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>>> Stuart Gordon 4/9/2020 2:35 PM >>><br></span><div>Attached is this week's <em>NASMHPD Weekly Update. </em></div><em></em><div><br></div><div><em></em><div>We continue to update links to Federal agency guidance documents (from CMS, CDC, and SAMSHA) outlining approaches to responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. We also provide in this issue an updated list of links to state sec. 1135 waivers and sec. 1915(c) Appendix K waivers.</div><div><br></div><div>This issue also contains information on:</div><div><br></div><div>(1) Efforts by CMS to help providers maintain financial sustainability through Medicare accelerated and advance payments;</div><div><br></div><div>(2) NASMHPD's own outreach to Congressional leaders to urge the inclusion in the next coronavirus response legislation of grants/and or loans to help mental health providers and facilities replace lost revenues resulting from social isolation and the economic downturn;</div><div><br></div><div>(2) next Tuesday's SAMHSA-sponsored webinar on <em>The National Guidelines for Crisis Care Best Practice Toolkit;</em> </div><div><br></div><div>(4) the SAMHSA Funding Opportunity Announcement on the emergency state and territorial grants targeted on addressing mental health and substance use disorders during the COVID-19 pandemic, for which applications are due to SAMHSA tomorrow, April 10;</div><div><br></div><div>(3) a new Veterans Administration outreach program to help address veteran suicides in the first year after their separation from service;</div><div><br></div><div>(4) a new phone application, the<em> PTSD Coach</em>, being made available from the National Center on PTSD;</div><div><br></div><div>(5) a number of new webinars; and</div><div><br></div><div>(6) from the Crisis Now <em>CrisisTalk </em>blog, a column on the impact Dr. Ursula Whiteside's new NowMattersNow.org website is making, a photo gallery of life in social isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic, and a link to a column on the impact on physical health of loneliness resulting from social isolation.</div><div><br></div><div>We hope you find this information of value.</div><div><br></div><div>Please, stay safe and well.<br></div><span id="GWSignatureSent" style="padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; display: block;"><span style="display: block;"><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; display: inline-block; -ms-word-wrap: normal;">
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