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>>> Stuart Gordon 4/16/2020 3:02 PM >>><br></span><div>Attached is this week's <em>NASMHPD Weekly Update</em>, containing:</div><div><br></div><div>(1) two pages of information on SAMHSA's Disaster Distress Helpline;</div><div><br></div><div>(2) additions to the compendium of Federal agency links, from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) (marked "NEW") addressing the COVID-19 Crisis;</div><div><br></div><div>(3) additions of links to <span style='color: rgb(31, 56, 100); mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;'>§<strong> </strong></span>1135 Medicaid waivers for Utah, Puerto Rico, and the Northern Mariana Islands to our compilation of <span style='color: rgb(31, 56, 100); mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;'>§ </span>1135 waivers, and our compendium of Medicaid <span style='color: rgb(31, 56, 100); mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;'>§ 1915(c) Appendix K waivers</span> ;</div><div><br></div><div>(4) a new compilation of State Medicaid waivers addressing the COVID-19 crisis;</div><div><br></div><div>(5) Peer-Led Recommendations for Supporting Individuals Receiving Care in State Psychiatric Facilities during the COVID-19 Crisis developed by NASMHPD's Division of Recovery Support Services and SAMHSA's Consumer Networks;</div><div><br></div><div>(6) details on a new SAMHSA-sponsored webinar on Improving Access to Care: Mental Health Course for Parents and Caregivers Available through Technology, a new SAMHSA GAINS Center 3-part virtual learning community on Essential Measures for Data & Information Sharing Across the<br>Sequential Intercept Model which starts May 5, and a SAMHSA-sponsored April 21 Mental Health Technology Transfer Center Network "Meet Up" on Assertive Community Treatment;</div><div><br></div><div>(7) information on a new Veterans Affairs Safe Firearms Storage Toolkit intended to reduce veteran firearm suicides;</div><div><br></div><div>(8) a new Crisis Now <em>CrisisTalk </em>blog describing what Disaster Expert Jeannette David says the past might inform us on what is to come in behavioral health; and</div><div><br></div><div>(9) three boxes of NASMHPD Links of Interest, relating mostly--but not entirely--to how mental health interrelates with the COVID-19 virus, the anxiety it invokes, and the mandated social distancing imposed by authorities.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>We hope you will find this information to be useful. </div><div><br></div><div>If there is any COVID-related information that you would like to see in the <em>Weekly Update </em>that you are not currently finding either in the <em>Weekly Update</em> or on the <a href="https://www.nasmhpd.org/content/covid-19-resource-links">NASMHPD COVID-19 Landing Page</a> please let us know and we will work to include it.</div><div><br></div><div>And please, everybody, stay safe and well. This too shall pass and you will be needed in the aftermath.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><span id="GWSignatureSent" style="padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; display: block;"><span style="display: block;"><br><span style="display: inline-block; -ms-word-wrap: normal;">
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