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).

Present Schedule:     Flexible, Experience-driven

Territory:     Dallas, Collin, Cooke, Denton, Ellis, Fannin, Grayson, Hunt, Kaufman,     Montague, Navarro, and Rockwall Counties

Phase 1:   Prototype for licensed/approved hospitals, institutions, organizations, treatment centers, agencies, etc.  August 13 to October 6, 2008

Purposes:     Data-gathering. Learning from experience of mental health professional                     community and DPD before public launch (working out the bugs)

Action plan:          

August 13:     Distribute revised version of category list for form to key persons by e-mail for                 input,     including NTBHA Board and staff, MHA, VO, advocates 

August 15:     Assimilate suggestions. Redistribute new category list to same for input on                 Friday morning August 15

August 16:     Discuss at NTSPP EC meeting

August 18:     Distribute approved consensus pilot form by e-mail to all known institutions,                 agencies, advocates, etc.

August 18 ff:     NTSPP EC reviews data on forms, communicates about any questions by e-mail.             (NTSPPresource@gmail.com), consults with community prn

        NTSPP webmaster James Pepper checks licensing information (if any) and when                 verified inputs to website

Sept 1:     Formal request to mental health professional community                             with controlled DPD use at discretion of Sr. Crpl Herb Cotner for                     use of prototype with request for input (no public use)

Sept 1-30:     Mental health community and DPD give input on experience to NTSPP

October 1-6: Assimilate and restructure for launch date. Publicity information out.

Phase 2:     Launch for use by public October 8 for Mental Illness Awareness Week

Phase 3:    Subjecting: Learning from experience     October 8 to January 2009

Phase 4:     Prototype for individual providers      January 2009. Phase 1 process.

NTSPP EXECUTIVE COUNCIL : Nicole Cooper MD (President), Ed Nace MD (Vice-President), Rege Stewart MD (Treasurer), Adam Brenner MD, John Debus MD, Madeline Harford MD, Alan Koenigsberg MD, Phil Korenman MD, Carol North MD, Dan Pearson III MD, and Catherin Roberts MD

CHAPTER OFFICE : NTSPPchapter@gmail.com (preferred communication) www.ntspp.org

Chase Building 8111 Preston Rd Ste 811 Dallas TX 75225.6316 Confidential Fax 214.368.8822

ORGANIZATION: The North Texas Society of Psychiatric Physicians (NTSPP) is the local chapter of the Texas Society of Psychiatric Physicians (TSPP), the district branch of the American Psychiatric Association APA). TSPP: TSPPofc@aol.com www.txpsych.org APA: www.psych.org