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AZ’s New Substance Abuse Annual Report

By azdhs-admin| 2017-02-10T09:51:58-07:00 January 31st, 2011|Behavioral Health|

Our Behavioral Health team polished off this year’s 2010 Annual Substance Abuse Report to the Legislature and Governor on December 30, 2010. A few highlights include: We began statewide implementation of the American Society of Addiction Medicine Placement Patient Criteria. Once fully adopted, this process will be the uniform criteria for assessing a client’s addiction [...]

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2011 Homeless Street Count

By azdhs-admin| 2011-01-30T07:22:20-07:00 January 30th, 2011|Behavioral Health, General|

Twenty-two employees from ADHS and members of their families teamed up last week and joined the national effort to rid the nation and our state of homelessness. The beginning step is to produce clear evidence of the need by providing the government of (as closely as we can) the actual number of people who are [...]

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Next Fiscal Year’s Budget Series – pt 3

By azdhs-admin| 2017-02-10T09:51:58-07:00 January 26th, 2011|Behavioral Health, General|

On January 15, 2011, the Governor released her proposed budget for next fiscal year, which begins July 1, 2011. Our part of the budget in the link above is on pages 105 through 111. You kinda need to be a budgeteer to understand some of it, so I’ll try to distill it down a little [...]

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Next Fiscal Year’s Budget Series – pt 2

By azdhs-admin| 2017-02-10T09:51:59-07:00 January 25th, 2011|Behavioral Health, General, Licensing|

On January 15, 2011, the Governor released her proposed budget for next fiscal year, which begins July 1, 2011. Our part of the budget in the link above is on pages 105 through 111. You kinda need to be a budgeteer to understand some of it, so I’ll try to distill it down a little [...]

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Next Fiscal Year’s Budget Series

By azdhs-admin| 2017-02-10T09:51:59-07:00 January 24th, 2011|Behavioral Health, General|

On January 15, 2011, the Governor released her proposed budget for next fiscal year, which begins July 1, 2011. Our part of the budget in the link above is on pages 105 through 111. You kinda need to be a budgeteer to understand some of it, so I’ll try to distill it down a little [...]

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ADHS Launches New Mental Health Decision Tool

By azdhs-admin| 2011-01-21T11:27:23-07:00 January 21st, 2011|Behavioral Health|

Right after the Tucson disaster, our team of behavioral health professionals started working on a decision tool to help folks better identify when and how to seek help. We launched our decision tool this week. Most people with mental illness aren’t violent and most people who are violent don't have a mental illness- but there [...]

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Update on the Governor’s Budget Proposal Regarding Persons with Serious Mental Illness

By azdhs-admin| 2017-02-10T09:51:59-07:00 January 15th, 2011|Behavioral Health|

On January 15, 2011, Governor Brewer released her proposed budget for next fiscal year (which begins July 1, 2011). One of the budget items would change AHCCCS (Medicaid) eligibility for adults without children (called childless adults). The ADHS currently provides behavioral health services to approximately 5,200 persons with serious mental illnesses that are childless adults. [...]

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Tucson Response

By azdhs-admin| 2011-01-11T17:37:07-07:00 January 11th, 2011|Behavioral Health|

I know many of you are following the tragedy that occurred over the weekend in Tucson. If you’re like me, you’ve been trying to make sense of something that is senseless. It is not uncommon to have a variety of reactions to a sudden and violent event such as this, and you may be struggling [...]

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Community Health Center Expansion News

By azdhs-admin| 2017-02-10T09:52:00-07:00 December 29th, 2010|Behavioral Health, Prevention|

The US Department of Health and Human Services is in line to receive $11 Billion in funding over the next 5 years for the operation, expansion and construction of health centers nationwide. These funds will be made available through a nationwide competitive grant application process. Our Bureau of Health Systems Development is the Arizona designated [...]

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2011 Department Priorities Spotlight- Public Health Prevention

By azdhs-admin| 2010-12-28T08:52:07-07:00 December 28th, 2010|Behavioral Health, Prevention|

The name of the game for Public Health Prevention in 2011 is integration and leverage. Our Public Health Prevention Team will be focusing on the social determinants of health and working to implement policies, systems and environmental changes that make the healthy choices easy. Here are some examples of our public health prevention priorities for the [...]

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