Behavioral Health Community Meeting Schedule
As I’ve mentioned in earlier posts, the covered services will be changing for adults with serious mental illness who do not qualify for Medicaid in response to recent budget reductions. We’ve established a dedicated project team to research strategies to responsibly implement the benefit reductions. The project team, composed of peers, family members and agency representatives, is looking at a [...]
Proposition 100 Voter Registration Deadline
Monday, April 19 is the registration deadline to vote on Proposition 100- which is the Special Election for the 3 year, 1% sales tax that would benefit education, public safety and health services (including behavioral health). The election will be held on May 18, but many people will be voting using early mail-in ballots. If you still need to register [...]
Congratulations
Go out to our own Carol Hensell (from the Bureau of Women’s and Children’s Health). Carol won the 2010 Cherish the Children Award in the Individual category. This Award is given each April as part of Child Abuse Prevention Awareness Month by the Greater Phoenix Child Abuse Prevention Council, a volunteer organization that works to promote all efforts across the [...]
Health Matters Web Resource
We rolled out our new public health information system … called Arizona Health Matters http://www.arizonahealthmatters.org/. It’s an electronic one stop source of unbiased data and information about community health and healthy communities in general. It’s intended to help planners, policy makers, and community members learn about issues and identify improvements. On the site, you can compare Arizona's health with other [...]
New “Go Low” Campaign
Let’s start with a quick quiz on this one… Which of the following food items contains more fat: 2 slices of pepperoni pizza 1 order of large fries 3 glasses of whole milk 8 strips of bacon The answer is 3. 3 glasses of whole milk. If you pour whole milk at mealtime for your kids instead of 1% milk, [...]
Behavioral Health Information Center
We updated our home page this week and added an information hub for behavioral health. The information at this site will be regularly updated in the coming weeks as we begin to implement behavioral health service reductions for folks that don’t qualify for benefits under AHCCCS. Our commitment is to continually share updated information with you including through the use [...]