NABH Seeking Candidates for 2023 Board Positions
The NABH Selection Committee is seeking nominations to fill the NABH Board Chair-Elect and two NABH Board seats that will become available in 2023.
In particular, the committee wants to identify senior managers who represent the association’s diverse membership related to levels of care, organizational structures, and size.
Please download a nomination form to recommend individuals for the single-slate ballot in 2023.
Please attach a curriculum vitae (CV) for every individual you recommend. This will help the Selection Committee in its deliberations. All NABH members are welcome to suggest themselves.
Please return this form and candidates’ curricula vitae
by Friday, Oct. 14, 2022, to maria@nabh.org.
Harris Poll Shows Strong Public Support for Mental Health and Uncertainty on How to Help
Two in three U.S. adults say they believe they don’t have enough knowledge to tell if someone is considering suicide, while eight in 10 adults say they are open to learning how to help someone in need, according to a Harris Poll
survey released this week.
Since 2015, the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP), the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention (Action Alliance), and the Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC) have commissioned the Harris Poll to conduct bi-annual, nationally representative survey of adults in the United States to understand the public’s beliefs and attitudes about mental health and suicide. The survey evaluates what the public knows about to support someone who is struggling and their perceptions of barriers to help those at risk for suicide.
This latest poll offers an early read on public awareness of 988, the national behavioral health crisis hotline that launched in July. Researchers found that while gains have been made in valuing mental health, there is not consistent societal support for mental healthcare.
The findings show that 76% of Americans surveyed said they perceive mental health as equal to physical health, while 51% said they feel that physical health is treated as more important of the two. Meanwhile, 67% of those surveyed said they believe they have had a mental health condition at some point in their lives, up from 60% who said so in 2018 and 57% in 2018.
“Overall, the poll indicates that progress has been made, but there is more to do,” the report noted. “We must continue to learn more about suicide and mental health particularly through increased research efforts, teach everyone how to help prevent suicide and strengthen mental health, and advocate for improved access to care and robust crisis services.”
ONDCP to Host Webinar About Low-Threshold Buprenorphine on Oct. 17
The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) will host a webinar on Monday, Oct. 17 to examine low-threshold buprenorphine programs, which seek to reduce barriers that often limit access or reduce retention in care.
ONDCP Director Rahul Gupta, M.D. will welcome participants to the webinar, which will feature evidence from experts in the field and include a panel discussion about policy and practice.
The webinar will be held from 1 p.m. – 3 p.m. ET. Click
here to register.
HRSA Previews Behavioral Health Training Opportunities for Primary Care Residents
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) this week announced a funding opportunity totaling nearly $60 million during a five-year period to support training to expand the public health workforce.
The new program will train primary care residents in the prevention, identification, diagnosis, treatment, and referral of services for mental and behavioral health conditions. It is intended to benefit pediatric, adolescent, young adult, and other populations who are at-risk or have experienced abuse, trauma, or mental health and/or substance use disorders, including those related to the effects of gun violence.
According to HRSA, awards will support both classroom training and clinical rotations that focus on mental and behavioral health conditions. Eligible entities include accredited public or not-for-profit private hospitals; schools of allopathic medicine or osteopathic medicine; residency programs accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education in family medicine, general internal medicine, general pediatrics or combined internal medicine and pediatrics (“med-peds”); and tribes and tribal organizations, if otherwise eligible.
Click
here to be notified when this funding opportunity opens.
Enhanced NABH Denial-of-Care Portal is Now Available
NABH recently made enhancements to its Denial-of-Care Portal that are intended to make the portal easier for members to use.
A year ago, NABH developed the Denial-of-Care Portal to collect specific data on insurers who deny care—often without regard to parity or the effects on patients. Now the association has updated this resource to make it more user-friendly for members and also more aligned with what regulators need to identify parity violations.
The updated portal includes fewer questions, which will require less time for members to complete. In addition, all questions are now optional. NABH hopes this will make it more likely for members to share the data they have. Lastly, NABH has added a checklist of “red flags” that were included in the
2022 MHPAEA Report to Congress from the U.S. Health and Human Services, Labor, and Treasury Departments in January.
Please e-mail
Emily Wilkins, NABH’s administrative coordinator, if you have questions about the portal.
Save the Date for the NABH 2023 Annual Meeting!
Please mark your calendars and plan to join us in Washington, DC from
June 12-14, 2023 for next year’s NABH Annual Meeting!
Fact of the Week
A Harris Poll
survey released this week found that more than half of adults in the United States say seeing a mental health professional is a sign of strength.
For questions or comments about this CEO Update, please contact Jessica Zigmond.
