Transforming Mental Health Services: Implementing the Federal Agenda for Change Book

Introduction. Part I: Updated Issue Papers from the Commission Subcommittees. Transforming mental health care at the interface with general medicine: report for the President’s Commission. Employment barriers for persons with psychiatric disabilities: update of a report for the President’s Commission. Housing for people with mental illness: update of a report to the President’s New Freedom Commission. Issues in Medicaid policy and system transformation: recommendations from the President’s Commission. Part II: Themes from the Commission. Insights and opportunities: Medicaid directors identify mental health issues. Transformation of children’s mental health services: the role of school mental health. The top ten concerns about recovery encountered in mental health system transformation. Barriers to recovery and recommendations for change: the Pennsylvania Consensus Conference on psychiatry’s role. Transforming mental health and substance abuse data systems in the United States. Delivery of excellent mental health care and acceleration of research: federal activities since the President’s Commission report. Part III: State Examples of Transformation. Transformation of the California mental health system: stakeholder-driven planning as a transformational activity. “We never used to do things this way”: behavioral health care reform in New Mexico. Mental health transformation: moving toward a public health, early-intervention approach in Texas. Developing statewide consumer networks. Mending Missouri’s safety net: transforming systems of care by integrating primary and behavioral health care. Part IV: Progress and Next Steps. Mental health policy and services five years after the President’s Commission report: an interview with Michael F. Hogan. A public health model of mental health for the 21st century.