Register Now for CADCA’s National Leadership Forum!
Is your coalition looking for a solution to fight underage drinking or prescription drug abuse, or for new ways to strengthen your coalition efforts? Whatever your community’s challenge is, you are sure to find a solution at CADCA’s 18th Annual National Leadership Forum, held Feb. 11-14, 2008 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. CADCA’s Forum is the nation’s largest training event for community coalition leaders and substance abuse professionals, featuring more than 100 workshops on key drug prevention, treatment and issues.
This year’s Forum will feature a keynote presentation by Dr. Drew Pinsky, a board-certified addiction medicine specialist and popular national radio and television host, whose experience with addicts and teens spans more than 20 years. The Forum will kick off with CSAP’s Community Prevention Day on Monday, Feb. 11, 2008, which will focus on leadership and its impact on the vulnerable populations & communities that we serve.
Register now using CADCA’s online registration system. This year, we've streamline the registration process to make it faster and easier than last year. When prompted, enter your user ID, noted above. Remember to register before Friday, January 4, 2008 to receive the early-bird discount.
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Make Your Capitol Hill Day Appointments TODAY
Last year during CADCA´s National Leadership Forum, more than 1,000 coalition leaders and Forum attendees from around the country headed to Capitol Hill to educate their legislators about the effectiveness of substance abuse prevention, education and treatment. Now it´s time for coalitions to gear up for CADCA´s 2008 Capitol Hill Day, held during CADCA´s 18th Annual National Leadership Forum in Washington, D.C., by scheduling appointments with their U.S. senators and representatives. CADCA has allotted time between 1-5 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2008 for appointments.
Appointments should not be made before 1:00 pm, since CADCA expects members of Congress to attend the morning plenary session. It’s also important to try to make appointments on the House side earlier in the day, as the Capitol Hill reception will be held in the evening on the Senate side.
Information on how to set up appointments is located in CADCA’s Capitol Hill Handbook.
For those with five or more people attending a meeting, CADCA can help. Simply complete the CAPITOL HILL MEETINGS FORM and e-mail it to David Kurosky at dkurosky@cadca.org, or via fax at 703-706-0565.
To locate a phone number of a senator or representative, call the Capitol Switchboard at 202- 225-3121 to be connected to the appropriate office. This information can also be found in Appendix A of the Capitol Hill Day Handbook.
For questions or concerns, contact David Kurosky at 703-706-0560 ext. 255 or Kelly Lieupo at klieupo@cadca.org or 703-706-0560 ext. 241.
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Using Social Media Tools to Enhance Coalition Efforts
You hear about people watching podcasts on their iPods and about teens posting messages on their blogs or using Facebook to communicate with their friends, but did you know that these social media tools can also be used to enhance your coalition work? Learn how at CADCA´s National Leadership Forum XVIII, held Feb. 11-14, 2007 in Washington, D.C.
During “Adding Social Media to Your Coalition's Marketing Arsenal” workshop, part of the Forum’s new Science & Technology Series, participants will learn about the growing number of social media tools available, such as blogs, podcasts and RSS Readers, and how to incorporate them into their communications and marketing plans. Another workshop, entitled “Social Networking: Can You Digg It?” will teach participants about the many social networking tools available to help coalition leaders stay knowledgeable and influential, such as Facebook, Wikispaces, Digg and Flickr.
Social media tools, such as blogs or podcasts, are an inexpensive way to enhance a coalition’s marketing and membership or volunteer recruitment efforts.
For example, as a way to attract more members or volunteers, coalitions can podcast recordings or video clips on their websites of current members talking about why they participate in coalition activities. They can also be used as way to involve youth in coalition efforts, by having youth create their own podcasts. Coalitions may also find blogs useful. Blogs, which are websites where people can post entries of text, can allow coalitions to reach a greater number of people with their messages. For example, the coalition director can have his or her own blog, with her own articles or opinions on a subject. The coalition could create a blog and put youth in charge of writing content for it.
