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Special Meeting February 3rd: How Does Housing Impact Your Health and Recovery?

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Are you a client of San Mateo County Behavioral Health and Recovery Services (BHRS) with a story about how housing has impacted your health and well-being?

The San Mateo County Mental Health and Substance Abuse Commission (MHSARC) wants to hear from BHRS clients about how housing in San Mateo County can affect their mental health and/or substance use recovery process. Give your feedback and help address housing issues in San Mateo County!

Clients, family members, providers, and staff are welcome to attend. Please share this invitation with others!

SPECIAL MEETING ON HOUSING & BEHAVIORAL HEALTH

Wednesday, February 3, 2016, 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
San Mateo County Health System, 225 37th Avenue, Room 100, San Mateo, CA 94403

Unable to attend and want to share your story? Send your story to: Chantae Rochester, Behavioral Health and Recovery Services, 225 37th Avenue, San Mateo, CA, 94403 or email: crochester@smcgov.org,  (650) 573-2544.

Download the flyer: English, Spanish

Wellness Matters – January 2016 Issue

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Check out the  January issue of Wellness Matters, an e-Journal of San Mateo County Behavioral Health and Recovery Services.  Topics in this issue of Wellness Matters include:

– A Year in Review:  Behavioral Health and Recovery Services 2015 Highlights
– Bipolar Disorder Early Assessment and Management Expands Eligibility
– In Memory of George S. Culores
– Furry Friends Visit North County’s Care Group
– Employee Spotlight (featuring Stephen Kaplan)
– And more!

Free NAMI Basics Education Program For Parents and Family Caregivers

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NAMI Basics is a free six week education course for parents and other family caregivers of children and adolescents living with mental illness. This course is taught by trained teachers who are also parents/caregivers of individuals who developed the symptoms of mental illness prior to age 13 years.

  • Fundamental information necessary to be an effective caregiver.
  • Coping with the impact that mental illness has on child and family.
  • Tools for parent/caregiver to help make the best possible decisions for your child.
  • Self-care for parent/caregiver and family.

Classes begin: January 13, 2016 – 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM
1650 Borel Place, Suite 130, San Mateo, CA 94402
Contact us to register for this NAMI Basics Class!
Claudia Saggese: 650 573-2189 or
NAMI Office: 650 638-0800 or Education@namisanmateo.org
Download the flyer.

Request for Proposals: Multi-Cultural Center Services, East Palo Alto

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BHRS is soliciting proposals from qualified and interested providers for the provision of Multi-Cultural Center Services in East Palo Alto. The Request for Proposals for these services can be viewed at and downloaded by going to www.smchealth.org/bhrs/rfp. If unable to download, paper copies of the RFP may be requested from Mary Vozikes via email mvozikes@smcgov.org.

All interested parties are invited to attend the non-mandatory proposers’ conference to be held on Wednesday, January 13, 2016 at 1:30 P.M. in Conference Room 300.11 (Third Floor) of the Health Services building, 225 37th Avenue, San Mateo, California. The deadline for submitting a proposal is 4:00 P.M. PST on Friday, January 22, 2016.

Request for Proposals: Health Ambassador Program-Youth

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BHRS is soliciting proposals from qualified and interested providers for the provision of Health Ambassador Program – Youth. The Request for Proposals for these services can be viewed at: www.smhealth.org/bhrs/rfp. If unable to download, paper copies of the RFP may be requested from Martha Ugarte-Ortiz via email – mugarte-ortiz@smcgov.org.

All interested parties are invited to attend the non-mandatory proposers’ conference to be held on Monday, January 4, 2016 at 10:00 A.M. in the BHRS Conference Room of the Health Services Building, 225 37th Avenue, 3rd Floor. San Mateo, California.

The deadline for submitting a proposal is 4:00 P.M. PST on Monday, January 25, 2016.

Health System’s Website: Tell Us What You Think

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The San Mateo County Health System is redesigning the Health System website in 2016 and want to hear your feedback on our current site. Tell us what you think by completing this brief survey by 12/18.

HS website

County continues rehab contracts: Six providers to receive nearly $10.8 million for substance use treatment

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The San Mateo County Board of Supervisors is set Tuesday to approve contracts totaling about $10.8 million to six nonprofit agencies that provide substance abuse treatment.

Although the county has a continuing resolution with the agencies to fund their services, approval of the contracts was on hold as officials have awaited word on a waiver that would give nonprofits the ability to draw upon federal funds to provide expanded substance abuse treatment.

The nonprofits had no disruption in payments, however, and the county just submitted a plan to the state Department of Health Care Services Nov. 30 on how local agencies would use Medicaid and Medi-Cal dollars to provide substance abuse treatment to a “larger eligibility pool,” Steve Kaplan, director of Behavioral Health and Recovery Services, said Monday.

Currently, Medi-Cal restricts the types of services that may be provided to claim federal participation, Kaplan said.

Once the waiver is approved, Medi-Cal eligible individuals will have access to a rich array of services, he said.

It will also increase the eligibility pool to access services, he said.

Read the full story in The Daily Journal.

Request for Letter of Interest: Multi-Cultural Center Service

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BHRS is conducting a survey to determine whether organizations/agencies are interested in submitting proposals if a Request for Proposals (RFP) is issued to provide: Multi-Cultural Center services for mental health consumers and their family members in East Palo Alto. BHRS is seeking an organization with expertise in providing: culturally diverse community-based programs, support and community linkages for these individuals. The center will build capacity in order to ensure long-term service provision to mental health consumers in the East Palo Alto community.

If sufficient interest is demonstrated, an RFP will be issued. In the event that only one organization/agency responds to th is Request for Letters of Interest, BHRS could begin negotiating a contract immediately.  See the Request for Letter of Interest for more info.  Deadline for submissions is November 30, 2015.

 

Autism Services Now Available

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Did you know that autism benefits are now available for Medi-Cal covered families?  Families, pediatricians and providers can call the BHRS ACCESS Call Center at: 1-800-686-0101 and request autism related services to get started today. (Please have documents that indicate diagnosis ready).

 

Adolescent Depression: What We All Should Know – November 16

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A free community event open to the public co-hosted by the  American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and the UCSF Depression Center

Adolescent Depression: What We All Should Know
Monday, November 16, 6:30-9:00 p.m.
UCSF Parnassus Campus, Cole Hall Auditorium, 513 Parnassus Ave, San Francisco

Keynote Address
Stephen Hinshaw, PhD, is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley and Vice Chair of Psychology for the UCSF Department of Psychiatry.  He is a world-renowned scholar and clinician whose work includes The Triple Bind: Saving our Teenage Girls from Today’s Pressures. He will discuss the everyday challenges teens face and how these challenges influence their mental health.

Presentations:

Adolescent depression and anxiety: Who is at risk and why?
Kaja LeWinn, ScD, is an epidemiologist and Assistant Professor in the UCSF Department of Psychiatry and studies how social factors shape the risk for adolescent depression.

What does depression look like in the brain?
Olga Tymofiyeva, PhD, is a brain imaging specialist who develops and applies novel MRI techniques that help us understand the structure and function of the brain.

Current treatment strategies and future directions
Eva Henje Blom, MD, PhD, is a specialist in child and adolescent psychiatry and teacher of contemplative practices. She has developed the novel treatment model (TARA), based on the neuroscience of adolescent depression.

For more info and to register visit: depressioncenter.ucsf.edu/2015

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