Podcasts about assisted outpatient treatment

Send us a textAnne Corcoran, Executive Director of the National Shattering Silence Coalition, discusses the broken systems that fail those with serious mental illness and their families through discriminatory practices and neglect. She shares powerful stories of families desperately seeking help for loved ones in psychosis, highlighting how outdated laws and policies create barriers to treatment until tragedy strikes.• Explaining the difference between stigma and the true barriers to treatment for serious mental illness• Exploring anosognosia - the neurological inability to recognize one's own illness• Advocating for Assisted Outpatient Treatment laws to provide early intervention before hospitalization• Illuminating how prisons have become de facto mental health institutions with 70-90% of inmates having mental illness• Sharing concrete strategies for families to navigate the mental health and criminal justice systems• Demonstrating how legislative change requires education and family stories to overcome misinformation• Explaining how untreated psychosis, not lack of housing, drives many mentally ill individuals to homelessness• Highlighting the cost savings ($15+ million in one county) when proper treatment replaces incarcerationConnect with the National Shattering Silence Coalition at nsscoalition.org to learn how you can help change policies that discriminate against those with serious mental illness or to get assistance navigating these complex systems.https://tonymantor.comhttps://Facebook.com/tonymantorhttps://instagram.com/tonymantorhttps://twitter.com/tonymantorhttps://youtube.com/tonymantormusicintro/outro music bed written by T. WildWhy Not Me the World music published by Mantor Music (BMI)

Send us a textLaura Krachun shares her son's harrowing journey with serious mental illness and the systemic failures that criminalize mental health conditions instead of treating them. Her story highlights the urgent need for better policies to support individuals with psychosis and their families.• Laura's son was misdiagnosed with ADHD before eventually being diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder at age 20• Cannabis use potentially triggered or worsened his psychotic symptoms• Despite 16 attempts to get help through ERs and police, the family faced constant rejection from healthcare facilities• Anosognosia (lack of illness awareness) prevented her son from voluntarily seeking treatment• After a violent episode, her son entered the justice system rather than receiving appropriate psychiatric care• Their state's mental health department only offers services to those who volunteer, excluding those with anosognosia• The legal system spent resources on 72 court hearings rather than on treatment• Laura advocates for Assisted Outpatient Treatment laws to bridge the gap between legal and medical systems• Better education is needed for judges, lawyers, and medical professionals about serious mental illnessWe ask that you tell everyone everywhere about Why Not Me? The World, the conversations we're having, and the inspiration our guests give to everyone everywhere that you are not alone in this world.https://tonymantor.comhttps://Facebook.com/tonymantorhttps://instagram.com/tonymantorhttps://twitter.com/tonymantorhttps://youtube.com/tonymantormusicintro/outro music bed written by T. WildWhy Not Me the World music published by Mantor Music (BMI)

Send us a textTim Murphy, former congressman and psychologist, shares his journey advocating for mental health reform through the Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act and highlights the systemic failures in America's approach to serious mental illness.• Serious mental illness requires different treatment approaches than general mental health concerns• Current Medicaid restrictions only allow 15-day hospital stays with a 190-day lifetime limit• HIPAA laws often prevent necessary communication between doctors and families of mentally ill patients• Approximately 40% of prison inmates have serious mental illness, with jails becoming de facto psychiatric facilities• SAMHSA (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration) lacks accountability for billions in spending• Schizophrenia alone costs America approximately $380 billion annually across healthcare, criminal justice, and social services• Assisted Outpatient Treatment provides court-ordered care for those with severe mental illness who lack insight into their condition• Mental health advocacy requires specific, actionable requests to legislators rather than general appeals• Reform needs include lifting hospital bed restrictions, modifying HIPAA laws, and implementing stronger program accountabilityVisit drtimmurphy.com to read articles with plans for advocacy and reform in mental health policy.https://tonymantor.comhttps://Facebook.com/tonymantorhttps://instagram.com/tonymantorhttps://twitter.com/tonymantorhttps://youtube.com/tonymantormusicintro/outro music bed written by T. WildWhy Not Me the World music published by Mantor Music (BMI)