Click here to learn more about these and other workshops at CADCA’s National Leadership Forum XVIII
Monday, December 17, 2007
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
FAVOR Advocacy Information
Support Increased FY 2008 Funding for SAMHSA’s Center for Substance Abuse Treatment and the Recovery Community Services (RCSP) Program
(Favor receives funding from Robert Wood Johnson $190,000.00, CSAT $75,000.00 and NIDA $60,000.00)
March 28, 2007
BACKGROUND
For many people, federal and state-funded treatment and recovery services are the only way that they can get help for alcohol and other drug problems and get on the path to long-term recovery. Over 21 million Americans aged 12 or over still need help and aren’t getting it. Almost half of the people who tried to get help were denied treatment because of cost or insurance barriers. The shortage of addiction treatment and peer and other recovery support services results in waiting lists in many places, sometimes as long as six months.
The President’s request of $352.1 million for CSAT in FY 2008 is a decrease of $46.8 million from FY 2007. It includes a $3.9 million cut in the Recovery Community Services Program (RCSP) and the virtual elimination of funding for the National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month.
RCSP Funding
FY 2006 Actual: $8,8 million
FY 2007 Actual: $9.1 million
FY 2008 President’s Proposed: $5.3 million
Decrease: $ -3.9 million
ABOUT THE RECOVERY COMMUNITY SERVICES PROGRAM (RCSP)
RCSP is a key innovative federal program that is helping individuals in their communities get help for addiction to alcohol and other drugs and once they are clean and sober, sustain their recovery and get their lives back on track. The RCSP has supported nearly 50 projects since it began in 1998. Initially the grants were intended to organize the recovery community to provide public education and policy change. In 2002, RCSP changed focus and began supporting organizations that provide services and enable peers in stable recovery to help others avoid relapse and move into long-term recovery.
Across the country, 24 current grantees (six more will be funded in 2007) are providing peer-to-peer recovery support services, pioneering ways that communities can support people in recovery and their families. Many of the grant projects rely on the willingness of individuals in recovery and their family members to voluntarily “give back” to those who are seeking recovery.
The grants’ average awards have been $350,000 per year for each grantee for four years. SAMHSA/CSAT received more than 140 applications for the last grant cycle in FY 2006, seven of which were funded. The agency made no awards in 2005.
Recovery community and faith-based organizations have developed and are demonstrating ways to prevent relapse, promote long-term recovery, and improve the quality of life of tens of thousands of individuals and their families. These community-based organizations have assessed their community’s specific local strengths and needs, developed programs that have been demonstrated to address them, drawing on the abilities of people in long-term recovery who serve as peers.
RCSP promotes a recovery-oriented system of care by bridging the gap between short-term episodes of treatment and long-term recovery that is grounded in community support. Peer services are non-clinical and enhance clinically-driven treatment outcomes through holistic, community-based services. Peer services act as a safety net for individuals who suffer relapse and offer a streamlined reentry to treatment, if necessary. Peer recovery services are completely distinct and separate from 12-step groups and other mutual aid supports. However, the RCSP emphasizes helping individuals create a network of varied recovery supports that can include mutual aid and 12-step supports.
Peer Recovery Support Services include peer coaching and mentoring and a variety of educational and skill-training services, including help in securing housing, education and employment; building constructive family and other personal relationships; managing stress; participating in alcohol-and other drug-free social and recreational activities; and obtaining services from multiple systems such as the primary and mental health care, child welfare, and criminal justice systems. Many of these services are delivered at the growing number of recovery community centers around the country.
The National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine report, Crossing the Quality Chasm: Improving the Quality of Health Care for Mental and Substance-Use Conditions (November 2005) highlighted the long history of peer support/mutual support group/recovery consumers as providers of alcohol and other drug treatment services, pointing to the effective programs being carried out by SAMHSA’s RCSP program.
ABOUT RECOVERY MONTH
For the last seventeen years, September National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month (Recovery Month) observances are held across the country. Public and private sector organizations sponsor a wide variety of events and activities that promote awareness of the reality of long-term recovery from addiction to alcohol and other drugs.
