OFFCMH Upcoming Events

Improving Physical Health Care in Community Mental Health Centers

This training is made possible by a generous grant from the

Ohio Department of Mental Health

Improving Physical Health Care in Community Mental Health Centers

Who should attend?

Frontline workers/clinicians in community mental health centers will learn about signs and symptoms of common chronic medical conditions and interventions/resources for improving their clients' physical health.

Directors, managers and administrators will learn about implementing intergrated care guidelines as part of their agencies' strategic and quality improvement plans.

Family members and consumers will learn about their risk factors for chronic medical conditions such as diabetes, high blood pressure and heart disease and strategies and resources for prevention, detection, treatment and healthy lifestyle.

Training Dates and Locations

Summit Behavioral Healthcare Tuesday, March 29, 2011

1101 Summit Road, Cincinnati 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Twin Valley Behavioral Healthcare Tuesday, April 5, 2011

2200 W. Broad Street, Columbus 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Northcoast Behavioral Healthcare Tuesday, April 19, 2011

1708 Southpoint Drive, Cleveland 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Applachian Behavioral Healthcare Tuesday, April 26, 2011

100 Hospital Drive, Athens 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Northwest Ohio Psychiatric Hospital Tuesday, May 3, 2011

930 Detroit Avenue, Toledo 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Free CEUs and Refreshments

RSVP to namiohio@namiohio.org

Why This Training?

Ohioans with severe mental illness die much earlier than other Ohioans without mental illness and 60% of these premature deaths are a result of "natural causes" such as heart disease and diabetes.

The purpose of this training is to review strategies for Improving Physical Health Care in Community Mental Heatlh Centers and to learn about the intergrated care guidelines for:

Diabetes/Glucose Monitoring
Metabolic Syndrome
Bowel Dysfunction

RSVP, Please!

E-mail at least one week prior to the training you plan to attend:

namiohio@namiohio.org

Include your name, agency, telephone number.

If you have any questions, contact Karen at 614-224-2700 or the above e-mail address.

Recent tragedies in Franklin County, Clark County and Arizona raised public awareness about the pain that untreated mental illness causes. Governmental overthrows in the Middle East and proposed changes to collective bargaining may have taken this topic out of the headlines, but for families living with mental illness, the pain does not go away.

Fortunately, for today anyway, a report issued by the National Alliance on Mental Illness has put us back in the headlines. The report, State Mental Health Cuts: A National Crisis identifies Ohio as eighth in the nation for cuts to mental health. The total amount of the decrease between Fiscal Year 2009 to Fiscal Year 2011 is $57.7 million.

To read the report in its entirety, go to: www.nami.org/budgetcuts. And, to view coverage of the report in newspapers around Ohio, click on the links below.

Please do not stop sharing your stories about what it is like to live with mental illness.