Welcome back to episode four of our Health and Fitness mini series! Troy Burden and Amanda DiGiacomo had the opportunity to sit down with Stacy Kuwahara the Director for Kern Behavioral Health and Recovery Services and Anna Marie Frank the Founder of Happy Whole You to discuss the importance of mental health. Anna outlined the services she offers at Happy Whole You and how she strives to help others with their mental health journey after struggling with it herself during her younger years. Stacy explains the common issues she comes across in her field of expertise and how they can be prevented with early intervention. If you have questions regarding mental health please listen to this week's episode and reach out to either Anna Marie Frank or Stacy Kuwahara.  Stacy Kuwahara is the Behavioral Health Director for Kern Behavioral Health and Recovery Services. She oversees the Kern County Mental Health Plan, responsible for providing a full array of mental health and substance use services for Medi-Cal Beneficiaries in Kern. She is a licensed Marriage Family Therapist and has over 20 years' experience working in the mental health field. Prior to working in the county, she has worked throughout California for private organizations and spent time working for the National Health System in England. She holds a Master's degree in Counseling Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. Anna Marie is a doctor of Traditional Naturopathy, with a PhD in Holistic Medicine. She is also a certified brain health professional, ICF certified coach, certified master herbalist, and lover of life! She is also an author, speaker, employee wellness consultant, and mindset/Quantum Body Energy Coding coach. Her mission is to end mental health stigmas and help all people upgrade their brains and biology through lifestyle choices while rewiring their neuro pathways using holistic modalities. Anna Marie healed her own brain after years of depression and challenges with dyslexia and ADD. She is the creator and owner of Happy Whole You. A brain health-focused wellness center located in Bakersfield, California, and Raleigh, North Carolina. Anna Marie is also the formulator of her own brain nutraceutical line which includes, “Happy You, Calm You, & Bright You.” And she is the author of the self-improvement book, “Stop Bullying Yourself!” a guide to greater health, wealth, happiness, and success. Additionally, Anna Marie has training from the Gerson Institute, Amen clinics, Integrative nutrition institute, Mindvalley, the National Wellness Institute, WELCOA Wellness Council of America, and more. She is a lifelong learner and continues to expand in the field of wellbeing.  LEARN MORE ABOUT KERN COUNTY BEHAVIORAL HEALTH AND RECOVERY SERVICES:  Website: www.kernbhrs.org/ Email: kburton@kleinlaw.com Phone Numbers:  The access & Assessment Center: 661-686-8080 24 Hour Crisis Hotline Toll Free: 1-800-991-5272 24 Hour Substance Use: 1-866-266-4898 Assisted Outpatient Treatment: 844-360-8251 Family Advocacy Services: 844-360-8250 Instagram: kernbhrs Facebook: Kern_Behavioral_Health_and_Recovery_Services LinkedIn: KernBehabioralHealthandRecoveryServices Twitter: https://twitter.com/KernBHRS LEARN MORE ABOUT HAPPY WHOLE YOU:  Website: https://happywholeyou.com/  Email: info@happywholeyou.com Phone Number: 661-337-0216 Instagram: happywholeyou Facebook: Happy_Whole_You LinkedIn: Anna_Marie_Frank    

May 2, 2023 ~ Mark Tisdel (R-Rochester Hills), State Representative in Michigan's 55th District, talks with Guy Gordon and Jamie Edmonds about his op-ed in the Detroit News about why Michigan must strengthen the Assisted Outpatient Treatment system.

Episode 4 in the Summit Pointe Series focuses on what amounts to critical, life-saving care: Assisted Outpatient Treatment. The AOT model is practiced around the country, including at Summit Pointe in Calhoun County, Michigan where court-ordered treatment supervision is necessary for some.Lakeyta and Stacia discuss their front-line work to assist people to receive the treatment they cannot get without assistance.—-Could your organization or business use purposeful exposure like this in order to share your story? Check out Livemic Communications for more information.