665 Recovery Month events were held in 338 cities in 49 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico in 2006, reaching almost 4 million people.
Road to Recovery Webcasts, in a talk and magazine show format, attracted almost 8,000 views, with more than 318 distinct public education government cable channels in 295 cable systems throughout the country airing the series, reaching more than 15.5 million cable households, representing an estimated earned media value of $4 million.
The Recovery Month web site received more than 15.8 million hits (15,827,985 an indicator of Web server traffic) and the site logged in 981,717 “unique visitors” (an indicator of new visitors).
In total, the overall estimated earned media value for all radio PSAs released from 2002 through 2006 is $9,818,355 with a collective listenership of 1,003,580,689.
2006 Recovery Month events reached almost 4 million people and the television and radio public service announcements reached more than 178 million viewers and 233 million listeners, respectively
(Favor receives funding from Robert Wood Johnson $190,000.00, CSAT $75,000.00 and NIDA $60,000.00)
March 28, 2007
BACKGROUND
For many people, federal and state-funded treatment and recovery services are the only way that they can get help for alcohol and other drug problems and get on the path to long-term recovery. Over 21 million Americans aged 12 or over still need help and aren’t getting it. Almost half of the people who tried to get help were denied treatment because of cost or insurance barriers. The shortage of addiction treatment and peer and other recovery support services results in waiting lists in many places, sometimes as long as six months.
The President’s request of $352.1 million for CSAT in FY 2008 is a decrease of $46.8 million from FY 2007. It includes a $3.9 million cut in the Recovery Community Services Program (RCSP) and the virtual elimination of funding for the National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month.
RCSP Funding
FY 2006 Actual: $8,8 million
FY 2007 Actual: $9.1 million
FY 2008 President’s Proposed: $5.3 million
Decrease: $ -3.9 million
ABOUT THE RECOVERY COMMUNITY SERVICES PROGRAM (RCSP)
RCSP is a key innovative federal program that is helping individuals in their communities get help for addiction to alcohol and other drugs and once they are clean and sober, sustain their recovery and get their lives back on track. The RCSP has supported nearly 50 projects since it began in 1998. Initially the grants were intended to organize the recovery community to provide public education and policy change. In 2002, RCSP changed focus and began supporting organizations that provide services and enable peers in stable recovery to help others avoid relapse and move into long-term recovery.
Across the country, 24 current grantees (six more will be funded in 2007) are providing peer-to-peer recovery support services, pioneering ways that communities can support people in recovery and their families. Many of the grant projects rely on the willingness of individuals in recovery and their family members to voluntarily “give back” to those who are seeking recovery.
The grants’ average awards have been $350,000 per year for each grantee for four years. SAMHSA/CSAT received more than 140 applications for the last grant cycle in FY 2006, seven of which were funded. The agency made no awards in 2005.
Recovery community and faith-based organizations have developed and are demonstrating ways to prevent relapse, promote long-term recovery, and improve the quality of life of tens of thousands of individuals and their families. These community-based organizations have assessed their community’s specific local strengths and needs, developed programs that have been demonstrated to address them, drawing on the abilities of people in long-term recovery who serve as peers.
RCSP promotes a recovery-oriented system of care by bridging the gap between short-term episodes of treatment and long-term recovery that is grounded in community support. Peer services are non-clinical and enhance clinically-driven treatment outcomes through holistic, community-based services. Peer services act as a safety net for individuals who suffer relapse and offer a streamlined reentry to treatment, if necessary. Peer recovery services are completely distinct and separate from 12-step groups and other mutual aid supports. However, the RCSP emphasizes helping individuals create a network of varied recovery supports that can include mutual aid and 12-step supports.
Peer Recovery Support Services include peer coaching and mentoring and a variety of educational and skill-training services, including help in securing housing, education and employment; building constructive family and other personal relationships; managing stress; participating in alcohol-and other drug-free social and recreational activities; and obtaining services from multiple systems such as the primary and mental health care, child welfare, and criminal justice systems. Many of these services are delivered at the growing number of recovery community centers around the country.
