Planned Living Assistance Network of North Texas Nonprofit Organization for Lifetime Recovery Support for People with Mental Illness   7th Annual Dinner and Silent Auction
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2011  at 6 pm

Renaissance Hotel   900 East Lookout   Richardson TX 75082

Tickets $75 per person  ~    Business casual attire

Guest speaker Julie Hersh, author of Struck by Living and advocate for mental health

For more information on February 19 Dinner:  http://planofntx.com/oyh.php
For more information on PLAN: http://www.planofntx.com/about_plan.php

POSTSCRIPT:  This well-organized and meaningful Metro Dallas Homeless Alliance event took place on a rainy cold evening.  With good training and professional and personable police officers paving the way for speaking with any homeless persons who were interested in contributing to the survey, this experience is highly recommended.  Please consider it for yourselves next year.  Welcoming and educating this rookie were veterans Joel Feiner MD (psychiatrist advocate and community mental health guru/ leader),  Janie Metzinger (MHA); Mike Katz (NTBHA Consumer/Family Council);Valencia Hooper, John Dornheim, and Sherry Cusumano (NAMI Dallas and Collin County); Sr Cpl Herb Cotner of DPD.   Officers Isaac and Celeste of Northeast and LPC David Mora (presently a City of Dallas caseworker) were wonderfully easy and respectful and humane as we visited with those homeless persons who felt comfortable speaking with us.  My sense:  we all realized we are much more alike than different and but for the grace of…Fortunately riding through my own neighborhood, I learned the haunts and strategies and extreme distress of the unsheltered who were NOT in the Bridge and what they believed would help.    NCmd

2010 Homeless Count and Census:  volunteers needed, on-site training.
ALTERNATIVE TO NTSPP DINNER WHICH HAS BEEN CANCELLED

Highly recommended by Carolyn Rekedres MD who has participated…

It is once again time to conduct the Metro Dallas Homeless Alliance (MDHA) annual homeless count and census. The census is conducted each year in the last week of January so that Dallas and Collin Counties can collect information on homeless residents.

With MDHA’s renewed commitment to end Chronic Homelessness by 2014 and the opening of the Bridge Homeless Assistance Center in May of 2008, the Homeless Count and Census allows us to monitor our progress in achieving this goal. The Census helps us to complete a needs assessment for the community and encourage the development of programs to fill identified gaps. The information compiled during the census is also used by several interested groups, including non-profit organizations, faith-based groups, media outlets and various departments in Federal, State and local government.

DATE: Thursday, January 28, 2010
TIME: 6:00 P.M. – 12:00 A.M.  (subject to slight changes if needed, most volunteers are able to leave by 10:30 p.m.)
LOCATION: Dallas City Hall – 1500 Marilla, L1 F North Auditorium  Park in City Hall underground parking (entrance traveling east on Young Street)  Enter through the GREEN door

HOW TO HELP: Volunteers are needed for both the indoor and outdoor census. Volunteers must be at least 18 years of age.  Remember to wear comfortable shoes, bring a flashlight, writing pen and clipboard.

Indoor Volunteer Team Member: Conducts the Homeless survey in an indoor location, such as an Emergency Shelter or Transitional Housing facility. Law enforcement professionals are not assigned to these teams, but a staff contact will be provided for teams who visit these locations and agency staff will be present.

Outdoor Volunteer Team Member: Conducts the survey outdoors in teams of two or three. Law enforcement personnel are assigned to each team for safety reasons.

Training:   Training on how to conduct the census will be provided for volunteers on the night of the census. Volunteers will sign-in from 6:00 – 6:30, and should arrive no later than 6:15 P.M. in order to receive all of the information presented.

Contact Information:  Thank you for your interest! In order to volunteer for the Homeless census or to receive more Information, please contact Metro Dallas Homeless Alliance:

Phone: 214-670.1112

E-mail: PMaroney@MDHADallas.org

Please click here for more information about the Memorial and Honor Fund.  This fund is a win-win-win-win way to honor a colleague or the memory of a colleague, encourage or comfort a family, enable a resident or fellow to have a lovely and informative evening out, and keep your local chapter financially responsible and able to serve you and the community!  Please consider it today.

The NTSPP public service website MHAAR www.mhaar.org seeks to list all legitimate Mental Health and Addiction Resources in our 12-county area.

NTSPP is delighted and honored to receive a donation of $2,000 to support this pilot project from our sister organization in this community, Dallas Area Women Psychiatrists (DAWP).    DAWP Co-Presidents Jane Miles MD and Manju Goyal MD and Treasurer Tamella Trulson MD recently sent this outstanding contribution for MHAAR after a vote by the DAWP membership.  Many thanks from NTSPP! 

NB:  DAWP events are posted monthly on www.ntspp.org in the post section as well as in the DAWP box heading above.

Thanks to psychiatrists APA Distinguished Life Fellow Larry Tripp MD, Distinguished Fellow Madeline Harford MD and General Member Gretchen Megowen MD for sponsoring residents through their contributions to NTSPP recently in addition to being dues-paid chapter members of NTSPP in good standing.    NTSPP chapter dues also support the public service website www.mhaar.org. 

NTSPP and the Dallas Psychoanalytic Center will each sponsor 4 dinners for UTSWMC psychiatry members in training at the next dinner program on Thursday, March 26 (information in separate post).

Sponsorship of residents/fellows at NTSPP dinners is made possible through your contribution to the NTSPP Memorial & Honor Fund.  To honor or remember an area psychiatrist while sponsoring a dinner for a UTSWMC psychiatry resident or fellow, please consider the NTSPP Memorial and Honor Fund  (see the box above for more details).

We have posted at http://ntspp.org/form/ the new set of five forms that break up the content of the one large form so the files load faster and they can be filled out in stages.  The files make it easier to process the data as they are mostly sets of checkboxes to select features of each facility.

The Forms: 

MHAAR1Main.pdf  is the main content form where you include your contact information.  This form is the most important form.
MHAAR2Type.pdf will ask you about the Type of your facility.
MHAAR3other.pdf will ask you about the Age and Gender of Person’s seen, the Special Populations seen, the Paid Staff and Degrees, the Location of the Paid Staff and background checks and the Volunteers with their background checks.
MHAAR4services.pdf will ask you about the Services.
MHAAR5diagnosis.pdf will ask you about the Diagnosis.

Also included are instructions with a photograph of how to save the PDF files.

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).

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).

 *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).

NTSPP Psychiatrists Bagya Aramugham MD, Catherine Fontaine MD, and Madeline Harford MD are graciously sponsoring 3 Silver Table luncheon seats at the 40th Anniversary Metrocare Services Fundraising Luncheon Monday September 15 for  UTSWMC Psychiatry Residents/Fellows or Medical Students interested in Psychiatry.   (For last-minute ticket information contact Katie.Goodell@metrocareservices.org.) 

Many thanks to these MDs interested in public mental health and trainees.  Interested residents, fellows, or medical students, please contact Dr.  Adam Brenner, a member of the NTSPP Executive Council (EC) who will also be seated at the NTSPP table. 

Rounding out the table are psychiatrists  Andrew Brylowski MD, Catherin Roberts MD (EC), Ed Nace MD (EC), and Nicole Cooper MD (EC).  Psychiatrist Carol North MD (EC) will attend and sit at the Metrocare Board Table.

NTSPP is a strong supporter of the fine work of Metrocare Services, with particular appreciation for psychiatrists CEO James Baker MD and Medical Director Greg Graves MD and their dedicated team of psychiatrists.