Serious Mental Illness and Homelessness An interview with California State Senator Henry Stern and Dr. Curley Bonds, Chief Medical Officer for Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health about legislation and programmatic changes needed to better serve highly vulnerable individuals. Curt and Katie talk with both Senator Stern and Dr. Bonds about the limitations of Laura’s Law and the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act as well as the hope for stronger, more collaborative mental health initiatives for individuals grappling with serious mental illness and homelessness. We talk about the practical funding and workforce concerns as well as how to fix them while also supporting mental health professionals.     It’s time to reimagine therapy and what it means to be a therapist. To support you as a whole person and a therapist, your hosts, Curt Widhalm and Katie Vernoy talk about how to approach the role of therapist in the modern age. Interview with Senator Henry Stern (D-Los Angeles) and Dr. Curley Bonds, CMO for LA County Department of Mental Health Senator Henry Stern is a sixth-generation Californian and native of the greater Los Angeles area who has represented the nearly one million residents of the 27th Senate District since first being elected to serve the 27th Senate District in November 2016. Stern has chaired the Senate Natural Resources & Water Committee since 2018, where he has worked tirelessly to bolster the state’s wildfire preparedness, push to have the state address the climate change emergency, improve our democracy and fight to help some of California’s most vulnerable members.  He was also recently appointed as Chair of the Joint Legislative Committee on Emergency Management. In addition, Stern sits on the Senate’s Budget, Environmental Quality, Judiciary, and Energy, Utilities & Communications committees, as well as the Budget Subcommittee on Resources, Environmental Protection & Energy. A former educator and environmental attorney, Stern received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University and earned his law degree at UC Berkeley. Born in 1982, Stern lives in Los Angeles County with his wife, Alexandra Stern, whom he married in 2019. Curley L. Bonds, M.D., oversees all clinical practices for the Los Angeles Country Department of Mental Health (LACDMH) as well as the full range of programs that function to engage and stabilize clients by bringing them into the Department’s community-based system of care. Dr. Bonds is a psychiatrist with extensive experience in a variety of clinical, academic and research settings. Most recently, he was the Chair of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine at Charles R. Drew University School of Medicine in Los Angeles and the Medical Director for Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services. His areas of expertise include healthcare disparities, cross cultural psychiatry, psychosomatic medicine, and collaborative healthcare. Dr. Bonds has won numerous teaching and advocacy awards including Chief Resident of the Year in 1996 and The Exemplary Psychiatrist Award from the National Alliance on Mental Illness in 2009. He is active with several professional organizations including the American Association of Community Psychiatrists, the Association of LGBTQ Psychiatrists, the Black Psychiatrists of America and the American Psychiatric Association. Dr. Bonds is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a Fellow of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry. He is a past president of the Southern California Psychiatric Society and the recipient of their 2018 Distinguished Service Award. He completed his B.A. in sociology at Emory University and earned his M.D. from Indiana University School of Medicine. In this episode we talk about: Continuing our special series on Fixing Mental Healthcare in America What the ideal mental health care can look like for individuals with serious mental illness, substance abuse treatment, and navigating homelessness The siloed nature of services at present The importance of consistent engagement and familiarity Recovery-oriented and person-centered care The importance of self-directed care Wraparound services The importance of engaging people with lived experience Culturally responsive services The current laws protect autonomy without the means to support people without capacity The bureaucracy that is keeping people from getting the services they need Changes to Laura’s Law and LPS Act that are needed to better serve individuals with grave disability or require conservatorship Engagement, rights, and how to better serve individuals Assisted Outpatient Treatment – how it can be best utilized and most effective The ability to shift things through budget and regulatory changes The understanding that current caseloads that are too high and the need to add resources Alternatives to long term conservatorship The willingness to invest in services and solutions Balancing the tension between self-advocacy/self-determination versus providing care Mental Health Advanced Directives as a tool to help with making these decisions Who can and should be at the table in making these decisions The desire to invest in people to provide services Whether to invest and how to assess efficacy The problem of the fragmented systems and communication about mental health advanced directives The importance of education for people needing and providing care on the options Looking at the benefits and “selling” the positive elements of assisted treatment Letting clinicians do clinical work – why that’s important and ideas of how to make it work Tracking outcomes effectively while diminishing bureaucracy Looking at the most effective goals and outcomes for clients Looking at unfunded mandates and how to support therapists and clients to get services without so much paper pushing and complicated outcomes Having service providers at the table to create the programs effectively Results-driven metrics and payment (the pros and cons) Addressing policy and stigma Looking at the problems with the current process for services and conservatorship Ideas for redirecting funding and working in collaboration with law enforcement How to take part in these efforts and weigh in on legislation, especially early in the process Our reflections on the interviews and the next steps Our Generous Sponsors: Mulberry Web Design Mulberry is a creative studio known for building fabulous custom websites, reasonable rates, and an obsessive dedication to customer service. 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Sometimes the best parts of the conversation happen after we press "stop" - so today we captured what happened after that. Guest is Eric Smith, a nationally recognized mental health advocate, public speaker, and consultant on matters of severe mental illness (SMI). He is also a graduate of assisted outpatient treatment (AOT). AfterWords:Why does Eric advocate for AOT?What about AOT for someone who isn't as “stellar” as Eric?What's a real human right? To make your own decision to refuse treatment while your brain is ill, or to receive “ordered” treatment when you're  not yet aware that you need it?Treatment, Structure. Purpose, Love - 4 elements of success.“The least amount of harm and the most amount of good”When families refuse to be the caretakers -what team can take over if we fight for it?The pitfalls of the child-parent dynamicFrom Serious mental Illness to   Thriving in reality

