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NTSPP Advocacy Bulletin January 2011: Assisted Outpatient Commitment: Getting Beyond the Barriers to Appropriate Care ~ Considering a Solution to a Serious Problem Continue reading Assisted Outpatient Commitment ~ NTSPP Advocacy Bulletin 2011 January  NTSPP Advocacy Bulletin December, 2010: CAN WE AFFORD NOT TO SUPPORT MENTAL HEALTH INTERVENTIONS IN OUR CORRECTIONS SYSTEM? Continue reading Mental Health Interventions in Our Corrections System ~ NTSPP Advocacy Bulletin December 2010
From NAMI Collin County: There will be a Town Hall Meeting for the North Texas Behavioral Health Authority (NTBHA) to gather information and input on the Public Sector Behavioral Health program (NorthSTAR) on Tuesday, March 9, from 6 to 8 PM at Custer Road Methodist Church. The church is located on the west side of Custer Road north of Spring Creek and south of Legacy. We hope to see you all there! Sharon DeBlanc
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC – Regarding the Public Mental Health System in Dallas County (NorthSTAR) DALLAS COUNTY Behavioral Health System Redesign Task Force Thursday, March 25, 2010 9:30 a.m. Dallas County Health & Human Services Building Hickman Conference Room (Room 627) Commissioner John Wiley Price, Chair and Commissioner Maurine Dickey, Vice-Chair Call to Order – 9:30 a.m. Legislative Advocacy Plan Next Meeting Date: April 22, 2010 Adjournment President’s Column from the Winter 2010 NTSPP Newsletter* The city of Seattle saved $4 million in hospital, jail and other public services after 95 homeless people moved into one housing project. These 95 people’s visits to hospitals and jails before had cost tax-payers nearly $8.2 million. Other facts concerning the wisdom of providing permanent supportive housing for the chronically homeless can be found in Kim Horner’s Dallas Morning News article of Sunday December 13, 2009. This article focuses on Dallas’s empty Plaza Hotel which a developer has been attempting to make available for permanent supportive housing. The state rejected this developer’s application for tax credits in March 2009, most likely because of neighborhood opposition. As a result, the twelve-story Plaza building remains empty and thousands of people in Dallas remain on the streets or in jail or emergency rooms, incurring costs of tens of millions of dollars, not to mention the human misery. Continue reading NTSPP President Ed Nace MD on Mental Health Services in North Texas |
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