ntspp.org

Present Schedule:     Flexible, Experience-driven

Territory:     Dallas, Collin, Cooke, Denton, Ellis, Fannin, Grayson, Hunt, Kaufman,     Montague, Navarro, and Rockwall Counties

Phase 1:   Prototype for licensed/approved hospitals, institutions, organizations, treatment centers, agencies, etc.  August 13 to October 6, 2008

Purposes:     Data-gathering. Learning from experience of mental health professional                     community and DPD before public launch (working out the bugs)

Action plan:          

August 13:     Distribute revised version of category list for form to key persons by e-mail for                 input,     including NTBHA Board and staff, MHA, VO, advocates 

August 15:     Assimilate suggestions. Redistribute new category list to same for input on                 Friday morning August 15

August 16:     Discuss at NTSPP EC meeting

August 18:     Distribute approved consensus pilot form by e-mail to all known institutions,                 agencies, advocates, etc.

August 18 ff:     NTSPP EC reviews data on forms, communicates about any questions by e-mail.             (NTSPPresource@gmail.com), consults with community prn

        NTSPP webmaster James Pepper checks licensing information (if any) and when                 verified inputs to website

Sept 1:     Formal request to mental health professional community                             with controlled DPD use at discretion of Sr. Crpl Herb Cotner for                     use of prototype with request for input (no public use)

Sept 1-30:     Mental health community and DPD give input on experience to NTSPP

October 1-6: Assimilate and restructure for launch date. Publicity information out.

Phase 2:     Launch for use by public October 8 for Mental Illness Awareness Week

Phase 3:    Subjecting: Learning from experience     October 8 to January 2009

Phase 4:     Prototype for individual providers      January 2009. Phase 1 process.

NTSPP EXECUTIVE COUNCIL : Nicole Cooper MD (President), Ed Nace MD (Vice-President), Rege Stewart MD (Treasurer), Adam Brenner MD, John Debus MD, Madeline Harford MD, Alan Koenigsberg MD, Phil Korenman MD, Carol North MD, Dan Pearson III MD, and Catherin Roberts MD

CHAPTER OFFICE : NTSPPchapter@gmail.com (preferred communication) www.ntspp.org

Chase Building 8111 Preston Rd Ste 811 Dallas TX 75225.6316 Confidential Fax 214.368.8822

ORGANIZATION: The North Texas Society of Psychiatric Physicians (NTSPP) is the local chapter of the Texas Society of Psychiatric Physicians (TSPP), the district branch of the American Psychiatric Association APA). TSPP: TSPPofc@aol.com www.txpsych.org APA: www.psych.org

NTSPP 4th Thursday eve: Thursday August 28 6:00 pm

Volunteer Opportunities for Psychiatrists and PGYs:

Project Access, The Bridge, The After Hours Clinic, and the New Life Opportunities Program (Prostitute Diversion)

Thanks to our friends at DCMS Project Access, Metrocare, Homeward Bound & DPD for creating and organizing these wonderful, easy opportunites for satisfying service, while providing liability coverage:

Jim Walton MD, MIchael Darrouzet & Connie Webster of Dallas County Medical Society ~ Project Access

Jim Baker MD CEO and Greg Graves MD Medical Director of Metrocare ~ Project Access, The Bridge, The After Hours Clinic

Renee Breazeale and Doug Denton of Homeward Bound, Sgt Louis Felini of DPD, Martha Felini PhD ~ The New Life Opportunities Program (Prostitute Diversion Initiative at I20 Truck Stops)

RSVP if attending only to ntspprsvp@gmail.com along with your pizza topping likes/dislikes.

Confirmation email with location and details will be sent to you the SAME WEEK AS THE EVENT.

Please notify us if you have not received a confirmation email by Monday, August 25.

Psychiatrists & PGYs, please bring cash to cover pizza & drinks. Speakers, you are our guests!

See you there! Your Friends at the NTSPP EC

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NTSPP

EXECUTIVE COUNCIL

Nicole Cooper MD (President) ***Ed Nace MD (Vice-President) ***Rege Stewart MD (Treasurer)

Adam Brenner MD ***John Debus MD ***Madeline Harford MD ***Alan Koenigsberg MD

Phil Korenman MD Carol North MD ***Dan Pearson III MD Catherin Roberts MD

***Past President of NTSPP

CHAPTER OFFICE

NTSPPchapter@gmail.com www.ntspp.org Chase Building 8111 Preston Rd Ste 811 Dallas TX 75225.6316

MOTTO

Affiliation~Altruism~Anticipation~Humor~Mentalization~Self-Assertion~Self-Observation~Sublimation~Suppression

TERRITORY

Dallas Collin Cooke Denton Ellis Fannin Grayson Hunt Kaufman Montague Navarro Rockwall Counties

ORGANIZATION

The North Texas Society of Psychiatric Physicians (NTSPP)

is the local chapter of the Texas Society of Psychiatric Physicians (TSPP),

the district branch of the American Psychiatric Association (APA).