The National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine report, Crossing the Quality Chasm: Improving the Quality of Health Care for Mental and Substance-Use Conditions (November 2005) highlighted the long history of peer support/mutual support group/recovery consumers as providers of alcohol and other drug treatment services, pointing to the effective programs being carried out by SAMHSA’s RCSP program.
ABOUT RECOVERY MONTH
For the last seventeen years, September National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month (Recovery Month) observances are held across the country. Public and private sector organizations sponsor a wide variety of events and activities that promote awareness of the reality of long-term recovery from addiction to alcohol and other drugs.
665 Recovery Month events were held in 338 cities in 49 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico in 2006, reaching almost 4 million people.
Road to Recovery Webcasts, in a talk and magazine show format, attracted almost 8,000 views, with more than 318 distinct public education government cable channels in 295 cable systems throughout the country airing the series, reaching more than 15.5 million cable households, representing an estimated earned media value of $4 million.
The Recovery Month web site received more than 15.8 million hits (15,827,985 an indicator of Web server traffic) and the site logged in 981,717 “unique visitors” (an indicator of new visitors).
In total, the overall estimated earned media value for all radio PSAs released from 2002 through 2006 is $9,818,355 with a collective listenership of 1,003,580,689.
2006 Recovery Month events reached almost 4 million people and the television and radio public service announcements reached more than 178 million viewers and 233 million listeners, respectively
CADCA Forum Scholarships
Deadline for Forum Scholarship Applications Extended to Dec. 10
CADCA, along with support from the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) and DIRECTV, is providing scholarships to attend CADCA’s 2008 Forum. Scholarships cover costs related to attending CADCA´s Forum, including registration fees and up to four nights accommodation at the Grand Hyatt Washington Hotel. CADCA encourages youth to apply for these valuable scholarships!
Eligible applicants include CADCA member coalitions that have been in existence for at least six months and coalitions that can demonstrate a financial need for the scholarships. Scholarships will cover no more than one youth and one adult per coalition.
The deadline for scholarship applications has been extended until Monday, December 10.
To learn more about CADCA’s 18th Annual National Leadership Forum, including scholarship information, visit:
www.cadca.org/events/forum/forum18.
CADCA, along with support from the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) and DIRECTV, is providing scholarships to attend CADCA’s 2008 Forum. Scholarships cover costs related to attending CADCA´s Forum, including registration fees and up to four nights accommodation at the Grand Hyatt Washington Hotel. CADCA encourages youth to apply for these valuable scholarships!
Eligible applicants include CADCA member coalitions that have been in existence for at least six months and coalitions that can demonstrate a financial need for the scholarships. Scholarships will cover no more than one youth and one adult per coalition.
The deadline for scholarship applications has been extended until Monday, December 10.
To learn more about CADCA’s 18th Annual National Leadership Forum, including scholarship information, visit:
www.cadca.org/events/forum/forum18.
Faces and Voices of Recovery New Hampshire Recovery Town Hall
Dear Colleagues,
Now that the dust has settled from this past Sunday's first in the nation Presidential Town Hall Meeting which introduced Presidential Candidates and their campaigns to addiction recovery issues, I wanted to provide you with a brief report of the event...
First, I want to say how happy I was that we accomplished many of our goals and to tell you that the event was a great success on so many levels. I was especially pleased with how many campaigns were represented - 9 in all. Seven Democrats - Clinton, Edwards, Obama, Richardson, Kucinich, Biden and Gravel and two Republicans - Huckabee and McCain sent representatives. We came close to getting surrogates for Dodd, Romney and Giuliani but they unfortunately did not come through in the end. Each of the campaign surrogates took the time to educate themselves on our issues and some provided us with prepared statements from the candidates to publish after the event. We could tell from their remarks that they had visited our website and thought about our issues. While it was disappointing that we did not have candidates attend, it wasn't because they don't care about our issues. Rather it was simply a function of the front loaded primary process this cycle. The Iowa Caucus is days away from the New Hampshire Primary making Iowa an important place to campaign right now. Not to mention Michigan, Nevada & South Carolina which are right on the heels of these first two contests. These factors are keeping candidates jumping from state to state trying to get as much face time with voters as possible. Candidates were just not in New Hampshire on Sunday.