What is an outpatient commitment? Jesse interviews Brian Stettin and Sera Davidow about Assisted Outpatient Treatment.   Guests in this episode are: Brian Stettin: https://www.treatmentadvocacycenter.org/ “Stopping The Revolving Door”: https://vimeo.com/26171883   Sera Davidow: https://wildfloweralliance.org/   Episode transcript: https://sensiblenonsense.squarespace.com/committables1-episode-1transcript/2021/9/9/s1-episode-6-outpatient-commitments-transcript   Committable is produced by Jesse Mangan, Jim McQuaid and Michelle Stockman. https://sensiblenonsense.squarespace.com/committable All music is from the song Reasonable by Christopher G. Brown. https://christophergbrown.bandcamp.com/track/reasonable

We talk with Betsy Johnson of the Treatment Advocacy Center about Cuyahoga County's Assisted Outpatient Treatment program (AOT), a voluntary, supportive program that has been a godsend to families of people with severe mental illness who have frequent emergency hospital admissions, experience homelessness, incur legal involvement or experience other severe and even life-threatening consequences due to untreated mental illness.

Episode 15 of the Mental Horizons Podcast was with Bebe Smith, MSW, LCSW and the topic is Psychiatric Advance Directives. Bebe is director of mental health and coordinator of the North Carolina Evidence Based Practices Center at Southern Regional Area Health Education Center, part of the North Carolina AHEC system. She is also project coordinator for the Crisis Navigation Project, a collaboration between SR-AHEC, Duke University Medical Center, and NAMI-NC to promote the use of psychiatric advance directives. Prior to joining SR-AHEC, she worked for 21 years at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the Department of Psychiatry and the School of Social Work. She has taught mental health professionals from multiple disciplines in clinical and academic settings. Her clinical work has focused on providing humane and evidence-based treatment and services to persons who live with schizophrenia and other severe mental illnesses. In 2005, she helped develop OASIS, the first early psychosis program in North Carolina. She was a founder and co-director of the UNC Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health in 2008. She led a pilot of Critical Time Intervention (CTI), a team-based intensive case management model originally developed for people experiencing homelessness, from 2012-2015. CTI was adopted for statewide expansion in 2014. She trains nationally and internationally in the CTI model and other psychosocial treatment approaches. She was the NASW-NC Social Worker of the Year in 2012, and won the Bryan Public Service Award from the Carolina Center for Public Service in 2015. Three main talking points: 1. Bebe talks with Virgil about her leadership roles in mental health and the ways she has had to challenge the mental health system throughout her career. 2. Bebe teaches the listener about Psychiatric Advance Directives and how they can be powerful tools to help people maintain autonomy and a sense of control amidst crisis. 3. And lastly, Bebe and Virgil discuss psychiatric advance directives and Assisted Outpatient Treatment. How are these two things related, if at all? Can they both protect a person's autonomy or are they on two ends of a spectrum? If so, how do we reconcile this dichotomy and not get bogged down in ideology when the goal is serving the best interests of the individual?

