NYAPRS Note: A typically thoughtful piece on today’s Behavioral Healthcare by our friend Ron Manderscheid whose view of key issues in 2015 includes federal mental health legislation, Affordable Care Act court action, Affordable Care Organizations, criminal justice reform imperatives and the key value and role of peer run services.
Setting Our Bold Course for 2015
by Ron Manderscheid, PhD
Behavioral Healthcare December 31, 2014
2015 likely will be a very pivotal year for behavioral healthcare. As you celebrate the arrival of the New Year, prepare yourself to begin a very bold course of action on January 2nd.
As each of us prepares to go out with family and friends to celebrate the arrival of 2015 on New Year’s Eve, I hope that we also will reflect upon our unfinished national agendas from 2014 and then set a very bold course for the New Year. If we do so, I think that we will realize very quickly that the eventualities of 2015 will depend in large measure upon our willingness as a field to take action rather than wait for others to do so.
Read more at: http://www.behavioral.net/blogs/ron-manderscheid/setting-our-bold-course-2015
Ron Manderscheid, PhD
Exec Dir, NACBHDD
rmanderscheid@nacbhd.org
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