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Decision Support Group

Holiday Inn Helena Downtown
22 North Last Chance Gulch
August 16, 17, 2002

  AGENDA

Friday, August 16, 2002

8:00 Continental Breakfast

8:15 Welcome, Introductions
Denny Geertsen, Utah Division of Mental Health, Chair WSDSG

8:30 The State of Montana Mental Health
Lou Thompson, Chief, Mental Health Services Bureau

9:15 CDC Survey and Discussion - The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System BRFSS History; National Perspectives; Survey Components and Methodology

  • Pete Feigley, Department of Public Health and Human Services, Montana

  • Joanne Oreskovich, Department of Public Health and Human Services, Montana

10:30 Break

10:45 CDC Survey Review and Discussion
Denny Geertsen, Utah Division of Mental Health, Chair

12:00 Group Lunch (all guests are welcome)

1:00 MHSIP Report Card ver.2 Feedback
Mary Smith, MHSP Policy Group

1:45 Comparisons of Mortality, Causes of Death, and
Diagnoses for Public Mental Health Consumers
Craig Colton, Utah Division of Mental Health, Chair

2:45 Break

3:00 Health Status Indicators - Montana Mortality Data
Bobbi Renner, Mental Health Services Bureau

3:45 Health Discussion
Presenters and Participants

4:15 MHSIP Policy Group
Marla Smith, Wyoming Mental Health Division

5:00 Adjourn (Steering Committee Meeting)
Denny Geertsen, Chair, Greg Brock, Cat Thomas, Marla Smith, Sheila Cooper, Chuck McGee, Bobbi Renner, Bernadette Phelan, Kathy Styc

Saturday, August 17, 2002

8:15 Continental Breakfast

8:30 Steering Committee Report
Denny Geertsen, Utah Division of Mental Health, Chair

9:00 Consumer Update

  • Sheila Cooper, Bonnie Schell,
  • Bonnie Schell, Consumer Advisory Panel for COSPM

9:45 Consumer Voices in Montana
Vicki Stull, Vice-President, Montana Mental Health Advisory Council

10:15 Break

10:30 WSDSG Consumer Email Committee
Sheila Cooper, Consumer Representative

10:45 State Reports
Facilitator: Greg Brock, Alaska, Vice-Chair
2 Minute Updates from all States

12:00 Adjourn

 

For more information email chuckmcgee@wiche.edu

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