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John J. Lennon has carved out a career as a journalist while locked up in New York's Sing Sing Correctional Facility while serving time for murder. His writing often profiles inmates whose cases resonate with larger issues in society -- our last discussion centered on Andrew Golstein, a schizophrenic convicted of pushing a woman in front of a subway train. Now, we delve into John's latest piece, co-authored by Bill Keller of the Marshall Project which parses the impacts of Kendra's Law, Assisted Outpatient Treatment, and what will happen with Goldstein upon his release from prison.

What is the best way to care for patients with severe mental illness? The United States has struggled with this question for decades. In 1963, President Kennedy signed a law that was supposed to transfer patients with severe mental illness out of hospitals and back into their communities -- into outpatient treatment. That effort hasn't really worked. A lot these patients end up homeless. Many are in prison or jail. One recent study found that more than half of all inmates have some kind of mental illness. Summit County, Ohio, thinks it has a solution: court-ordered outpatient treatment. It’s often called Assisted Outpatient Treatment, or AOT for short. That’s sort of what President Kennedy hoped for: treatment outside of the hospital, in the community. But the treatment is enforced by the courts -- and that’s what makes it so controversial. We had music on this episode from Blue Dot Sessions, Chris Zabriske, Kevin MacLeod, and Poddington Bear. Please email us your feedback to impact@vox.com.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

DJ Jaffe and Stephen Eide join Howard Husock to discuss severe mental illness and the deficiencies in mental health services in New York City and across the country. DJ Jaffe is the author of an important new book, Insane Consequences: How the Mental Health Industry Fails the Mentally Ill. He is executive director of Mental Illness Policy Org., a nonpartisan think tank, which creates detailed policy analysis for legislators, the media, and advocates. Stephen Eide is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and author of a recent report, Assisted Outpatient Treatment in New York State: The Case for Making Kendra's Law Permanent. His piece featured in the Spring 2017 Issue of City Journal, Failure to Thrive, dissects New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s signature mental health initiative, Thrive NYC.

Brian Stettin from the treatment advocacy center stopped by the CIT Knowledge Network to give a talk about the history of AOT. This is a unique law that directly impacts communities and public safety. The Treatment Advocacy Center was founded in Arlington, Virginia, by E. Fuller Torrey, MD, in 1998. Dr. Torrey had worked for 15 years at a Washington, DC, clinic for homeless people with severe mental illness and authored Out of the Shadows: Confronting America’s Mental Illness Crisis about the criminalization of mental illness. After consulting with other experts in the mental health and legal fields, he concluded that a concentrated effort was needed to reform state civil commitment laws so that decompensating individuals with severe mental illness received treatment before they became dangerous, homeless, incarcerated, victimized or suffered other common consequences of non-treatment.Support the show (https://www.paypal.com/donate/?token=4Z-T3A1LPSUP3tcGbzXY9LF4511KMzsngJOcoo1ZS1K07sQo0oqdDjX0_3uPa9FD7kb8K0&country.x=US&locale.x=US)