CMHACY – CMHACY – California Mental Health Advocates for Children and Youth

August

Children’s Mental Health Crisis Services, Part 2

August 27, 2016

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On May 10th, 2016 we posted our first blog on children’s mental health crisis services. In the blog we summarized the increased attention to the specific needs of children and families when they find themselves faced with a mental health crisis. The blog reported that...

June

CMHACY Clarifies Authorship and Publication of Recent CCR Article by Mr. Lee Collins

June 6, 2016

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As CMHACY moves forward to advocate for children and families, we have expanded our presence in the public arena via a series of blogs and greater use of social media. From time to time we will invite guest authors to share their opinions about important...

May

John Boyd: Leadership Thoughts to Share

May 31, 2016

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Our 36th annual conference included an increasing number of attendees associated with commercial insurance and hospital systems. One such attendee was John Boyd, System Executive Mental Health. CEO, Sutter Solano Medical Center & Sutter Center for Psychiatry. When discussing what he took away from the...

May

2016 CMHACY Conference Picture Contest Results

May 23, 2016

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Many of you who attended our conference posted photos on the conference App. By the end of the conference 279 photos were posted and entered into our first annual photo contest. The CMHACY new social media/web intern, Jeremiah McWright, was assigned the difficult task of...

May

2016 CMHACY Conference Highlights

May 18, 2016

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Since 1980 CMHACY has hosted an annual meeting at Asilomar Conference Grounds in Pacific Grove, California. Unique in the country and attended by as many as 600 stakeholders – parents, youth, providers, legal advocates, school representatives, County agency leaders, state department officials, and legislative staff...

May

Children’s Mental Health Crisis Services

May 10, 2016

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The topic of mental health crisis services specific to children and families has received increased attention throughout the state. In January 2015, a consortium of mental health advocacy organizations issued a white paper titled “Kids in Crisis: California’s Failure to Provide Appropriate Services for Youth Experiencing...

May

CMHACY Poster Sessions and Wine and Cheese Reception

May 9, 2016

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Wednesday Evening 8:15 Fred Farr and Kiln This year we have added “poster sessions” to our conference agenda. Poster sessions allow individuals and groups to present their research, policy and practice ideas in a more informal setting than could be done in a workshop session. The “poster”...

May

2016 Advocate of the Year

May 6, 2016

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Monica Nepomuceno Monica Nepomuceno works at the California Department of Education (CDE) as an Education Programs Consultant (EPC) with the Educational Options, Student Support and American Indian Education Office. Monica has been the EPC overseeing the Mental Health Services Program at CDE since 2009. Under this...

May

2016 Journalist of the Year

May 5, 2016

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Daniel Heimpel Daniel Heimpel is an award-winning journalist, the founder of a national non-profit organization, Fostering Media Connections, dedicated to improving the lives of children through solution-based journalism, and teaches graduate students of public policy, social work and journalism on how to use media to drive...

May

CMHACY Conference Exhibitors: National Accrediting Organizations

May 2, 2016

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The 2016 CMHACY conference will highlight topics of special interest to those impacted by the child welfare Continuum of Care Reform (AB403). In addition to a number of relevant pre-conference and workshop sessions, representatives from the California approved national accrediting organizations will exhibit their programs...

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Children’s Mental Health Crisis Services, Part 2

CMHACY Clarifies Authorship and Publication of Recent CCR Article by Mr. Lee Collins

John Boyd: Leadership Thoughts to Share

2016 CMHACY Conference Picture Contest Results

2016 CMHACY Conference Highlights

Children’s Mental Health Crisis Services

CMHACY Poster Sessions and Wine and Cheese Reception

2016 Advocate of the Year

2016 Journalist of the Year

CMHACY Conference Exhibitors: National Accrediting Organizations

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