AZ’s New Substance Abuse Annual Report
Our Behavioral Health team polished off this year’s 2010 Annual Substance Abuse Report to the Legislature and Governor on December 30, 2010. A few highlights include: We began statewide implementation of the American Society of Addiction Medicine Placement Patient Criteria. Once fully adopted, this process will be the uniform criteria for assessing a client’s addiction severity and determining the most [...]
2011 Homeless Street Count
Twenty-two employees from ADHS and members of their families teamed up last week and joined the national effort to rid the nation and our state of homelessness. The beginning step is to produce clear evidence of the need by providing the government of (as closely as we can) the actual number of people who are homeless and the services they [...]
AZ Developmental Disabilities Planning Council Creating New State Plan
The Arizona Developmental Disabilities Planning Council is funded by the fed's and is established by an Arizona Executive Order. They're located on the second floor of our 1740 building. The Council's goal is to help folks with developmental disabilities and their families by supporting approaches that enable persons with DD to fully participate and contribute to their communities through full integration and inclusion. The Council [...]
The ABC’s of our Community Health Analysis Areas
Several years ago, our public health statistics team divided the State into 126 Community Health Analysis Areas to help us analyze data for various disease monitoring programs. The initial trigger to develop the CHAAs was a 1988 law that directed the ADHS to use the data in the cancer registry to identify areas and populations that need investigation. Until recently, the state-collected [...]
Next Fiscal Year’s Budget – pt 4
On January 15, 2011, the Governor released her proposed budget for next fiscal year, which begins July 1, 2011. Our part of the budget in the link above is on pages 105 through 111. You kinda need to be a budgeteer to understand some of it, so I’ll try to distill it down a little in several posts this week. [...]
Next Fiscal Year’s Budget Series – pt 3
On January 15, 2011, the Governor released her proposed budget for next fiscal year, which begins July 1, 2011. Our part of the budget in the link above is on pages 105 through 111. You kinda need to be a budgeteer to understand some of it, so I’ll try to distill it down a little in several posts this week. [...]