Mental Health Treatment for All: Access, Affordability
and Quality too!

Saturday, October 19, 2002 10 am to 1 pm
(free registration & coffee begins at 9:30)

Pace University, 1 Pace Plaza (across from City Hall), NYC

Keynote Address:

Understanding the Enemy:

How HMO’s Cut Treatment to
Improve the Bottom Line

An Insider's Experience

Linda Peeno, MD

Former medical reviewer for HMOs; now a crusading writer and speaker on the managed care industry, and real-life fighter against profit-driven health care, as depicted in the    feature film, “Damaged Care.”

SPECIAL PANELS:

• Evidence-Based Treatment - New York State’s Quality Campaign
  Sharon Carpinello, RN, PhD
            Executive Deputy Commissioner of the New York State Office of Mental Health.

• Fighting for Care - Children and Families
  Patricia Dowds, PhD
            Faculty and Board member of The Minuchin Center for the Family, Board member of Universal Health Care Network; Vice-President of the National Coalition of Mental Health Professionals and Consumers, Inc.

• Fighting for Care - African-American Adolescents
  Kirkland Vaughns, PhD
            Editor of the Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy; faculty member, Derner Institute, Adelphi University; recipient of the Kurt Lewin Award

• The Politics of Getting Quality Mental Health Care for All
  Rosalyn Gilbert, ACSW
            Treasurer, National Coalition of Mental Health Professionals and Consumers; Board member, AMHA-NY
  Mark Hannay
            Co-Chair, Rescue Health Care New York; Director, Metro New York Health Care for All Campaign
  Marianne Jackson, PhD
            Co-Chair, Rescue Health Care New York; Chair, Health Care Committee, NYS Psychological Assoc.

Statement of Purpose: Clinicians and health care advocates need to join together to achieve mental health parity and comprehensive mental health benefits for all. As our failing, privatized health care system is reformed, we must make sure that the full range of mental illnesses are covered, from problems of living to serious mental disorders and chemical dependency. All effective treatments and prevention approaches must be covered, including psycho-educational treatment, school-based programs, and psychotherapy.

SPONSORED BY RESCUE HEALTH CARE NEW YORK

CO-SPONSORS: · SOCIAL ISSUES DIVISION, NYS PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION · METRO NEW YORK HEALTH CARE FOR ALL CAMPAIGN · PACE UNIVERSITY PSYCHOLOGY DEPARTMENT, PSI CHI CHAPTER & STUDENT PSYCHOLOGY CLUB · NATIONAL COALITION OF MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS & CONSUMERS, INC. · NEW YORK STATE NURSES ASSOCIATION · NY CHAPTER OF PHYSICIANS FOR A NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAM · NURSE PRACTITIONERS OF NEW YORK

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