Mental Health Forum
Join our livestreaming video and chat noon to 1:30 p.m. Tuesday with Leon Evans, president and CEO of the Center for Healthcare Services in San Antonio, Texas, as he speaks at the Women's Fund Forum on Mental Health, "From One Community to Another: What San Antonio is Learning from New Approaches to Mental Illness." Join the conversation, posting your comments, observations and questions by using the comment box in this post after entering a display name or on Twitter using #MHLessons. Read the Record Searchlight's advanced coverage here: http://bit.ly/1KUhl7V
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Shelter, Haven for Hope, is across from San Antonio sobering center. Offers rehab and other life improvement programs. #MHLessonsby Carole Ferguson via twitter 9/22/2015 7:49:03 PM -
Restoration Center has two dorms on Haven for Hope campus, which is drug and alcohol free. #MHLessonsby Carole Ferguson via twitter 9/22/2015 7:49:38 PM
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If in detox and rehab long enough for brain chemistry to straighten out, people start to ask what have they done to their life. #MHLessonsby Carole Ferguson via twitter 9/22/2015 7:50:36 PM
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Staff at sobering center are in recovery themselves, so they treat clients with compassion, understanding and respect. -
60 to 70 percent of people who go thru program are still clean, sober a year later. Need to provide continuum of care. #MHLessonsby Carole Ferguson via twitter 9/22/2015 7:51:06 PM
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Evans: What's really important is that you all work together and use existing resources. Link those resources together. #MHLessonsby Carole Ferguson via twitter 9/22/2015 7:51:48 PM
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Evans: Make sure those who need services the most get them. #MHLessonsby Carole Ferguson via twitter 9/22/2015 7:52:03 PM
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Message: Don't do what we do in San Antonio, Evans said. You have a lot of great services here. You all should work together using your existing resources. Link those services together. -
Continuum of care for everyone: single moms, recovering addicts, sex offenders... Meaning no group falls through massive holes #MHLessonsby brandigreene via twitter 9/22/2015 7:52:15 PM -
havenforhope.org across street from Restoration Center is linked with other services #MHLessonsby R Voice via twitter 9/22/2015 7:52:44 PM -
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Evans: We had limited resources for the most vulnerable. #MHLessonsby Carole Ferguson via twitter 9/22/2015 7:52:57 PM
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Evans: San Antonio also has children crisis intervention program to help kids, families recognize early signs of mental illness. #MHLessonsby Carole Ferguson via twitter 9/22/2015 7:54:02 PM
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There are so many things we can do as a community if we work together, Evans said. Our real secret, if there is one, is our community came together to work on these problems. If it's not working, we change it and do something else, he said. It's not too good to be true, what the Restoration Center is doing, he said, inviting people to visit.
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#MHLESSONS The voice that people use to speak to the mentally ill can be the difference between success and failure. Please train RPDby Nadine Bailey via twitter 9/22/2015 7:55:21 PM -
Evans said he looks forward to watching our progress as a community. He is now leaving for the airport.
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Rachel Hatch of the Women's Fund asks: Knowing that every community is different, what about the San Antonio model could be applied here. Make your comments here!
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Teaching responding officers de-escalation techniques to the inebriated, or mentally ill, or kids allows them to accept help. #MHLessonsby brandigreene via twitter 9/22/2015 7:56:25 PM
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What about the San Antonio model could be applied here. Tweet your ideas to #MHLessonsby Carole Ferguson via twitter 9/22/2015 7:56:43 PM
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Audience asked to write ideas on cards and send them forward. But you can tweet them to #MHLessons , too.by Carole Ferguson via twitter 9/22/2015 7:57:17 PM
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Hoping Redding will assemble a delegation of the right professionals to go check this place out. Collaboration is key.
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Ann Wilson from The Women's Fund talked with Leon Evans earlier today. She'll share some of her thoughts. #MHLessonsby Carole Ferguson via twitter 9/22/2015 7:59:02 PM
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Wilson: Talked with Evans about community collaboration. We have lot of organizations and lots of silos. #MHLessonsby Carole Ferguson via twitter 9/22/2015 7:59:53 PM
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Assemble a quick response task force to assist the police with mental health trained individuals.
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by ideaLabHeritage via twitter 9/22/2015 8:00:13 PM -
Susan Wilson of the Women's Fund: We have a lot of silos and assets in this town. We have a lot of individualized program funding. Recently, we've made many collaborative effort in Redding. Prosperity Initiative one example via Shasta County Public Health; Retire Shasta, a collaborative looking at how we get kids to college and find kids out of high school employed; Strengthening Families, a relatively new collaborative.
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Wilson: How do we together become stronger family to prevent some of the issues Evans talked about. #MHLessonsby Carole Ferguson via twitter 9/22/2015 8:01:35 PM
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Susan Wilson has a wealth of experience and wisdom to share on mental health and social services available in Redding. Glad to see her on stage.
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Audience includes city councilmembers, supervisors, police chief, medical personnel, Redding Rancheria. #MHLessonsby Carole Ferguson via twitter 9/22/2015 8:02:47 PM
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Wilson: We need to figure out way to collaborate. #MHLessonsby Carole Ferguson via twitter 9/22/2015 8:03:07 PM
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Susan Wilson says data is important. Lots of us have data. Public health, mental health, substance abuse treatment groups, schools, public defender's office. We have data. The problem for us is we don't necessarily share that data, she said. And the problem is that data is not necessarily shareable. We need shared measurement tools for that data, Wilson said.
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Wilson: There's lots of data out there. Problem for us we don't know how to effectively share that data. #MHLessonsby Carole Ferguson via twitter 9/22/2015 8:04:01 PM
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Wilson: We need to come up with shared measurement tools to share among various agencies. #MHLessonsby Carole Ferguson via twitter 9/22/2015 8:04:21 PM
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Women's Fund members now discussing how this community can work together to implement change #mhlessonsby ashulman via twitter 9/22/2015 8:04:35 PM
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Wilson: First, we have to treat EVERYONE with respect and dignity. #MHLessonsby Carole Ferguson via twitter 9/22/2015 8:05:15 PM
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Wilson: Comments coming in. Going to go through as many as we can. 1. We can do this if we all work together. #MHLessonsby Carole Ferguson via twitter 9/22/2015 8:06:55 PM
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by Carole Ferguson via twitter 9/22/2015 8:07:38 PM
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Wilson: We need to create continuum of care without duplicate services. We have silos. #MHLessonsby Carole Ferguson via twitter 9/22/2015 8:08:24 PM
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Wilson: Create a place for each type of group, ie., mothers, mental illness, sex offenders, substance abuse. #MHLessonsby Carole Ferguson via twitter 9/22/2015 8:09:04 PM
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Susan Wilson of Women's Fund now reading audience suggestions on improving mental health in community #mhlessons http://pbs.twimg.com/media/CPiH6SaUkAABKo9.jpg
by ashulman via twitter 9/22/2015 8:09:22 PM -
Wilson: We need interagency collaboration. Need to look at unnatural partners to get together. Go past usual suspects #MHLessonsby Carole Ferguson via twitter 9/22/2015 8:09:52 PM
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Treatment works. Saves taxpayer dollars. #MentalHealthForum #MHLessonsby MicheleGoedert via twitter 9/22/2015 8:10:21 PM -
Another comment: We need bettering sharing of resources. Eliminate "that's not my job mentality." #MHlessonsby Carole Ferguson via twitter 9/22/2015 8:10:28 PM
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Community needs "less of the 'That's not my job' mentality," one person suggests #MHLessonsby ashulman via twitter 9/22/2015 8:10:52 PM
