· Accelerate research to promote recovery and resilience, and ultimately to cure and prevent mental illness
· Advance evidence-based practices using dissemination and demonstration projects and provide oversight by a public-private partnership for their implementation
· Improve and expand the workforce providing evidence-based mental health services and supports
· Develop the knowledge to inform policy and practice in four understudied areas: mental health disparities, long-term effects of medications, trauma and acute care
Understanding the Goal
ü The delay is too long before research reaches practice
ü Too few benefit from available treatment
ü Reimbursement policies do not foster converting research to practice
ü Serious workforce problems exist
ü Four areas have not been studied enough
ü Disparities in mental health research
ü Long-term use of medications
ü The impact of trauma
ü Acute care
Achieving the Goal
ü Speed research on treatment and recovery
ü Bridge the gap between science and service
ü Change reimbursement policies to more fully support evidence-based practices
ü Address the workforce crisis in mental health care
ü Study disparities for minorities in mental health
ü Study the effects of long-term medication use
ü Examine the effects of trauma
ü Address the problems of acute care
NAMI Ohio Action Steps
1. Advocate for the use of evidence-based best practices at every level of the mental health system.
2. Advocate for systemic change that promotes client-driven recovery.
3. Provide programs and activities that recognize ethnicity, socio-economics, geography, culture, age and other unique influences as essential to quality and success.
· Continue to reach out to diverse communities and populations by offering NAMI programming to: the African-American, Asian and Hispanic communities, veterans, Deaf/Hard of Hearing, recent immigrants, the Amish, the faith community, young families, rural communities, recently released ex-offenders and others (please see Goal #3 for detailed explanations).
4. NAMI Ohio is the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Outreach Coordinator for the state of Ohio. NAMI distributes the latest research information available about mental health to the public via mailings and NAMI newsletters.
5. Legislative testimony on issues having direct impact on consumers and families.
6. Educate the public, mental health providers, families and legislators on issues of mental health (please refer to Goals #1-4 for detailed explanations).
7. Advocate via presentations, newsletters, NAMI Action Alerts and the media on behalf of people with mental illness and their families (please refer to Goals #1-4 for detailed explanations).
- 8. Distribute family, consumer and provider survey data through the Consumer Quality Review Team (CQRT) project, the largest employer of consumers in the state of Ohio.
- 9. Collaborate with ODMH to promote cultural competency via Multi-Ethnic Advocates for Cultural Competence (MACC).
