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NAMI Stark County Newsletter 1
Building Hope For Recovery Through Support Education and Advocacy
The County’s Voice on Mental Illness December 2012
I N S I D E T H I S I S S U E
1-2 News from the Director
1-6 News from the World
2&4 Walk Corner, Faithnet News, Book Review
7 Calendar
8 Support Groups – Education Programs
NEWS from the Executive
Director
Hello NAMI Members and Friends,
As we approach the end of 2012, we are busy scheduling
programs for the coming year. Our commitment for 2013
continues to be “Building Hope for Recovery through
Education, Support and Advocacy” for persons and
families impacted by mental illness. NAMI Stark County
knows that at any given time, 1 in 4 is impacted by mental
illness and that 50% of those living with mental illness
also have a substance use issue. NAMI Stark County, an
affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, the
nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization, is
dedicated to building better lives for the thousands of
Stark County residents affected by mental illness. NAMI
advocates for access to services, treatment, supports and
research and is steadfast in its commitment to raising
awareness and building a community of hope for all of
those in need.
We plan to offer Family to Family (for family members of
an adult living with mental illness) 5 times in 2013. Peer
to Peer will be offered 5 times as well (for adults living
with mental illness). Basics, which is for parents of
children/adolescents with behavioral health issues will be
offered 3 times as will WRAP (for adults with mental
illness). In addition, we will continue to offer an ever
growing number of support groups (currently 11) within
Mental Health & Juvenile Justice Task Force
Report Released The Ohio Interagency Task Force on Mental Health
& Juvenile Justice released a report this week which
concluded a "significant percentage" of Ohio youth
need behavioral health services but can't get them,
resulting in many ending up in the juvenile justice
system. The report came with several
recommendations to address the problem, including
the development of new programs and
facilities. DYS Director Harvey Reed, the task force
chairman, said in a release that half of the youth in
the custody of the agency are on the mental health
caseload. The first five recommendations from the
report, which were delivered recently to the
Governor, the Legislature, and the Ohio Supreme
Court, are:
The development of a Psychiatric Residential
Treatment Facility or similar model, designed to offer
intense, focused mental health treatment to youth
committed to DYS to promote a successful return of
youth to their community.
The development, in collaboration with the Health and
Human Services Cabinet Agencies, of a step-
down/transition program for the youth with serious
emotional disturbance (SED) involved in the above
intensive inpatient treatment program and who remain
on the mental health caseload that may include
intensive home based treatment (IHBT), partial
hospitalization (PH) and/or day treatment.
The transition, on or before July 1, 2013, of Intensive
Home Based Treatment (IHBT) to a Medicaid
reimbursed service. Upon CMS (Centers for Medicare
and Medicaid Services) approval, training and
technical assistance needed for the expansion of IHBT
shall be provided.
The modification and replication by ODMH of its
Community Linkages program linking youth involved
in the juvenile justice system that have SED and/or
severe mental illnesses and their families to facilitate
the timely provision of community mental health
NAMI Stark County Newsletter 2
continued from page 1
services and supports upon release from DYS. In
counties where established, youth on the DYS
mental health caseload and/or youth with SED
shall be linked to Community Behavioral Health
Centers' Health Homes. The agency said work
on this recommendation is already underway.
DYS, in collaboration with ODMH, will select and
implement a statewide, culturally appropriate
standardized screening instrument specific to mental
health and trauma to be used at the earliest contact points
youth enter the juvenile justice system.
--Up to the Minute Web News October 3, 2012
NEW book study/discussion to begin on
January 13, 2013
Faithnet at Wendy's on 3320 Whipple NW
Sunday 5:30-6:30pm
Who Switched Off My Brain? by Dr.
Caroline Leaf, PhD The book is available at www.drleaf.net
Dr. Peter Amua-Quarshie, MD, Medicine
and Neuroscience states, "Dr. Caroline
Leaf's gift is explaining the mind-body
connection in understandable terms. I
enjoyed this book as a medical doctor and
neuroscientist and as a person seeking
optimal health in spirit, soul, and body."
