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Stepping Up Initiative: National Resources
- National Stepping Up Initiative Website | Key Resources and Archived Webinars
- Getting Started: Six Questions County Leaders Need to Ask (PDF) | Archived Webinar Recording
- New resource (September 2018): Stepping Up Project Coordinator’s Handbook (PDF)
Stepping Up in North Carolina
- New opportunity (September 2018): No-charge Sequential Intercept Mapping facilitation in your county
- Webinar: Stepping Up through Sequential Intercept Mapping (Nov. 1, 2 p.m. – 3 p.m.)
Event address: https://dsohf.webex.com/dsohf/onstage/g.php?MTID=e6fa93af81d85021ad9b3c4db02fb20f2
Event number: 664 481 485. Event password: 12345. Dial 919-733-2511 to join the audio portion only. - Status Report: North Carolina Stepping Up (PDF - August 2017) | Counties that have adopted resolutions
- North Carolina Counties Step Up to Reduce Mental Illness and Addiction in Jails (from CountyQuarterly, Fall 2017 issue)
- President's Mental Health Engagement Task Force Report and Recommendations (August 2015)
- NC Stepping Up Summit Archived Videos and Presentation Files (May 9, 2017)
NCACC Presidential Initiative on Opioid Abuse
- Responding to the Opioid Crisis (UNC School of Government)
- County Leadership Forum on Opioid Abuse resource page (2017)
- President McClure's Report on NCACC Initiative to Governor's Task Force on MH/IDD/SA (Nov. 30, 2016)
- A Prescription for Action: Local Leadership in Ending the Opioid Crisis
Reports & Presentations
- Intersection of Mental Health and Jails: Select Practices from Across the State: Report | NCCCMA Seminar Presentation (NC Sentencing and Policy Advisory Commission, December 2016)
- Reducing the Number of Mentally Ill in County Jails (NACo)
- Presentation on MH/DD/SA (UNC School of Government)
- Provider Capacity, Service Gaps, and Community Needs
- Prescription Drug Abuse and Child Welfare (SAS)
Additional Content & Resources
- What Science Tells us About Opioid Abuse and Addiction (National Institute on Drug Abuse)
- People With Serious Mental Illness in the Criminal Justice System (2011 article, The Prison Journal)
- Municipal Courts: A Tool for Diverting Mentally Ill from the Criminal Justice System (SAMHSA, 2015)
- North Carolina Suicide Prevention Plan (NC DHHS, 2015)
- HelpGuide Suicide Prevention Resource
- Bridging the Gaps in the HHS Network of Care (Governing Institute, 2016)
- Addressing Mental Illness in County Jails (NACo, September 2015)
Bedlam
Aired: 04/13/20 | 1h 25m 45s
Shot over the course of five years, Bedlam examines the mental health crisis through intimate stories of those people who are in-and-out of overwhelmed and under-resourced psych emergency rooms, jails and homeless camps in Los Angeles.
Aired: 04/13/20 | 1h 25m 45s
Shot over the course of five years, Bedlam examines the mental health crisis through intimate stories of those people who are in-and-out of overwhelmed and under-resourced psych emergency rooms, jails and homeless camps in Los Angeles.
The Definition of Insanity
Aired: 04/14/20 | 55m 1s
The Miami-Dade Criminal Mental Health Project (CMHP) comes to life in this documentary, following a team of dedicated public servants working through the courts to steer people with mental illness — as their court cases hang in the balance — on a path from incarceration to recovery.
Aired: 04/14/20 | 55m 1s
The Miami-Dade Criminal Mental Health Project (CMHP) comes to life in this documentary, following a team of dedicated public servants working through the courts to steer people with mental illness — as their court cases hang in the balance — on a path from incarceration to recovery.
Other Resource Pages
- Mental Health First Aid
- Mental Health America
- NC DHHS: Mental Health and Substance Abuse
- Crisis Solutions North Carolina
- LME/MCO Directory
- NC Council of Community Programs @(Model.BulletStyle == CivicPlus.Entities.Modules.Layout.Enums.BulletStyle.Decimal ? "ol" : "ul")>
Mental Health Legislation
Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse Act of 1985 |
Senate Bill 208 (S.L. 2013-85) - Effective Operation of 1915(b)/(c) Waiver |
House Bill 399 (S.L. 2013-378) - Amendments to Laws Pertaining to Health and Human Services |
Senate Bill 191 (S.L. 2012-151) - LME Governance |
House Bill 916 (S.L. 2011-264) - Statewide expansion of 1915(b)/(c) Waiver |