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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November 16th, 2009
Current Research on Early Intervention
linda_jwatson_slides Current Research on Early Intervention and how this Research can be Integrated into Community Settings. (Birth – Early School Years) was presented by Linda Watson, Ed.D. at the NC PIC meeting on Children: Evidence-based Services & Supports on November 12, 2009.

  Current Research on Early Intervention (146.1 KiB)
Posted in DD Presentations
November 16th, 2009
Grief in Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities

Dr. Ruth Hurst, from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington presented to the IDD PIC Subcommittee.

  IDD PIC Minutes 11-12-09 (17.7 KiB)

  Grieving and Loss in Individuals with IDD (3.0 MiB)

For more information about the article she references in the presentation, please email mary.powell@governorsinstitute.org
Posted in DD Presentations
August 20th, 2009
DD PIC Meeting Minutes – 8-13-2009

These are the minutes from the sub-committee meeting held after the PIC meeting on 8-13-2009.

  IDD PIC Minutes - 08-13-2009 (13.7 KiB)
Posted in DD Presentations
July 21st, 2009
DD PIC Makes Recommendations on Resource Allocation

This document is based on information gathered by members of the DD-PIC including two presentations on allocating resources in state DD systems. Nancy Thaler, Executive Director of National Association of State Developmental Disabilities Directors (NASDDDS) and Dr. Marc Tasse, AssociateProfessor/Director of Florida Center for Inclusive Communities – UCEDD at the University of South Florida each provided extensive information on the topic. The DD-PIC supports the concept of resource allocation and recommends that the state consider this information as it makes decisions about implementation of a resource allocation model in NC for people with ID/DD.

  Resource Allocation (44.0 KiB)
Posted in DD News & Updates, DD Presentations
May 8th, 2009
Resource Allocation

Dr. Marc Tasse presented to the DD PIC on May 8th, 2009. His presentation featured information about Resource Allocation. He also presented the national research on the Supports Intensity Scale.

  Resource Allocation & SIS - NCPIC Presentation 5-8-09 TASSE (994.0 KiB)

  DD PIC Minutes - 5-28-2009 (73.0 KiB)
Posted in DD Presentations
January 23rd, 2009
Constructing the New Service Paradigm

Constructing the New Service Paradigm, Nancy Thaler, Executive Director of the National Association of State Directors of Developmental Disabilities Services
Posted in DD Presentations
August 23rd, 2008
Transitioning From School To Community Services

Transitioning From School To Community Services, Barbara Mazzella, Governor’s Commission on Mental Retardation
Posted in DD Presentations
July 15th, 2008
START Model (Four Days of Training)

START Model (Systematic, Therapeutic, Assessment, Respite and Treatment), Joan B. Beasley, Ph.D., Consultant and Training, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
Posted in DD Presentations
October 20th, 2007
Implementation Updates: Creating Person-Centered System

Creating Person-Centered Systems:  Good 2 Great, Christina Carter, Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and Substance Abuse Services
Posted in DD Presentations
May 14th, 2007
Policies that Enhance the Adoption of New Supports

Policies that Enhance the Adoption of New Supports and Services that Enhance Quality for the Developmentally Disabled, Nancy Thaler, Executive Director of the National Association of State Directors of Developmental Disabilities Services
Posted in DD Presentations
March 19th, 2007
Health Services for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities

Karen Lukan and Duncan Munn, Chapel Hill, NC
Posted in DD Presentations
March 19th, 2007
Medications and Developmental Disabilities

Jarrett Barnhill, M.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
Posted in DD Presentations
December 13th, 2006
START Model

Joan B. Beasley, Ph.D., Consultant and Training, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts

  START Model (43.0 KiB)
Posted in DD Presentations
August 18th, 2006
DD and Complex Behaviorial Support Needs

Marc J. Tasse, Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

  Improving Services to Individuals With Complex Behavioral Needs (109.3 KiB)
Posted in DD Presentations
April 21st, 2006
Community-Based Crisis Services for DD

Don Kincaid, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL

  Crisis System Principles (31.1 KiB)
Posted in DD Presentations
January 23rd, 2006
The CMS Quality Framework

Shealey Thompson, Ph.D., NC Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse Services, Raleigh, NC
Posted in DD Presentations
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