[Stateclcnetwork] Fwd: April 17, 2020 NASMHPD Weekly Update

[Kathy Parker]

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>>> Stuart Gordon 4/16/2020 3:02 PM >>>
Attached is this week's NASMHPD Weekly Update, containing:

(1)  two pages of information on SAMHSA's Disaster Distress Helpline;

(2)  additions to the compendium of Federal agency links, from the
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of
National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) (marked "NEW") addressing the
COVID-19 Crisis;

(3)  additions of links to § 1135 Medicaid waivers for Utah, Puerto
Rico, and the Northern Mariana Islands to our compilation of § 1135
waivers, and our compendium of Medicaid § 1915(c) Appendix K waivers ;

(4) a new compilation of State Medicaid waivers addressing the COVID-19
crisis;

(5) Peer-Led Recommendations for Supporting Individuals Receiving Care
in State Psychiatric Facilities during the COVID-19 Crisis developed by
NASMHPD's Division of Recovery Support Services and SAMHSA's Consumer
Networks;

(6) details on a new SAMHSA-sponsored webinar on Improving Access to
Care: Mental Health Course for Parents and Caregivers Available through
Technology, a new SAMHSA GAINS Center 3-part virtual learning community
on Essential Measures for Data & Information Sharing Across the
Sequential Intercept Model which starts May 5, and a SAMHSA-sponsored
April 21 Mental Health Technology Transfer Center Network  "Meet Up" on
Assertive Community Treatment;

(7)  information on a new Veterans Affairs Safe Firearms Storage
Toolkit intended to reduce veteran firearm suicides;

(8) a new Crisis Now CrisisTalk blog describing what Disaster Expert
Jeannette David says the past might inform us on what is to come in
behavioral health; and

(9) three boxes of NASMHPD Links of Interest, relating mostly--but not
entirely--to how mental health interrelates with the COVID-19 virus, the
anxiety it invokes, and the mandated social distancing imposed by
authorities.


We hope you will find this information to be useful. 

If there is any COVID-related information that you would like to see in
the Weekly Update that you are not currently finding either in the
Weekly Update or on the NASMHPD COVID-19 Landing Page
( https://www.nasmhpd.org/content/covid-19-resource-links)  please let
us know and we will work to include it.

And please, everybody, stay safe and well.  This too shall pass and you
will be needed in the aftermath.




Stuart Yael Gordon
Senior Director of Policy & Communications
National Association of State Mental
   Health Program Directors
66 Canal Center Plaza
Suite 302
Alexandria, VA 22314
703-682-7552
cell: 443-808-5203 or 716-994-4029



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