Part 1: Switch on Your Brain
Part 2: Stress
Part 3: The Science of Thought
Part 4: The Dirty Dozen
Planning has already begun for the 2013 Moving Forward
for Mental Health Walk. The date is set, October 12,
2013. We will again be utilizing the Hoover Park and
associated Trail. The walk committee is meeting monthly
and I invite you to join us. Our next meeting is December
13, 2012 at 5:30 at the McKinley Building (where the
NAMI Office is). This month we will focus on
sponsors. If you know of a business in Stark County that
would make a great sponsor, please contact me or the
office so we can ensure they receive sponsor
materials. We are still looking for a few volunteers to
head a committee or to be on a committee.
See you in December
Jen Powell-Campbell – Walk Manager
JPC@neo.rr.com
330-327-7490
the county including 3 in-hospital groups and 1 at
Refuge of Hope. We are working on opening one at
Basics Accommodations. The family involvement
program initially started at Heartland Behavioral
Health this year will outreach to family members of
hospitalized patients to provide support and education
as well as mentoring. We will once again provide
discharge bags for patients exiting Heartland
Behavioral Health. NAMI will continue to participate
in CIT training and community outreach. We will host
our 3rd
annual Moving Forward for Mental Health
walk which will be held on Saturday, October 12th at
the Hoover Park Pavilion. On March 12th we will host
our 4th annual Celebration of Volunteerism, Wellness
and Recovery. 2013 will bring with it a change in
office location as well; to be announced in the coming
month. We hope to implement Vet to Vet and Family
Vet to Vet in 2013. Another area of interest continues
to be implementing a Peer Specialist program to assist
adult peers with peer support, mentoring and
advocacy. We currently have 3 highly qualified peers
certified through ODMH as Certified Peer Support
Specialists ready and willing to work in such a
capacity. Lastly, we hope the new newsletter format
we are introducing with this edition will serve you
well.
On behalf of NAMI Stark County’s board and staff I
wish for each of you a healthy, stable, stress free
holiday season and 2013!
Jane
NAMI Stark County Newsletter 3
U.S. Set to Sponsor Health Insurance
By ROBERT PEAR
Published: October 27, 2012
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration will soon
take on a new role as the sponsor of at least two
nationwide health insurance plans to be operated under
contract with the federal government and offered to
consumers in every state.
These multistate plans were included in President
Obama’s [Affordable Healthcare Ac] as a substitute for a
pure government-run health insurance program.
Supporters of the national plans say they will increase
competition in state health insurance markets, many of
which are dominated by a handful of companies.
The national plans will compete directly with other
private insurers and may have some significant
advantages, including a federal seal of approval.
Premiums and benefits for the multistate insurance
plans will be negotiated by theUnited States Office of
Personnel Management, the agency that arranges health
benefits for federal employees.
Walton J. Francis, the author of a consumer guide to
health plans for federal employees, said the personnel
agency had been “extraordinarily successful” in
managing that program, which has more than 200 health
plans, including about 20 offered nationwide. The
personnel agency has earned high marks for its ability to
secure good terms for federal workers through
negotiation rather than heavy-handed regulation of
insurers.
John J. O’Brien, the director of health care and insurance
at the agency, said the new plans would be offered to
individuals and small employers through the insurance
exchanges being set up in every state under the 2010
health care law.
No one knows how many people will sign up for the
government-sponsored plans. In preparing cost
estimates, the Obama administration told insurers to
assume that each national plan would have 750,000
people enrolled in the first year.
Under the Affordable Care Act, at least one of the
nationwide plans must be offered by a nonprofit entity.
Insurance experts see an obvious candidate for that
role: theGovernment Employees Health Association, a
nonprofit group that covers more than 900,000 federal
employees, retirees and dependents, making it the
second-largest plan for federal workers, after the Blue
Cross and Blue Shield program
--New York Times via NAMI Ohio State Advocacy
Update
On March 23, 2010, President Barack Obama
signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) into law. It includes a number of
significant changes to America’s health care system, including a requirement that every
American have health care coverage or possibly
face a tax penalty and new taxes and penalties on employers that don’t provide employees with
specific types of health coverage. The ACA also mandates the creation of health insurance
exchanges in every state, through which individuals and small business owners can
purchase qualified coverage.
