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Seasons of Change: Mental Health Past, Present,
and Future Paolo del Vecchio, M.S.W., Director
SAMHSA’s Center for Mental Health Services
On Our Own of MarylandColumbia, MD • November 5, 2013
Autumn Is Upon Us
50 Years Ago…A New Frontier
“…reliance on the cold mercy of custodial isolation will be supplanted by the open warmth of community…” – President John F. Kennedy in a special message to Congress about the state of mental health, February 5, 1963
A New Era in Behavioral Health
This Is My Story
This Is My Story
Milestones
Americans with Disabilities Act
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) protects Americans with mental and physical disabilities against discrimination. The act is a landmark piece of legislation signed into law in July 1990.
Olmstead
On June 22, 1999, the Supreme Court decided the case Olmstead v. L.C. Tommy Olmstead was the director of the Georgia Department of Human Resources. L.C., a woman with schizophrenia, believed it was the state’s responsibility to transition her from a publicly-run psychiatric hospital into the community. Tommy Olmstead said that the state didn’t have money for these services. In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court ruled that the state must pay.
Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General
This report covers:• Mental Health Mental Disorders • Mental Health Services • Confidentiality Legislation as • Topic Attention Deficit Disorder
with Hyperactivity Mental • Disorders Diagnosed in
Childhood Anxiety Disorders • Mood Disorders Schizophrenia • Depressive Disorder • Alzheimer Disease
The President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health
This report describes a strategy for mental health care transformation that ensures services and supports that actively facilitate recovery and build resilience. Identifies six goals of transformation and showcases model programs to illustrate goals in practice.
Recovery & Resilience
“When we learn how to become resilient, we learn how to embrace the beautifully broad spectrum of the human experience.” ― Jaeda DeWalt
Defining Recovery
A process of change through which individuals improve their health and wellness, live a self-directed life, and strive to reach their full potential.
– SAMHSA, 2011
Eliminating Seclusion & Restraint
“It is the very use of coercion, positive or negative, that breaks or deadens the spirit, which is the source of motivation.”
― Kelly Bryson, Don't Be Nice, Be Real: Balancing Passion for Self with Compassion for Others
Working Definition of Trauma
Individual trauma results from an event, series of events, or set of circumstances that is experienced by an individual as physically or emotionally harmful or threatening and that has lasting adverse effects on the individual's functioning and physical, social, emotional, or spiritual well-being.
SAMHSA, 2013
Dimensions of Wellness
– Adapted from Swarbrick, M. (2006). A wellness approach. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 29,(4) 311- 314.
Health Disparities
Health Disparities
A Life with Purpose
Feed Your Spirit
Affordable Care Act
Milestone
Peer Support in Health Care
Where Are Peer Supports Delivered ?• Recovery community centers• Faith and community-based organizations• Recovery homes and sober housing• Emergency departments• Addiction and mental health service
agencies• Jails and prisons• Probation and parole programs• Drug courts• HIV/AIDs and other health and social
service centers• Children, youth, and family service
agencies
– Centre of Excellence in Peer Support
Mental Health Is a National Priority
www.mentalhealth.gov
Myths about Mental Health
Harvesting Hope
“Hope is the seed for recovery. It may begin in isolation, but grows and flourishes in community. We must plant and protect the seeds to reap the harvest.” – Paolo del Vecchio
Closing Thoughts
“Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.” ― Chad Sugg
For More Information
SAMHSA1 Choke Cherry Rd.• Rockville, MD • 20857Phone: 1-877-SAMHSA-7 (1-877-726-4727)TTY: 1-800-487-4889Fax: 240-221-4292http://www.samhsa.gov
CMHSPhone: 240-276-1310 Fax: 240-276-1320