Findings to practitioners in the field of Behavioral Health an issue of concern . Its an issue of concern because, generally speaking, as researchers, weve had a tendency to do this in a oneway street, so that we come into a treatmentwe either design an intervention or we come into a Treatment Organization as experts. We tell them what were going to do or what they should be doing without really consulting with them in terms of what they need, just like what tom said. It really has to be a twoway street. And so, i think what has happened so far, many times, is theresits really two different specialties, if you will, and what the researcher is doing is really not that relevant to whats going on in the field for a variety of reasons. A lot of the clinical trials, for example, have very exclusive criteria, so that the majority of people that a Treatment Agency would see are not included. Thats the first thing. And also, a lot of these studies that produce the evidencebased are done in a s
Together so i think you are absolutely correct but i want you to be sure that weve done our best to make this an incl u. S. Ive report. The impet u. S. Is on the agencies themselves i think you guys have done an incredible job and now its incumbent on us to make sure that all the agencies are as informed as they can be chances are they are because they were involved in this process and participated and shared information with you but i want to make sure that happens. Supervisor mar. I was going to say the rapidly aging population and how critical longterm care and the planning counsel their work help s us understand for budgets for the department of aging Adult Services and like the longterm plan are critical i like how theres ethnic breakdowns and other demographic breakdowns too so looking at obesity by ethnicity and neighborhood is really helpful and a lot of our Revenue Generating planning as well i did want to ask about the Affordable Care act i know you quickly mentioned that but
Still dont have access to a dentist. So how do we use that information to inform, you know, where we invest and what decisions we make . So thats what im talking about. Yeah i think that could be a good follow up item for us. That is a great follow up item for us and i want to say while we talk about the master plan being a product of the department of Public Health and Planning Department so for example a lot of the data you see there did come from the department of children and youth and their families and aging Adult Services so we tried to do in this report not to ignore preexisting information that has come out of other agencies but intended to pull all those data sources together so i think you are absolutely correct but i want you to be sure that weve done our best to make this an incl u. S. Ive report. The impet u. S. Is on the agencies themselves i think you guys have done an incredible job and now its incumbent on us to make sure that all the agencies are as informed as they
We talk about the master plan being a product of the department of Public Health and Planning Department so for example a lot of the data you see there did come from the department of children and youth and their families and aging Adult Services so we tried to do in this report not to ignore preexisting information that has come out of other agencies but intended to pull all those data sources together so i think you are absolutely correct but i want you to be sure that weve done our best to make this an incl u. S. Ive report. The impet u. S. Is on the agencies themselves i think you guys have done an incredible job and now its incumbent on us to make sure that all the agencies are as informed as they can be chances are they are because they were involved in this process and participated and shared information with you but i want to make sure that happens. Supervisor mar. I was going to say the rapidly aging population and how critical longterm care and the planning counsel their work
This one. This one. There was kind of some argument about, well, which came first . We need to address the Substance Abuse issue before we can make headway on the Mental Health issue. On the flip side, the Mental Health practitioners would say, no, we need to address the depression or what have you before we can really make headway on the Substance Use. And i think what people are really beginning to understand, especially in the last decade, that they have to be treated at the same time and not just treated at the same time in parallel, but treated at the same time in a very integrated fashion. If you google dual disorder, you will see hypertension and diabetes, but you never hear problems in treating those two disorders. I think the reason is doctors, nurses, pharmacists are educated in both, and, very importantly, the money comes out of the same pot. So, so often theres a separate pot for Mental Health money and Substance Abuse money, and it has produced an unnecessary, really divis