We received great media coverage around the event - almost 10 stories in all! This helped educate candidates (who read clippings), public policy makers and members of the general public who were not able to attend, providing them with good information on our issues. This education through media outreach is so important for our long-term work as well as the impact it has on changing negative public attitudes and ending discrimination each time we receive a positive story. I'm attaching some excerpts from an article from the Union Leader (the statewide newspaper of record in New Hampshire ) and some quotes we received from folks who attended the event. I'm also attaching the printed program for the event in case you're interested in seeing how it was laid out.
The actual town hall meeting was impressive on all fronts as we had...
A great moderator - Lisa Peakes, NH Public Radio's Morning Edition Host, and a person in long-term recovery;
A flawless program - which included speeches from candidate's representatives, questions from the audience, a video of the Emmy Award winning HBO documentary, a reaction panel and a recovery speaker;
High profile campaign surrogates - who did an outstanding job representing their candidates (including a State Senator, several State Representatives, A District Attorney, A former Congressional candidate, the former chair of the State Board of Education, etc.);
A wonderful panel - that reacted to the HBO documentary (the panel included: a family member whose son is in recovery, a student from the first recovery high school in NH, a prevention specialist, a treatment provider representative and the director of a recovery community organization - every panelist identified themselves as being in recovery!);
Passionate questioners - people in recovery, family members, students from the school's prevention program, and women from the Taskforce on Women & Recovery (some who identified as being currently incarcerated in a minimum security work release program)
A great recovery speaker - Carol McDaid, a Faces & Voices Board member told her story and called upon those in attendance to take action by seeking candidates on the stump in the next several weeks and asking them questions;
A dedicated committee - who were brought together back in May by Denise Devlin (who put on a similar event 8 years ago),a former Faces & Voices of Recover Board Member and director of FOR-NH;
and Superb volunteers and students - who helped set up the event and worked to help make the day run smoothly.
This event brought together important Granite State partners in the prevention, treatment and recovery communities including family members and provided them the opportunity to work together and speak with one unified voice. We also had several national allies on board (CADCA, Faces & Voices of Recovery, NAADAC, and The National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare). We were grateful to Joe Harding, the Director of the NH Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Policy who supported the event and gave greetings from the State of NH. Former ONDCP Deputy Director (under President Clinton) and State Representative Ricia McMahon was also very helpful in the planning and identifying campaign surrogates. And non-partner organizations like Join Together and New Futures supported the event by promoting it to their extensive email lists.
In addition to the town hall meeting, we were fortunate to meet and talk to several candidates and spouses during the planning process. I personally met Governor Huckabee, Elizabeth Edwards and Bill Clinton. I told them all about the event and I was able to ask Governor Huckabee a question about the parity legislation. Two of our planning committee members also tracked down Senator Biden and Congressman Kucinich and asked them questions. We plan to continue to do this one on one candidate questioning in New Hampshire and we're training folks in Iowa and South Carolina to do the same as part of our larger effort called Recovery Voices Count
Tom Coderre
National Feild Director
Faces and Voices of Recovery
Now that the dust has settled from this past Sunday's first in the nation Presidential Town Hall Meeting which introduced Presidential Candidates and their campaigns to addiction recovery issues, I wanted to provide you with a brief report of the event...
