Fwd: FW: Please Circulate: Making a Difference in New Mexico's Behavioral Health System: A Call to Action

[Leigh Caswell]

FYI,

Leigh

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From: Caswell, Leigh A. <lcas...@phs.org>
Date: Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 5:14 PM
Subject: FW: Please Circulate: Making a Difference in New Mexico's Behavioral Health System: A Call to Action
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From: Cathleen Willging [CWil...@PIRE.org]
Sent: Monday, December 02, 2013 5:08 PM
To: Cathleen Willging
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

Nancy Jo Archer
Hogares, Inc.

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

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 17, 2014!

Organized by the Southwest Region – Scholars Strategy Network [Big Wave:Users:timtufts:Desktop:SSNLogoCorrectRGB.jpg]
http://www.scholarsstrategynetwork.org and the National Association of Social Workers – New Mexico

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