Legislative Oversight Committee Mental Health/Developmental Disabilities/Substance Abuse Thursday Agenda

AGENDA

Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on 

Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse Services 

January 14, 2009, 10:00 A.M.; Room 643, Legislative Office Building 

Representative Verla Insko, Co-Chair, Presiding 

1. Greetings and Opening Comments 10:00
Senator Martin Nesbitt, Co-Chair
Representative Verla Insko, Co-Chair

2. Remarks from Newly-Appointed DHHS Secretary 10:00 – 10:10
Lanier Cansler, Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services

3. Final Report of the Taskforce on Substance Abuse Services 10:10 – 11:30
Pam Silberman, JD, DrPH, President & CEO, North Carolina Institute of Medicine

4. Reporting Deaths in State Facilities; Rulemaking Process 11:30 – 12:00
John R. Corne, Chairman, Commission on MHDDSA

5. Outcomes for Previously Hospitalized Consumers 12:00 – 12:30
Carol Ripple, Ph.D., Program Evaluation Division


LUNCH 12:30 – 1:30

6. Local Management Entities 1:30 – 2:30
a. Pathways
Rhett Melton, Area Director
b. Orange Person Chatham
Judy Truitt, Area Director
c. The Beacon Center
Karen Salacki, Area Director

7. Expenditure of Service Dollars 2:30 – 2:45
Leza Wainwright, Director, Division of MH/DD/SAS, DHHS

8. State Psychiatric Hospital Update 2:45 – 3:00
Dr. Jim Osberg, Chief, State Operated Services
Division of MH/DD/SAS, DHHS

9. Update on DHHS Involuntary Commitment Workgroup 3:00– 3:15
Flo Stein, Chief, Community Policy Management

ADJOURN 3:30