Substance Abuse and Mental Health Professionals: Fellow Travelers On the Road to Healthier Communiti

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Substance Abuse and Mental Health Professionals
Fellow Travelers On the Road to Healthier
Communities

• Anne Mathews-Younes, Ed.D.
• Director, Division of Prevention, Traumatic
  Stress, and Special Populations
• Center for Mental Health Services

New York, NY August 29, 2005
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Co-Occurrence of Substance Use Disorders and
Serious Mental Illnesses Among Adults Aged 18 or
Older (2003)
Co-Occurring Disorders
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SAMHSAs Four Redwood Programs

• Address the needs of adults and youth with
  co-occurring mental and substance use disorders.
• Build substance abuse treatment capacity.
• Implement the Strategic Prevention Framework.
• Transform the mental health system.

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Federal Partners Workgroup
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Federal Action Agenda First Steps(available
online at www.samhsa.gov)

• Provides a model for shared responsibility at
  State and local levels.
• Features the five principles around which the New
  Freedom Commission (NFC) on Mental Health framed
  its vision, crosswalked with the NFCs six goals.
  
• Describes the "state of success" for each
  principle.
• Highlights current activities and proposes Year 1
  action steps for each principle.

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SAMHSAs Commitment to Integrated Treatment

• State Incentive Grants for Co-Occurring Disorders
  
• National Policy Academies on Co-Occurring
  Substance Abuse and Mental Disorders
• Co-Occurring Center for Excellence (COCE)

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Co-Occurring Center for Excellence
http//coce.samhsa.gov/
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The Science-to-Service Cycle
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How can we work together better to promote
prevention and recovery among those we serve?

• Embrace a behavioral health perspective that
  honors the whole personmind and body.
• Adopt a consensus definition of recovery.
• Encourage professionals in primary care and
  mental, substance abuse, and behavioral health
  care to share experiences as a community.
• Model the collaborative behaviors we want to
  promote.

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• When we work together to prevent and treat
  co-occurring mental and substance abuse
  disorders, we will
• Transform our mental health system.
• Create healthier communities for all Americans.
• Transform lives!

Thank you.
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