Montana SAAs Long Range Planning Committee

Where are the SAAs going and how are we going to get there?

Planning Documents below

Next Conference call: Thursday, October 18, 2007 at 10AM, meeting method to be determined.
Rescheduled for Tuesday, October 23 at 10AM, conference call, details to be determined.
Next WSAA Long Range Planning, Wednesday, October 17, (after Board meeting) 1-230pm tentative.
Next Physical meeting:  Bozeman, November 1, 2007, location and time (evening) to be announced.

Assignment:
By November 1, please read/skim the following:


Eastern Service Area Authority LRPC Members
Name
SAA Office
Email
Phone
Town
Alice Hougardy
ESAA Chair
alicehougardy80@hotmail.com

Bill Hodges

bhodges@co.bighorn.mt.us


Dee Holley

deeholley@live.com


Rev Mulkeyxxxx



Baker
Central Service Area Authority LRPC Members
Tom PelusoCSAA Chairtompeluso@msn.com588.8959Bozeman
Joe Moll

mircale2@msn.com
452-4582

Kathleen Hartman

kompi@mtintouch.net
759-5788

Vernon Bishop
CSAA Secretary
vernonbishop@bresnan.net


Lenore Stiffarm

lstifarm@ttc-cmc.net
673-3566

Martha BottelsonCSAA Vice Chairmarthascsaamail@bresnan.net458-9547





Western Service Area Authority LRPC Members
Charles Baker (point person for WSAA)
WSAA Board
charles@wsaamt.org

Hamilton
Alexis Volkerts
WSAA Ex-Officio
alexisv@mtadv.org

Missoula
Marty Onishuk
WSAA Board
       monishuk@aol.com

Missoula
Jennifer Robohm
WSAA Board
       Jennifer.robohm@umontana.edu

Missoula
Patrick Wayne
WSAA Chair


Missoula
Kay Jennings

       kayjennings@qwest.net

Missoula
AMDD
Mary Jane Fox
Antonia Klein
Dan Ladd


Planning and Visioning Documents:
Which of these documents should be used by the LRPC?
CSB--even though the Whitefish paper would have useful information, it was not an "open" process.  And I have problems with that.  I believe that the process are as important as the results (that is, the ends do NOT justify the means).  (Medical research that does not use Ethical Principles and Guidelines for the Protection of Human Subjects of Research is not medical research--perhaps what "open and transparent process" for mental health system transformation should be spelt out so that there is no misunderstanding much like the Ethical Principles and Guidelines for medical research.

To Do:
Organization of Committee:
Should there be an equal number of members from each SAA?
Should each member have one vote or should each SAA two designated delegates (similar to SAA Summits)?
Should there be a designated chairman for this committee or should the chair rotate among the SAAs?
Should there be a designated secretary for this committee?
Should this committee get a budget from the SAAs for support and development?

Representation of Other Mental Health Organizations on this committee:
Should the LRPC invite other organizations in Montana (especially the following:
MHOAC, SOC/KMAs, AMDD, CMHCs, Legislature, NAMI-MT, MMHA, CALM4Us, MAP) to
have designated members on this committee?
Would this tend to make the committee unwieldy?
Would this keep this process transparent?
Would this help stakeholder by-in?
Are there any other organzations that could be on this committee?


Proposed Long-Term Agenda:

Foundational (by Next SAA Summit August/September 2007)

Agree on the following:
Number and scope of the reports
Timeline for the reports
Preliminary Definition of "Recovery" in Montana using Federal Consensus Statement
Preliminary Quality of Life and Quality of Service indicators to measure system Transformation
Formal, informal or no representation from stakeholder groups

First report (by December 2007):
broad strokes of 2-year, 4-year, 6-year, 8-year and 10-year goals.
Also agreement on which of the previous reports or parts of reports are "foundational" or "canonical."

Second report(s) (by June 2008):
Montana consensus on "Recovery"
Process of integration of substance abuse treatment into SAA oversight
Process of integration of children's mental health into SAA oversight with SOC/KMAs
Road-map for developing community services survey, planning, development, oversight (shared with SAAs and AMDD)
Road-map for developing institutional services survey, planning development, oversight
(shared with SAAs and AMDD when appropriate)

Third report (by November 2008):
Agree on Legislative agenda for 2009 session
CSB--I see the LRPC being the Joint SAA Legislative Committee while the state legislature is in session

Fourth report (by June 2009):
Planning for 2009-2010 cycle

Evidence-Based Articles and Information:
  JAMA: Toward Evidence-Based Policy Making and Standardized Assessment of Health Policy Reform (Extract)
  JAMA: Improving Patient Care by Linking Evidence-Based Medicine and Evidence-Based Management (Extract)