First, I want to say how happy I was that we accomplished many of our goals and to tell you that the event was a great success on so many levels. I was especially pleased with how many campaigns were represented - 9 in all. Seven Democrats - Clinton, Edwards, Obama, Richardson, Kucinich, Biden and Gravel and two Republicans - Huckabee and McCain sent representatives. We came close to getting surrogates for Dodd, Romney and Giuliani but they unfortunately did not come through in the end. Each of the campaign surrogates took the time to educate themselves on our issues and some provided us with prepared statements from the candidates to publish after the event. We could tell from their remarks that they had visited our website and thought about our issues. While it was disappointing that we did not have candidates attend, it wasn't because they don't care about our issues. Rather it was simply a function of the front loaded primary process this cycle. The Iowa Caucus is days away from the New Hampshire Primary making Iowa an important place to campaign right now. Not to mention Michigan, Nevada & South Carolina which are right on the heels of these first two contests. These factors are keeping candidates jumping from state to state trying to get as much face time with voters as possible. Candidates were just not in New Hampshire on Sunday.
We received great media coverage around the event - almost 10 stories in all! This helped educate candidates (who read clippings), public policy makers and members of the general public who were not able to attend, providing them with good information on our issues. This education through media outreach is so important for our long-term work as well as the impact it has on changing negative public attitudes and ending discrimination each time we receive a positive story. I'm attaching some excerpts from an article from the Union Leader (the statewide newspaper of record in New Hampshire ) and some quotes we received from folks who attended the event. I'm also attaching the printed program for the event in case you're interested in seeing how it was laid out.
The actual town hall meeting was impressive on all fronts as we had...
A great moderator - Lisa Peakes, NH Public Radio's Morning Edition Host, and a person in long-term recovery;
A flawless program - which included speeches from candidate's representatives, questions from the audience, a video of the Emmy Award winning HBO documentary, a reaction panel and a recovery speaker;
High profile campaign surrogates - who did an outstanding job representing their candidates (including a State Senator, several State Representatives, A District Attorney, A former Congressional candidate, the former chair of the State Board of Education, etc.);
A wonderful panel - that reacted to the HBO documentary (the panel included: a family member whose son is in recovery, a student from the first recovery high school in NH, a prevention specialist, a treatment provider representative and the director of a recovery community organization - every panelist identified themselves as being in recovery!);
Passionate questioners - people in recovery, family members, students from the school's prevention program, and women from the Taskforce on Women & Recovery (some who identified as being currently incarcerated in a minimum security work release program)
A great recovery speaker - Carol McDaid, a Faces & Voices Board member told her story and called upon those in attendance to take action by seeking candidates on the stump in the next several weeks and asking them questions;
A dedicated committee - who were brought together back in May by Denise Devlin (who put on a similar event 8 years ago),a former Faces & Voices of Recover Board Member and director of FOR-NH;
and Superb volunteers and students - who helped set up the event and worked to help make the day run smoothly.
This event brought together important Granite State partners in the prevention, treatment and recovery communities including family members and provided them the opportunity to work together and speak with one unified voice. We also had several national allies on board (CADCA, Faces & Voices of Recovery, NAADAC, and The National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare). We were grateful to Joe Harding, the Director of the NH Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Policy who supported the event and gave greetings from the State of NH. Former ONDCP Deputy Director (under President Clinton) and State Representative Ricia McMahon was also very helpful in the planning and identifying campaign surrogates. And non-partner organizations like Join Together and New Futures supported the event by promoting it to their extensive email lists.