The ACA allows three options to administer a
health insurance exchange: states can run the exchange themselves, choose not to run it and
leave it to the federal government, or leave it to
the federal government while retaining the right to regulate health insurance and control eligibility
decisions for their Medicaid programs. On November 16, 2012, Governor Kasich notified the
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that Ohio will not administer an exchange but will
retain regulatory control over health insurance
plans offered through a federally-operated exchange as well as retain the authority to
determine Medicaid eligibility. http://www.healthtransformation.ohio.gov/FederalHeal
thInsuranceExchange.aspx
NAMI Stark County Newsletter 4
Book Review A Mind Apart: Travels in a Neurodiverse World
Susanne Antonetta, 2005
Susanne Antonetta’s husband tells her to
everybody that this is a bipolar book, and it is and
more. Antonetta’s soaring prose transcends her
ramble on neuro-diversity and atypicality among
the human species as she sees it in twenty-first
century.
She is a good writer. A previous book by her won
the NY Times Notable Book Award and the
American Book Award and she co-authored a
book on creative non-fiction writing. We know we
are in good hands with her flight of whimsy and
speculation buttressed by theories drawn from at
least a dozen sound sources.
She discusses her friends who as neuro-diverse as
her own bipolarity. Neuro-diversity is similar to
ethnic diversity: a term coming however from the
subculture of those with Asperger’s syndrome.
Dawn lives with Asperger’s, N’villi with multiple
personality disorder and Thor with a bit of
compulsiveness. She also covers a trial of a
teenager with ADHD who committed a heinous
murder, surely another neuro-atypical. All these
people cause her to conjure up speculation of a
world in the future adapted to pollution,
technology, overcrowding and dwindling world
resources leading to an increase of bipolar illness,
autism, atypical disorders as defense mechanisms.
Antonetta also gives us a look at what bipolar
disorder has meant in her own life quoting her
diaries and reminiscing about excesses before
medication. She also looks at the historical
perspective when Victorian gentleman and ladies
gawked at the sights of Bedlam and the medieval
“Ships of Fools” transported the mentally ill to
sites like the shrine of St. Dymphna in Gheel,
Belgium.
This book cannot be dismissed simply on the
grounds that it dwells on lunacy because Susanne
Antonetta writes so well. I found myself again
and again captured by a phrase, won over by an
argument, (She backs her points with several
books that are starting points in themselves for
reading.) or just entertained by the imagery and
the story she tells. It is a bipolar book and in
thereby lies its charm.
--Mike Rembert
Plan to Research & Improve Efficacy of
Psychotropic Medications Prescribed to
Children Medicaid has established a $1 Million, three year
project in collaboration with an ODMH private
collaborator named Best Evidence Advancing
Child health in Ohio Now! (BEACON) group to
research the issue of children in the Medicaid
system that are being prescribed psychotropic
medications. The three year plan begins with an
18 month campaign to help provide sufficient
resources, technology and leadership to help
clinicians more clearly understand the issues
faced by the children who are often prescribed
psychotropic medications. This will be done by
connecting faculty, pediatric psychiatrists at
Ohio’s children hospitals, as well as family
physicians resources/guidelines that have been
created by child and adolescent
psychiatrists. The BEACON plan gives a 24-7
toll-free phone number for child and adolescent
psychiatry decision support, education and triage
services to help with the diagnoses and treatment
process of the child for individuals to use. The
goal of the effort is to increase the competency of
workers in child welfare, courts, schools and the
mental health systems that frequently interact
with youth that have significant challenges in
their lives.
