Mental Health And Addiction Resources Website www.mhaar.org

A Public Service Website for Our Twelve Texas Counties

Dear Mental Health Advocate/ Friend/Service Provider:

Please help us create www.mhaar.org during October, Mental Illness Awareness Week and Month.
www.mhaar.org is designed to be a user-friendly website for all. It is accessible to the blind and translatable into 20 world languages. We hope that this pilot project* will expand to the state and nation.

Do you have an interest in, advocate for, or provide funding or services for persons or family members of persons with mental health, mental illness, psychiatric disorders, addictions, emotional problems, behavioral and conduct disorders, substance abuse/chemical dependency in our 12 counties?

Are you a legitimate organization or entity or large group in any of the categories below? Individual practitioners and private practice groups will be added in 2009.

If a license or accreditation is required, do you have it?

Our thanks,

The North Texas Society of Psychiatric Physicians Executive Council
MHAARntspp@gmail.com www.ntspp.org

CATEGORIES for program, group, facility or organizational listing on www.mhaar.org in 2008:

LEGAL: Correctional,  County, Campus Police,  Child Protective Services, Court Diversion, Court-Ordered, Criminal,  Criminal Justice,  Detention,  Diversion Court,  Forensic,  Jail,  Jail Diversion,  Jail Ministry,  Jail Program,  Jail Service,  Law Firm,  Legal,  Legal Aid,  Legal Assistance,  Mental Illness Court,  Police Department,  Police Community Program,  Police Training,  Prison,  Prison Ministry,  Prison Program,  Prison Service,  Probation Department,  Probation Department Program,  Prostitute Diversion Initiative, Sheriff’s Department,  Sheriff’s Department Program

TREATMENT FACILITIES (and others where mental health services available): ER,  Emergency Room,  Psychiatry Emergency Room,  Clinic,  Community Mental Health Clinic,  Hospital,  Hospice,  Inpatient,  Intensive Outpatient, Jail,  Medical Center,  Mental Hospital,  Mental Retardation Facility,  Military,  Opioid Treatment,  Outpatient Clinic,  Outpatient Treatment,  Pain Clinic,  Partial Hospitalization,  Prison,  Psychiatric Day Treatment,  Psychiatric Inpatient,  Psychiatric Rehabilitation,  Psychiatric Partial Hospitalization,  Psychiatric Residential,  Psychiatric Outpatient,  Psychiatric Hospital,  Psychiatric Unit,  Psychotherapy Organization,  Psychosocial Rehabilitation,  Residential Treatment Program,  School,  Sheriff’s Department,  Methadone Clinic,  Partial Hospitalization,  Prison,  Probation Department,  Sleep Disorders Center,  Sleep Disorders Program,  State Hospital,  State Mental Hospital,  Student Mental Health,  Supported Outpatient,  Treatment Center,  University Student Mental Health,  Veteran’s Facility

EDUCATIONAL: Academic Center,  Campus Police,  College,  College Program,  School,  School Program,  Student Mental Health,  University University Mental Health,  Educational Services,  Graduate School,  Graduate Program,  Medical Center,  Medical School

VETERANS/MILITARY: Veterans Program,  Veterans Facility,  Military

RESEARCH: Clinical Research,  Clinical Trial,  Research,  Research Facility,  Research Program

SUBSTANCE-RELATED: Aftercare,  Alcohol Recovery,  Alcohol Treatment Center,  Buprenorphine Clinic,  Detoxification,  Drug Rehabilitation,  Drug Recovery,  Drug Treatment Center,  Methadone Clinic,  Opioid Treatment

SERVICE FACILITY FOR: Adoption,  Home Services,    Family Counseling,  Home Visits,  Laboratory Testing,  Nursing,    Pain Clinic,  Patient Assistance Program,  Pharmacy,  Psychosocial Rehabilitation,  Sleep Laboratory,  Testing Center,  Training Center,  Treatment Center,  Visiting Nurses

LIVING SITUATIONS: Boarding Home,  Adoption,  Assisted Living,  Foster Care,  Group Home,  Half-way House,  Nursing Home,  Orphanage, Residential Living,  Shelter All,  Shelter Women, Shelter Women and Children,  Shelter Homeless,  Shelter Men,  Shelter Children,  Transitional Housing