In addition to the town hall meeting, we were fortunate to meet and talk to several candidates and spouses during the planning process. I personally met Governor Huckabee, Elizabeth Edwards and Bill Clinton. I told them all about the event and I was able to ask Governor Huckabee a question about the parity legislation. Two of our planning committee members also tracked down Senator Biden and Congressman Kucinich and asked them questions. We plan to continue to do this one on one candidate questioning in New Hampshire and we're training folks in Iowa and South Carolina to do the same as part of our larger effort called Recovery Voices Count
Tom Coderre
National Feild Director
Faces and Voices of Recovery
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Standing for the Whole
74th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2007 Regular Session NOTE: Matter within { + braces and plus signs + } in anamended section is new. Matter within { - braces and minussigns - } is existing law to be omitted. New sections are within { + braces and plus signs + } . LC 2294 A-Engrossed Senate Bill 791 Ordered by the Senate May 11 Including Senate Amendments dated May 11 Sponsored by Senator WESTLUND; Senators BURDICK, DEVLIN, WALKER, Representatives BRUUN, DINGFELDER, GILMAN, GREENLICK, HUNT, KOMP, KRIEGER, MAURER, NELSON, READ, SCHAUFLER, SHIELDS, G SMITH, TOMEI, WITT (at the request of Coalition for Responsible Treatment, United Seniors of Oregon, Oregon State Council for Retired Citizens, Gray Panthers of Oregon) SUMMARY The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of themeasure and is not a part of the body thereof subject toconsideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor'sbrief statement of the essential features of the measure. Creates Task Force on Mental Health and Addiction Services forUnderserved Populations. Declares emergency, effective on passage. A BILL FOR AN ACTRelating to Task Force on Mental Health and Addiction Services for Underserved Populations; and declaring an emergency.Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon: SECTION 1. { + (1) There is created the Task Force on MentalHealth and Addiction Services for Underserved Populationsconsisting of 24 members appointed as follows: (a) The President of the Senate shall appoint two members fromamong members of the Senate. (b) The Speaker of the House of Representatives shall appointtwo members from among members of the House of Representatives. (c) The Governor shall appoint 20 members as follows: (A) Two representatives of the Department of Human Services whoare experienced with community-based issues, services andprograms related to seniors and persons with disabilities; (B) Two representatives of the Department of Human Services whoare experienced with community-based issues, services andprograms related to mental health and addiction services; (C) Two representatives of area agencies on aging; (D) Three representatives of county mental health programs,including one program consumer or one family member of aconsumer; (E) Two persons who are providers of mental health andaddiction services; (F) Two persons from the office of multicultural health in theDepartment of Human Services; (G) Two persons who are consumers of services provided by theDepartment of Human Services; (H) Four persons representing advocacy or consumerorganizations that act on behalf of seniors, persons withdisabilities or racial and ethnic populations; and (I) One representative of an organization providing advocacy onbehalf of persons with mental health needs. (2) The task force shall develop a plan for a comprehensive,integrated system of mental health and addiction services forseniors, persons with disabilities and persons in underservedracial or ethnic communities. (3) The task force may: (a) Study, assess and recommend programs and projects,including pilot projects, to encourage coordinated efforts at thestate and local levels to improve the state's mental health andaddiction services delivery system; (b) Develop recommendations for appropriate and adequatescreening of mental health and addiction needs in communitysettings; (c) Assess and make recommendations concerning the treatment ofoffenders with mental illnesses; and (d) Undertake any other strategy designed to increase andimprove mental health and addiction services for seniors, personswith disabilities and persons in underserved racial or ethniccommunities. (4) A majority of the members of the task force constitutes aquorum for the transaction of business. (5) Official action by the task force requires the approval ofa majority of the members of the task force. (6) The task force shall elect one of its members to serve aschairperson. (7) If there is a vacancy for any cause, the appointingauthority shall make an appointment to become immediatelyeffective. (8) The task force shall meet at times and places specified bythe call of the chairperson or of a majority of the members ofthe task force. (9) The task force may adopt rules necessary for the operationof the task force. (10) The task force shall submit a report, and may includerecommendations for legislation, to an interim committee relatedto human services no later than October 1, 2008. (11) The Department of Human Services shall provide staffsupport to the task force. (12) All agencies of state government, as defined in ORS174.111, are directed to assist the task force in the performanceof its duties and, to the extent permitted by laws relating toconfidentiality, to furnish such information and advice as themembers of the task force consider necessary to perform theirduties. + } SECTION 2. { + Section 1 of this 2007 Act is repealed on thedate of the convening of the next regular biennial legislativesession. + } SECTION 3. { + This 2007 Act being necessary for the immediatepreservation of the public peace, health and safety, an emergencyis declared to exist, and this 2007 Act takes effect on itspassage. + } ----------
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