Mental Health System Transformation: Progress for Children and Their Families

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Mental Health SystemTransformation Progress
for Childrenand Their Families
July 13, 2006 Kissimmee, FL

• A. Kathryn Power, M.Ed.
• Director, Center for Mental Health Services

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Goals of Mental Health Transformation

• Americans understand that mental health is
  essential to overall health.
• Mental health care is consumer and family driven.
• Disparities in mental health services are
  eliminated.
• Early mental health screening, assessment, and
  referral to services are common practice.
• Excellent mental health care is delivered and
  research is accelerated.
• Technology is used to access mental health care
  and information.

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Goal 4 Early Mental Health Screening,
Assessment, and Referral to Services Are Common
Practice

• Recommendations
• 4.1Promote the mental health of young children.
• 4.2Improve and expand school mental health
  programs.
• 4.3Screen for co-occurring mental and substance
  abuse disorders and link with integrated
  treatment strategies.
• 4.4Screen for mental disorders in primary health
  care, across the life span, and connect to
  treatment and support.

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Federal Partners Workgroup
Department of Health and Human
Services AoA NIH/NIDA ACF NIH/NIMH
AHRQ HHS/OS CDC - ASPE CMS - OCR
HRSA - OD IHS - OPHS SAMHSA
Other Partners Department of Agriculture Departmen
t of Education Department of Defense Department
of Housing and Urban Development Department of
Justice Department of Labor Department of
Transportation Department of Veterans Affairs
Social Security Administration Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission
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Federal Action Agenda Transforming Mental
HealthCare in AmericaFirst Steps

• The Federal response to Achieving the Promise
  provides a model of collaborative, values-driven
  steps toward transformation.

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Action Agenda Goals Include

• National Strategy for Suicide Prevention
• Mental health workforce development plan
• Improved interface between primary and mental
  health care services
• National effort focused on the mental health care
  needs of children and promoting early
  intervention for at-risk children
• Expanded science-to-service agenda and new
  evidence-based toolkits.

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Childrens and AdolescentsMental Health
Toll-Free Numbers
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• People, even more than things, have to be
  restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and
  redeemed.
• Audrey Hepburn

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