Upcoming Meetings / Events
    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
    Evidence-based Practices in Child Mental Health
    barbara_burns_slides Evidence-based Practices in Child Mental Health Can Make a Difference by Barbara J. Burns, PhD. was presented at the NC PIC meeting on Children: Evidence-based Services & Supports on November 12, 2009.

      Evidence-based Practices in Child Mental Health (3.3 MiB)

    As a follow up to her morning presentation, Dr. Burns met with the members of the Mental Health NCPIC Subcommittee.

      MH PIC Minutes 11-12-09 (15.5 KiB)
    Posted in MH Presentations
    August 20th, 2009
    SA/MH PIC Meeting Minutes – 8-13-2009

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

      SA/MH PIC Minutes - 08-13-2009 (26.6 KiB)
    Posted in MH Presentations, SA Presentations
    August 18th, 2009
    TRAUMA: An Evidence Based Perspective

    Trauma:  An Evidence Based Perspective was held on August 13th.  Over 70 NCPIC members and guests attended this meeting.  Here are presentations from Flo Stein and special guest speaker Kana Enomoto, M.A., Acting Deputy Administrator, Acting Associate Administrator for Women’s Services that were presented at the event.

      Trauma-Informed Care A Call to Action - Part 1 (400.2 KiB)

      Trauma-Informed Care A Call to Action - Part 2 (195.4 KiB)

      Trauma - An Evidence Based Perspective (142.2 KiB)

      The Relationship Between Stress and Substance Use Disorders (574.3 KiB)
    Posted in MH Presentations, PIC Events, SA Presentations
    June 1st, 2009
    Critical Time Intervention (CTI)

    The NC PIC Mental Health Subcommittee met on May 29, 2009 and heard a presentation on Critical Time Intervention (CTI) by Daniel Herman, DSW, MS of Columbia University.

    CTI is designed to prevent recurrent homelessness and other adverse outcomes among persons with severe mental illness. It aims to enhance continuity of care during the transition from institutional to community living.

      MH PIC May 2009 (31.2 KiB)

      Critical Time Intervention (CTI) (471.3 KiB)
    Posted in MH Presentations
    October 20th, 2008
    Understanding Consumer-Run Services

    Understanding Consumer-Run Services

    Mark Holter, MD, University of Kansas

    Beth Melcher, PhD, The Durham Center

    Debi Dihoff, National Alliance for Mental Illness – NC
    Posted in MH Presentations
    February 19th, 2008
    Changing Practice, Changing System

    Changing Practice, Changing System, Neal Adams, MD, MPH, California Institute on Mental Health
    Posted in MH Presentations
    December 3rd, 2007
    Teaching Family Model & Psychiatric Advanced Directives

    Teaching Family Model, Gary Timbers, Ph.D., Appalachian Family Innovations

    Psychiatric Advanced Directives, Eric Elbogen, Ph.D.
    Posted in MH Presentations
    October 20th, 2007
    Implementation Updates

    Integrated Dual Disorders in Wake County – W. Carlyle Johnson and Ann Oshel

    Child Trauma Project in Eastern North Carolina – Lisa M. Amaya Jackson, MD, Duke University
    Posted in MH Presentations
    May 14th, 2007
    Tools for Transformation

    Tools for Transformation: New Opportunities for LME-Provider Partnerships to Improve their Consumer’s Lives
    Beth Melcher, Ph.D.
    The Durham Center
    Posted in MH Presentations
    February 23rd, 2007
    Responding to the Needs of Justice-Involved Persons

    Fred Osher, MD, Director, Ctr. for Behavioral Health, Justice & Public Policy, Baltimore, MD
    Posted in MH Presentations
    February 23rd, 2007
    Mental Health and Primary Care Integration

    David Pollack, M.D. Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, OR and Richard Christensen, M.D., University of Florida College of Medicine, Jacksonville, FLResponding to the Needs of Justice-Involved Persons with Mental Illnesses, Fred Osher, MD, Director, Ctr. for Behavioral Health, Justice & Public Policy, Baltimore, MD
    Posted in MH Presentations
    November 1st, 2006
    Update on Child Trauma Models

      Update on Child Trauma Models (81.9 KiB)

    Robert Murphy, Ph.D., Center for Child and Family Health, Duke University
    Posted in MH Presentations
    November 1st, 2006
    Child Mental Health Evidence-Based Practices

      Child Mental Health EBP (84.1 KiB)

    Child Mental Health Evidence-Based Practices and the Next Generation of Implementation Resource Kits, Jeanne C. Rivard, Ph.D., National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors, National Research Institute (NRI)Update on Child Trauma Models, Robert Murphy, Ph.D., Center for Child and Family Health, Duke University
    Posted in MH Presentations
    August 23rd, 2006
    Supported Employment

      Supported Employment (189.2 KiB)

    Gary R. Bonds, M.D., Ph.D., Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis, IN
    Posted in MH Presentations
    March 23rd, 2006
    Family Psychoeducation Implementation Resource Kit

      Family Psychoeducation (72.5 KiB)

    Family Psychoeducation/Family to Family Education Program/Family Member Provider Outreach, Lisa Dixon, MD, MPH, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, VA Capitol Health Care Network, MIRECC

      Family Psychoeducation Implementation Resource Kit (52.5 KiB)
    Posted in MH Presentations
    January 27th, 2006
    Illness Management and Recovery – Kim T. Mueser

      Illness Management and Recovery (61.6 KiB)

    Integrated Treatment for Dual Disorders and Illness Management and Recovery, Kim T. Mueser, Ph.D., Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Community and Family Medicine, NH-Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center, Dartmouth Medical School

      Illness Management and Recovery Implementation Resource Kit (51.1 KiB)
    Posted in MH Presentations
    January 27th, 2006
    Integrated Dual Disorders Treatment

      Integrated Dual Disorders (153.1 KiB)

    Integrated Treatment for Dual Disorders and Illness Management and Recovery, Kim T. Mueser, Ph.D., Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Community and Family Medicine, NH-Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center, Dartmouth Medical School

      Integrated Dual Disorders Treatment Implementation Resource Kit (52.3 KiB)
    Posted in MH Presentations
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