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>>> Stuart Gordon 5/21/2020 2:56 PM >>><br></span><div>Attached is this week's <em>NASMHPD Weekly Update. </em>It contains:</div><div><br></div><div>(1) news of President Trump's executive order directing Federal agencies to review the waivers and flexibilities they've utilized to address the COVID-19 pandemic, with an eye to making them permanent to facilitate economic recovery, and an effort by NASMHPD and the D.C.-based Mental Health Liaison Group coalition of 70+ mental health advocacy organizations to urge CMS to create an interim period after the emergency period ends to collect and weigh outcomes and data from COVID-19-related telehealth flexibilities, in order to provide support for making those telehealth flexibilities permanent;</div><div><br></div><div>(2) a compilation of links to state guidance documents on relaxing COVID-19-related restrictions, prepared by the Department of Health and Human Services' Partnership Center;</div><div><br></div><div>(3) a summary of a <em>Lancet </em>article championing an interdisciplinary approach to reducing any increased suicide risk associated with the effects of the pandemic;</div><div><br></div><div>(4) a Crisis Now <em>CrisisTalks blog </em>on creating a support system for the most marginalized populations in the wake of the pandemic; and</div><div><br></div><div>(5) a reminder that the deadline is tomorrow, May 22, for submitting applications for SAMHSA's emergency grants for suicide prevention in the COVID-19 environment.</div><div><br></div><div>Have a good holiday weekend. The <em>NASMHPD Weekly Update </em>will be taking next week off, but will return June 5.<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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