Posts Tagged ‘CMHACY’
Youth Mental Health Crisis Entering the National Conversation
The Oversight and Accountability Commission supports Ken Burns’ New Documentary Hiding in Plain Sight: Youth Mental Illness The Commission works through partnerships to catalyze transformational changes across service systems so that everyone who needs mental health care has access to and receives effective and culturally competent care.-Commission Mission Statement In January of 2019, Tom Chiodo, Executive…
Read MoreProposed 2022 – 2023 Budget A Historic Financial Commitment to Children, Youth, and Families By Governor Newsom
Proposed 2022 – 2023 Budget A Historic Commitment to Children, Youth, and Families By Governor Newsom The Commission works through partnerships to catalyze transformational changes across service systems so that everyone who needs mental health care has access to and receives effective and culturally competent care. -Commission Mission Statement Governor Newsom announced his proposed $286.4…
Read MoreChildren’s Mental Health Crisis Services, Part 2
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 children’s mental health crises were often more complicated to resolve…
Read MoreCMHACY Clarifies Authorship and Publication of Recent CCR Article by Mr. Lee Collins
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 and controversial subjects that the CMHACY Board of Directors finds…
Read MoreJohn Boyd: Leadership Thoughts to Share
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 conference, Dr. Boyd stated, “I believe we need to slow…
Read More2016 CMHACY Conference Picture Contest Results
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 choosing the winners of the photo contest. Here are the…
Read More2016 CMHACY Conference Highlights
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 – the conference has provided a forum for policy development,…
Read MoreChildren’s Mental Health Crisis Services
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 a Mental Health Crisis.” This paper served to spotlight…
Read MoreCMHACY Poster Sessions and Wine and Cheese Reception
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” is a display of the ideas. Those involved…
Read More2016 Advocate of the Year
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 program she manages a statewide project that includes the…
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