Committee Meeting Notice: Joint Legislative Oversight Committee MH DD SA

There will be a Joint Legislative Oversight Meeting for Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, Substance Abuse Service Reform this Tuesday, September 25, 2007. This meeting will begin at 10:0am and end at 4:00pm. The meeting will take place in room 643 of the Legislative Office Building. All meetings are open to the public. If you are unable to attend you can listen on line by going to http://www.ncleg.net/Audio/Audio.html and selecting "Appropriations Committee Room 643".



We will be posting a report following this meeting.



Meeting Agenda:

JOINT LEGISLATIVE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE ON
MENTAL HEALTH, DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE SERVICES
AGENDA
September 25, 2007, 10:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Room 643, LOB
Senator Martin Nesbitt, Co-Chair, Presiding


Greetings and Introductions / New Members 10:00 – 10:30
Senator Martin Nesbitt, Co-Chair
Representative Verla Insko, Co-Chair

Introduction of and Comments by Secretary of DHHS 10:30 – 11:00
Secretary Dempsey Benton, DHHS

Update on Division’s LME Implementation Study 11:00 – 12:00
Dempsey Benton, Secretary
Department of HHS

Alice Lin, PhD
Health and Human Services Consultant

Lunch Noon – 1:00

DHHS Report on the Plan for Closure of Dorothea Dix and John 1:00 – 2:00 Umstead Hospitals and Comments by Interested Legislators
Jim Osberg, Chief of State Operated Services
Division of MH/DD/SAS

Comments

Update on 2007 Legislative Actions 2:00 – 2:30
LOC Staff


Updates on On-Going Projects 2:30 – 3:30
Housing 400 Initiative (Trisch Amend, NCHFA & Julia Bick, DHHS)
Hospital Utilization Pilot (Jim Osberg, DMHDDSAS)
Data Collection (Phillip Hoffman, DMHDDSAS)
Crisis Services Implementation (Bonnie Morrell, DMHDDSAS)
Performance Indicators (Flo Stein, DMHDDSAS)

Adjourn