--Up to the Minute September 3, 2012
CSG Releases Report Showing a Reduction in
Ohio’s Recidivism Rates Yesterday, the Council of State Governments
(CSG) Justice Center's National Reentry
Resource Center (NRRC) released a policy brief
highlighting several states reporting reductions in
recidivism rates. The report profiles seven states,
including Ohio, and shows declines in their
three-year recidivism rates based on data
tracking individuals released from prison from
2005-2007. Texas and Ohio reported a reduction
of 11 percent, while the Kansas rate fell by 15
percent and Michigan's rate dropped by 18
percent. The report includes data through 2010
(and in some cases, through 2011), and provides
the most recent multi-state information available
on recidivism.
---Up to the Minute September 3, 2012
NAMI Stark County Newsletter 5
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
QUARTERLY MEMBERSHIP MEETING
MHRSB CONFERENCE ROOM DECEMBER 11, 2012, 7:00 PM
DR EMMANUEL NWAJEI PSYCHIATRIST AND JEFF
SIMS, CEO OF HEARTLAND WILL DISCUSS PSYCH
MEDS
VOLUNTEER RECOGNITION & BUSINESS
MEETING
March 12, 2013
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
HEARTLAND BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE
DECEMBER 14, 2012, 10:00 AM
Heartland Discharge Bags
COMMUNITY EVENTS
SOLACE OF Stark County
Perry Sippo Lake SCDL
5710 12TH ST Canton OH 44708
Monday, December 17 6:30 TO 8:00 PM
S.O.S. Candlelight Ceremony
CHILD AND ADOLESCENT BEHAVIORAL HEALTH
BOOKSIDE COUNTRY CLUB
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2013 6:00 PM
Let Your Lights Shine - Las Vegas Light
J R Coleman Learning Center Krassas Event Center 251 25TH ST NW Canton OH Women in History Luncheon Thursday, March 14, 2013
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NAMI Stark County Newsletter 6
WRAPAROUND 101--What is
Wraparound?
Wraparound is an intensive, holistic method of engaging with individuals with complex needs (most typically children, youth, and their families) so that they can live in their homes and communities and realize their hopes and dreams. The wraparound process helps to make sure children and youth grow up in their homes and communities. It is a planning process that brings people together from different parts of the family’s life. The wraparound process aims to achieve positive outcomes by providing a structured, creative and individualized team planning process that results in plans that are effective and relevant to the child and the family. Wraparound plans are holistic and designed to meet the identified needs of the child, the family and the siblings as well as address a range of life areas. Wraparound plans aim to develop problem-solving and coping skills with an emphasis on integrating the youth and the family into the community while building the social support network.
Wraparound is a strengths-based, highly
individualized planning process aimed at helping
clients put together a team in order to achieve
important outcomes and meet their complex needs
(both in and out of formal human services systems).
This process strives to help the client remain in his/her
home and community, whenever possible.--Eastern
Michigan University Ohio’s community behavioral health system supports the health of Ohio families by providing a full continuum of care, including recovery supports and wraparound services. For some individuals, Medicaid will cover the cost of the treatment and medications and local Alcohol, Drug Addiction and Mental Health (ADAMH) Boards provide the non-Medicaid services and supports, including wraparound, necessary for an individual to recover. Through the investment in these non-Medicaid supports that complement the Medicaid services, the State and communities can be assured that individuals are receiving the help they need in order to achieve recovery. --Ohio Assoc. of County Behavioral Health Authorities PDF Excerpted
Staff
Jane James: Executive Director
330-455-NAMI [6264] – Business Office
jjames@namistarkcounty.org
Kay Silverwood: Family Involvement
