SAMHSA’s Recovery Support Strategic Initiative, CODI, & PATH and HMIS

SAMHSA’s Recovery Support Strategic Initiative, CODI, & PATH and HMIS – This video features three presentations focusing on SAMHSA’s Recovery Support Strategic Initiative, the Co-Occurring Mental Health and Substance Abuse Disorders Knowledge Synthesis, Product Development & Technical Assistance (CODI) contract, and finally concludes with a presentation on the alignment of PATH data with the US Housing and Urban Development’s Homeless Management Information System (HMIS). A. Kathryn Power, M.Ed. is the Director of the Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), an operating division of the US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). CMHS provides national leadership in mental health promotion, mental illness prevention, and the development and dissemination of effective mental health services. Director Power leads a staff of professionals in facilitating the transformation of our nation’s mental health care system into one that is recovery-oriented and consumer-centered, and serves as the lead for the Recovery Support Initiative. (visit this PATH Resource to find out more about SAMHSA’s Eight Strategic Initiatives: pathprogram.samhsa.gov Next, Deborah Stone, Ph.D., Social Science Analyst, Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS), SAMHSA and Onaje Salim, LPC, MAC, CCS, Public Health Advisor, Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), SAMHSA provide an overview of the CSAT/CMHS Co-Occurring Mental Health and Substance Abuse Disorders Knowledge Synthesis, Product …

Pete Doherty on heroin, life in Paris and his new film

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Doherty's own father, an army major, who has called his son a "pathetic, limp figure", refuses to see him until he stops the drugs. A sadness crosses Doherty face. "I'm still in touch with my … you would expect to find him. But quiet is not a bad …
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