ORGANIZATIONS: Behavioral Health Organization,  Community Council,  Corporation,  Corporate Giving/Grants,  Corporate Sponsor,  County,  County Health Services,  Federal,  Federal Health Services,  Governmental Agency,  Insurance Company,  Oversight Agency/Board,  Social Service Agency,  State Health Services

FAITH-BASED FACILITIES & PROGRAMS: Chaplain,  Chaplain Program,  Church,  Church Program,  Faith-Based, Faith-Based Clinic,  Faith-Based Program, Hospital Chaplain,  Jail Ministry,  Mosque,  Pastoral Care,  Prison Ministry,  Synagogue

PUBLIC MENTAL HEALTH: Charity Clinic,  Charity Organization,  Clubhouse,  Community Mental Health Center,  Community Psychiatry,  Public Mental Health Entity,  Public Mental Health Provider,  Public Mental Health Program

ADVOCACY: Advocacy Organization for Psychiatric or Mental Health or Addiction Issues,  Fundraising Organization,  Grant Foundation for Psychiatric or Mental Health or Addiction Issues,  Professional Organization Or Society, Volunteer Organization

SUPPORT GROUPS: Support Groups, Support Organizations For Patients or Clients or Consumers or Families

CRISIS MENTAL HEALTH: ACT Team,  Assertive Community Treatment,  ER,  Emergency Room,  Psychiatric Emergency Room, Psychiatric  23-hour Observation,  Mobile Crisis Services,  Hotline or Crisis Lines

*The NTSPP Executive Council is indebted to the Texas Foundation for Psychiatric Education & Research for a grant to support advertising of this pilot project website. We are also grateful to Bob Stewart LCSW of Project Transform, Janie Metzinger of Mental Health America, Sr. Cpl Herb Cotner of the Dallas Police Department, Sherry Cusumano of NAMI Collin County, Sharon DeBlanc of Value Options, Rob Garrett MD of NTSPP, and webmaster James Pepper for their wonderful assistance with this project.

*The North Texas Society of Psychiatric Physicians (www.ntspp.org) is the local chapter of The Texas Society of Psychiatric Physicians (http://www.txpsych.org/), which is the district branch of The American Psychiatric Association (www.psych.org).

Mental Illness Awareness Week in Fort Worth

Saturday, October 11^th 2:00 – 3:30 pm  Fort Worth Botanic Gardens Lecture Hall

 “Mental Health Issues and Legislative Aspects” 

Speakers: Dan Barrett and Mark Shelton, District 97 Candidates

Dr. Gary Etter (TSPP), Dr. Joe Burkett (MHMR), and Dr. Carol Nati (JPS)

 Sponsored by the Tarrant Chapter of the Texas Society of Psychiatric Physicians

See www.ntspp.org for all North Texas MIAW activities. 

Listings for the NTSPP public service pilot project Mental Health And Addiction Resources website www.mhaar.org  are solicited beginning in MIAW and continuing through the month of October.  Launch on November 1, 2008.

 *The NTSPP Executive Council is indebted to the Texas Foundation for Psychiatric Education & Research for a grant to support advertising of this pilot project website.   We are also grateful to Bob Stewart LCSW of Project Transform, Janie Metzinger of Mental Health America, Sr. Cpl Herb Cotner of the Dallas Police Department, Sherry Cusumano of NAMI Collin County, Sharon DeBlanc of Value Options, Rob Garrett MD of NTSPP, and webmaster James Pepper for their wonderful assistance with this project.

*The North Texas Society of Psychiatric Physicians (www.ntspp.org) is the local chapter of The Texas Society of Psychiatric Physicians (www.txpsych.org), which is the district branch of The American Psychiatric Association (www.psych.org).

NAMI Southern Sector Dallas
Town Hall Meeting during Mental Illness Awareness Week 2008

Thursday October 9, 2008               2:00 P.M. – 3:30 P.M  
Southern Bible Institute                  7200 South Hampton Road*   Dallas, TX 75232
 

NAMI Southern Sector Dallas has scheduled this Town Hall Meeting to hear from you. Come prepared to discuss concerns you and your family have regarding the disparity of mental health and substance abuse service in the southern sector of Dallas (south of the Trinity River & Interstate I20). Please join staff representatives from the offices of  State Sen. Bob Deuell and State Sen. Royce West  and other elected officials and let your voice be heard. Contact NAMI Southern Sector Dallas President Effie Clewis at 972-401-3834 for further information.