Program Director
330-455-NAMI [6264] – Business Office
ksilverwood@namistarkcounty.org
Mike Rembert, Newsletter editor
Executive Committee Members
Dr. Tamara Daily: President
Jen Powell Campbell: First Vice
President
Shannon Ortiz: Second Vice President
Diane Mang: Secretary
Charles Cavender: Treasurer
Perri Anne Concialdi
Linda Cook
Bart Fredrick
Keane Toney
Elaine Reolfi
Karen McCroskey
Bernard McLeroy
Kristin Hackenbracht
NAMI Stark County Family Involvement Program
Patient Care/Family Involvement
Reconnect patient with family members or natural supports
Family members or natural supports involved with Patient Intake Process
Family members or natural supports involved with Patient Treatment Team Meetings
Family members or natural supports involved with Patient Discharge Planning
Family members or natural supports involved with Patient ongoing Outpatient Treatment Team
Family members, natural supports and Patients Self Care, Coping Skills and Communication Skills
Family members, natural supports and Patients utilize NAMI Stark County Education Programs, Support Groups and Advocacy
NAMI Stark County Newsletter 8
Support Groups Canton Open Support Group Sunday Evenings @ 7 pm Family Members or Consumers
St. Michael’s Catholic Church 3430 St Michael Dr. NW Canton, OH 44718 (corner of Whipple & Fulton) Lower level parking lot: Look for sign on door Heartland Visitor Orientation/Support Group Thursday Evenings @ 6:30 pm Family Members or Friends Only
Heartland Behavioral Healthcare 3000 Erie St. South, Massillon, OH 44646 FaithNet Program Discuss Mental Health from Biblical Perspective
Sundays, 5:30pm @ Wendy’s on 3320 Whipple Ave. NW, Canton OH 44718 Refuge of Hope Monday Evening @ 6:00 pm Consumers
405 Third Street, NE Canton, Ohio 44702 Alliance Open Support Group 1st & 3rd Thursday Evenings @ 7 pm Family Members or Consumers
Science Hill Community Church 12316 Beeson St. NE, Alliance, Oh 44601 NAMI Connection Tuesday Evenings @ 6 pm Adults with Mental Illness Only
McKinley Centre Bldg (Old McKinley High School) 800 Market Ave. North, 1st Floor, Canton, OH 44702 N Canton Family Support Group 2nd & 4th Wednesday Evenings @ 6:30p Family Members Only. Walsh University Chapel Bldg; lower level 2020 E Maple St North Canton, Oh 44720 Post Peer to Peer Program Recovery Groups For Graduates of Peer to Peer Education Program
The Support groups below are for current psychiatric In-patients and /or their loved ones: Monday Evenings @ 6pm Tuesday Evenings @ 6:30pm Aultman Hospital Mercy Medical Center
Psychiatric Unit, 6th Floor Psychiatric Unit, 5th Floor
FREE EDUCATION Programs
PRE-REGISTRATION IS NEEDED by calling for our FREE NAMI Educational Programs. FOR CANCELLATION/INCLEMENT WEATHER: VIEW WKYC TV’S I-ALERT
12-week course is for family members and friends of adults with serious mental illness. It is taught by trained NAMI family members.
Louisville, Tuesdays, Starting January 8th, 6:30pm to 9:00pm, Church of Christ Massillon, Saturdays, Starting January 12th, 9:00am to 11:30am, Heartland Behavioral Healthcare Canton, Thursdays, Starting April 18, 6:30pm to 9:00pm, TBA Canton, Mondays, Starting September 9, 6:30pm to 9:00pm, TBA Alliance, Mondays, Starting September 9, 6:30pm to 9:00pm, Science Hill Community Church
10-week course is for adults who have been diagnosed with a mental illness. Canton, Thursdays, Starting January 10, 6-8p, TBA Alliance, Mondays, Starting March 11 10, 6-8p, Science Hill Community Church Canton, Wednesdays, Starting May 29, 6-8p, TBA Canton, Thursdays, Starting August 15, 6-8p, TBA Canton, Mondays, Starting October 14, 6-8p, TBA
6 week course is for parents of children with emotional/mental/neurobiological disorders.
Canton, Wednesdays, Stating February 27th, 6-8p, Early Childhood Resource Center Canton, Wednesdays, Stating April 17th, 6-8p, Early Childhood Resource Center Canton, Wednesdays, Stating September 25th, 6-8p, Early Childhood Resource Center
Early Childhood Resource Center, 1718 Cleveland Ave. NW Canton, Oh 44703
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