TSPP: TSPPofc@aol.com www.txpsych.org APA: www.psych.org

NAMI Ellis County

decur@sbcglobal.net

Please Mark this important date on your calendar

More to follow

When: July 16, 2008, Third Wednesday of the Month

Where: Counseling Center of Ellis County, 6350 North I-35, Waxahachie, (972-617-6222)

Time: 12 Noon

What to Bring: Sack Lunch, Writing Paper, and Pen

A big welcome to the counselors and nurses of Ennis, Midlothian, and Waxahachie Independent School Districts who are getting our e-mails on the Ellis County Task Team on Mental Health & Substance Abuse for the first time. It is our hope that they will get involved and that we can help them provided services to the students and parents they serve.

We will be working on solutions to help parents, teachers, ect. in Ellis County that have children and adolescents with mental illness. Even if you work with adults only we need you at this important meeting to help us come up with solutions that will help parents and teachers.

• Anna Melton will announce about a new support group for those that have been afflicted by anything from Assault, Sexual Assault, Abuse, or even those who are the primary support for someone listed above.
  
• Rich Cameron of Hickory Trail Hospital will talk to us about them partnering with the Jason Foundation a non profit that provides suicide awareness and prevention programming. The WISD counseling staff has been trained in using the foundation’s classroom materials. (5 minutes)
  
  
• Cynthia Winters, Team Leader for Adapt of Texas, will talk to us about the mental health services that is available through Adapt for children & adolescents. There child/teen clients also receive casework services in the school. (15 minutes)
  
  
• We will divide into four groups and brain storm in each group on how the Ellis County Task Team on Mental Health & Substance Abuse can help solve the top needs of parents with children/adolescents with mental illness.
  

 The Ellis County Task Team is made up of individuals, organizations, law enforcement, school officials, Judges, hospitals, ministers, Ellis County elected officials, attorneys, Ellis County DA staff, service providers, Constables, and any one else that comes in contact with individuals with mental illness.  Its goal is to help each other find solutions to better serve those with mental illness and their loved ones.  If you have an interest feel free to come to any of our task team meetings.

Lionel “Waldo” DeCuir Jr.
NAMI Ellis County
972-523-6679
www.namielliscounty.org

COMI Meeting

Wednesday, June 18, 2008 — 8:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.

Mental Health Association of Greater Dallas

624 N. Good-Latimer, Suite 210, Dallas, Texas 75204

Nannie Hogan Boyd Conference Room

Speaker

Mike Griffiths

Dallas County Juvenile Department

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Date/time: Thursday June 26th at 6 pm  

Speakers: Psychiatrist Carol North MD MPE** and Medical Reserve Corps officials  

Program: Basics of Disaster Psychiatry, the Role of Psychiatrists in Disaster Intervention, and the Medical Reserve Corps  

RSVP: Please RSVP if planning to attend to NTSPPrsvp@gmail.com. Cheap to moderate food price and free location depend on number responding.  

DETAILS: Learn how you can serve as a volunteer during the next Dallas County public health emergency or mass casualty disaster. Learn WHAT YOU CAN DO NOW to get ready and be prepared to serve your community. The Dallas County Medical Reserve Corps is training volunteers and will be here to explain WHY you are needed and HOW you can get involved in this important public health preparedness program.  

The Dallas County Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) enlists medical and non-medical volunteers from the community at large. It then trains these volunteers to fill specific roles in both disaster relief shelters and in temporary clinics, or PODs (points-of-dispensing). The psychiatrist’s role in a shelter (such as following Katrina/Rita evacuations in 2005) will be to assist as part of a medical team operating

an on-site medical care unit within each shelter. In addition, MRC training will help prepare the volunteer psychiatrist for assisting with crisis intervention within the POD environment.  

For the doctor who wishes to train for a broad leadership role, the MRC offers training as POD Director, Clinic Manager, and other non-medical management job roles.  

**Carol North MD MPE is the Dallas County Health & Human Services Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) disaster mental health liaison for MRC Mental Health Units and UT Southwestern Medical Center. Dr. North holds the Nancy and Ray L. Hunt Chair in Crisis Psychiatry as well as being Director-Program in Trauma and Disaster, Dallas VAMC. She will be accompanied by MRC officials.

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All:

This is a notice/Reminder that the NTBHA Board of Directors Meeting will be held in our Conference Room, rm. 210, 1201 Richardson Dr., Richardson, TX 75080 on Wednesday, June 11, 2008 at 12:00 noon. I have attached an Agenda for your information.

Alice Watson

Executive Assistant

North Texas Behavioral Health Authority

1201 Richardson Drive, Suite 270

Richardson, TX 75080

214-366-9407 ext. 112

214-366-9417 Fax

awatson@ntbha.org

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