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

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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.
    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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    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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