Fwd: Please Circulate: Making a Difference in New Mexico's Behavioral Health System: A Call to Action
Leigh Caswell
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From: Cathleen Willging <CWil...@PIRE.org>
Date: January 6, 2014 at 3:14:01 PM MST
To: Cathleen Willging <CWil...@PIRE.org>
Subject: Please Circulate: Making a Difference in New Mexico's Behavioral Health System: A Call to Action
Making a Difference in New Mexico’s
Behavioral Health System:
A Call to Action
In June 2013, state officials in New Mexico cited undisclosed results of an audit to accuse 15 non-profit agencies that provide behavioral health care services to more than 88,000 people of “fraud” and “corruption.” These officials then halted Medicaid payments to the agencies and presented their leadership with two options: (1) allow companies from nearby Arizona to “take over” their internal operations; or (2) face closure. Please join us for an important roundtable discussion in which state legislators, service users and providers, and advocates will consider the impacts of this unprecedented state intervention, and strategies for bolstering a fragile behavioral healthcare system. Together, we will focus on how we can come together to create an effective behavioral healthcare system in New Mexico.
Roundtable Participants
Senator Jerry Ortiz y Pino
New Mexico Legislature
Patsy Romero
Easter Seals El Mirador
Gay Finlayson
Behavioral Health Advocate
Susy K. Ashcroft
Behavioral Health Advocate
Patrick Tyrrell
National Association of Social Workers-New Mexico
Nancy Koenigsberg
Disability Rights New Mexico
Kimmie Jordan
National Alliance on Mental Illness
Session Moderators
Judith Barnstone
New Mexico Highlands University
Cathleen Willging
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation
Tuesday, January 14, 2014 between 6:30 PM and 8:30 PM
Refreshments will be served!!!
UNM Continuing Ed. Conference Center
1634 University Blvd. NE - Room C, Albuquerque, NM
Save the Date: This is the first of a two-part discussion focused on behavioral healthcare to take place before and after the upcoming legislative session. The second event will occur on March 18, 2014!
Organized by the Southwest Region – Scholars Strategy Network
