[Stateclcnetwork] Fwd: May 22, 2020 NASMHPD Weekly Update

[Kathy Parker]

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>>> Stuart Gordon 5/21/2020 2:56 PM >>>
Attached is this week's NASMHPD Weekly Update.  It contains:

(1) news of President Trump's executive order directing Federal agencies to review the waivers and flexibilities they've utilized to address the COVID-19 pandemic, with an eye to making them permanent to facilitate economic recovery, and an effort by NASMHPD and the D.C.-based Mental Health Liaison Group coalition of 70+ mental health advocacy organizations to urge CMS to create an interim period after the emergency period ends to collect and weigh outcomes and data from COVID-19-related  telehealth flexibilities, in order to provide support for making those telehealth flexibilities permanent;

(2) a compilation of links to state guidance documents on relaxing COVID-19-related restrictions, prepared by the Department of Health and Human Services' Partnership Center;

(3) a summary of a Lancet article championing an interdisciplinary approach to reducing any increased suicide risk associated with the effects of the pandemic;

(4) a Crisis Now CrisisTalks blog on creating a support system for the most marginalized populations in the wake of the pandemic; and

(5) a reminder that the deadline is tomorrow, May 22, for submitting applications for SAMHSA's emergency grants for suicide prevention in the COVID-19 environment.

Have a good holiday weekend.  The NASMHPD Weekly Update will be taking next week off, but will return June 5.

Stay Well,

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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