*The cross street is Camp Wisdom Road.

The Tuesday night October 7 Candlelight Interfaith Service of NAMI (National Alliance for the Mentally Ill) will be held at 7 pm at Holy Trinity Catholic Church on Oaklawn at Blackburn, just north of Lemmon Avenue.  The service features prayers and peoples from different faith traditions in an atmosphere of compassion and hope.  Renowned psychiatrist, substance abuse expert, and patient advocate Ed Nace MD is the key speaker and a reception follows  in Trinity Hall at 8 pm.  Past speakers have included psychiatrists Tim Wolff MD and Joel Feiner MD. 

Dr. Nace is in private practice, serves as medical director of Turtle Creek Manor ( a substance abuse rehabilitation program), chairs a Project Transform committee working to use faith-based initiatives to assist the public mental health system, is Past President and Current Vice President of the North Texas Society of Psychiatric Physicians, testifies as a forensic expert witness,  and teaches seminary students at SMU. 

NAMI-Collin County is pleased to present the 2008 MIAW Conference. It is free for consumers and caregivers who are NAMICCO members and $5.00 for all other consumers and family members. The cost for nursing and mental health professionals is $30.00 in advance and $40.00 at the door. Students pay $15.00. Some scholarships are available. A total of 6 hours (.6CEUs) will be offered for LMSW,  LPC, LMFT, LCDC and Ph.D. You can register by sending your payment to: NAMICCO, P.O. Box 867264, Plano, Texas 75086-7264 or by email to john.dornheim@hcahealthcare.com. For more information cantact John Dornheim at 972-701-3607 or 214-335-8334. A contiental breakfast and lunch will be served to all attendees.   The conference will be at the Collin County Community College Conference Center, Spring Creek Campus, 2800 East Spring Creek in Plano Texas.    Registration is at 7:45 AM and the conference ends at 4:30 PM on Friday October 3,2008.    If you want to register for the conference please call John Dornheim at the number listed above.

The Speakers

Fred Frese, Ph.D.

Fred is a psychologist who has specialized in the area of schizophrenia for more that 30 years. He was diagnosed with the condition when he was 26, and has worked tirelessly as a practitioner and a legendary advocate for consumers and their families.

Penny Frese, Ph.D.

Penny is active in the mental health movement, presenting throughout the United States and Canada. She, her husband, Fred, and their family have been featured on national television. Penny is the producer of an award-winning video on children’s depression, called Claire’s Story.

Robert Gonzales, M.D.

Dr. Gonzales is a professor of psychiatry and researcher with the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. He is called the ‘resident expert’ on Bipolar Disorder.

David Morris, Ph.D.

Dr. Morris the newly appointed Professor of psychiatry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, working as a co-investigator/site project director for a large multi-center RO1 studying the effect of augmenting medication with psychotherapy for the treatment of unipolar depression in patients not achieving a satisfactory response to antidepressant monotherapy.

Joe Powell, LCDC, CAS

Joe is the Executive Director of the APAA (Association of Persons Afflicted by Addiction). Joe and his two older brothers made a living for the family by tap dancing in New York City. He also learned to medicate with alcohol and drugs. He has more than 20 years of long-term recovery and treating individuals suffering from addictions with co-occurring mental illness and substance use problems in Dallas.

Aaron B. Jacobs, M.Ed, NCC, LPC

Aaron is a college professor, lecturer, owner and director of Preston Hollow Psychotherapy Group, and a Psychiatric Treatment Manager for several Green Oaks Hospital Programs. He has been featured several times on “Dr Phil” as the “Biofeedback Therapist” treating ADD/ADHD, depression, addiction and stress.

Senior Corporal Herbert Cotner

Herb is the lead instructor and Mental Illness liaison for the Dallas Police Department. He has created and coordinates the mental health CIT (Crisis Intervention Training) for DPD. He is also a family member of someone with a mental illness, and true advocate for those with mental illness.