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News July 2013 Vol. 19 No. 7
1917 Winnebago St, Madison WI 53704 608-249-7477 copia@sbcglobal.net
cornucopia-arts-inc.org
Cornucopia is an arts and wellness center run for and by people with mental health issues and their allies.
Through peership we promote growth and dignity by helping members develop
strengths and talents which build personal, professional, and community life skills.
Thinking of beginning or returning to work? How to balance mental health and career goals? Careers & Recovery can help! Although each of us develops our own Career Path, taking the journey with Peers who understand can help us conquer fears and overcome obstacles and share our successes! Designed by & for mental health peers/consumers - Set long & short-term goals - Develop positive self image - Find strengths, skills, interests - How work affects benefits - Develop a strong network - Cope with stress and triggers - Interviewing skills - Strategies for success at work Facilitated by Certified Peer Specialists with training & lived experience balancing mental health & career
Marni Roiniotis, CPS Karen Herro, BSN, RN, CPS Knowledgeable guest speakers answer your questions A chance to check in and share support Exercises & discussions help you define and focus on your strengths, skills and goals Starts in July at Cornucopia 1917 Winnebago Street Madison
$125 per person includes materials Ask your DVR counselor for assistance.
Funds may be available through other programs. Grassroots Empowerment Project may be able
to provide full or partial scholarships. To register, apply for a scholarship
or for more information, contact:608-515-6907 800-770-2002 marnicps@gmail.com
FoodShare application assistance Free, personalized, confidential help applying for FoodShare benefits (QUEST card).
Mondays 1:00-5:00 South Madison Library 2222 S Park St 877-366-3635
Wednesdays 3:00-6:00 (until Aug 21) Madison Public Library Hawthorne branch 2707 E Washington Av 877-366-3635
Life
Life is real
Life is short
Life can be mysterious
every day you wake up
- Candice Williams
Cornucopia staff/volunteers Liz Campbell, Kirstin Christianson, Jane Downing, Johnny Hearty, Karen Herro, Danuta Jakimowicz,
Kevin Kelly, Christine Kopish, Terri Nicewander, Kim Owens, Christina Vandenhouten
Accountant Kurt Haney Executive director Gregory Smith
Board of directors Pres. William Parke-Sutherland, V.P. Karen Herro, Sec. Tracy Miller, Treas. Steven J Thomas,
Elizabeth Campbell, Kevin Fosler, Danuta Jakimowicz, Matthew Strickland, Christina Vandenhouten
With support from Volunteer program sponsored in part by
Overture Center For the Arts.
Overture Center engages people
of every economic status, race, and culture,
and from every area of the community, in the arts.
Sponsor of clay at Cornucopia
918 Williamson St Madison
info@midwestclayproject.com
Sponsor for this season’s
Cornucopia gardeners
4062 Cty Rd A, Stoughton 53589
608-873-8329 www.theflowerfactorynursery.com
And the federal
Community Mental Health Block Grant,
administered by Wisconsin Devision of
Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services.
In 2014-15 the Wisc. State Budget includes $1.3 million
to open Three Regional Peer Run Respites
- each with a Warmline
WE HAVE WORK TO DO TO GET READY
LEARN FROM OTHER STATES
13 other states have peer-run respites. As we devel-
op our own peer-run respites in WI, we can use the
knowledge and experience of leaders from peer-run
respites in other states. To set the stage for our own
planning and development, GEP will host three edu-
cational conference calls. Each session will feature a
guest speaker from a peer-run respite who will share
their information and experience with us and re-
spond to our questions. We invite consumers, peers
and allies of peer-run respites to join us in learning
more about peer-run respites.
JULY 8 7:00 -8:30pm Jayme Lynch
Georgia Peer Support & Wellness Center in Decatur GA
JULY 10 2:00 -3:30 Gloria van den Burg
Alyssum Inc in Rochester VT
JULY 11 10:00 -11:30am Sera Davidow
AFIYA in Northampton MA
Conference Number for ALL Calls: 1 866 740 1260
Pass Code: 2065094#
GUIDELINES:
Because we anticipate many callers, we limit
introductions to the moderator and guest speaker.
Please call from a quiet environment,
and MUTE your phone unless you are asking a question.
During the question and answer period,
callers will need to take turns and wait to be recognized.
Hope You Can Make Some or All of the Calls!
“Nothing About Us Without Us”
Grassroots Empowerment Project Announces PEER DEVELOPMENT OF PEER-RUN RESPITES
These learning teleconferences will be followed by in-person Listening Sessions around Wisconsin to hear from you.
Eau Claire, Green Bay, Milwaukee, La Crosse, Washburn, Stevens Point, Madison: At Cornucopia, August 13th Tuesday 10:00 to 2:00
Watch for details next month.
Save the Date
United We Stand Wisconsin Presents
Empowerment Days 2013 August 27-29 Concourse Hotel, Madison Registration Fee: $30 Scholarships available for cost of hotel and food only
Start making your travel arrangements! Carpool assistance & driver incentives
Watch for the registration brochure, coming soon
Fair Use In accordance with Title 17 USC Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those
who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes.
Disability Pride Festival! Forward to possibility Saturday July 27 12:00 to 5:00 Brittingham Park, 401 S Brittingham Place, Madison
Discover new perspectives on experiences we all share. Challenge stereotypes about disabled people and our lives.
We are part of a talented, accomplished and vibrant community. Come together at Madison’s first Disability Pride Festival
to share talents, skills, arts, energy, and pride in being who we are. Build on a long tradition of disability pride celebrations around the world.
Accessible by public transit & wheelchair. ASL interpreted. Share this event with your friends and RSVP on our Facebook or Google Plus event pages.
To volunteer, contribute, or if you have questions, call 608-335-1180. Planning meeting Wednesday July 17 6:15 at Access To Independence
3810 Milwaukee St Www.DisabilityPrideMadison.com
The New York state SAFE Act, as of March 16, made it
mandatory that physicians, psychologists, registered nurses and
licensed clinical social workers report patients who are “likely to
engage in conduct that would result in serious harm to self or
others.”
“I’m really concerned that people will become fearful
about coming to services or maybe won’t access services ... or
they may be less forthcoming with clinicians,” said Sherrie Gil-
lette, director of community services at Clinton County Mental
Heath and Addiction Services.
According to the SAFE Act’s reporting stipulations,
a person’s behavior must justify the need for immediate action to
ensure the safety of the public and can include threats or attempts
at suicide or serious self-inflicted bodily harm or homicidal or
violent behavior toward others.
Mental-health professionals are required to use
“reasonable professional judgment” when deciding whether to
report someone. “It would mean a judgment call every single
time,” Gillette said.
Mental-health agencies eye new gun law
By FELICIA KRIEG June 18 Press-Republican, Plattasburgh NY
On April 1, attorney Jacqueline Kelleher of Platts-
burgh NY submitted a formal inquiry to the Office of Mental
Health regarding SAFE Act reporting. “There’s a lack of due
process” in the law, she said. People aren’t notified that they’re
being reported and aren’t given a chance to respond to the situ-
ation, Kelleher said. “I think there’s not a problem with gun
control, but it should be done fairly.”
The [federal] Health Insurance Portability and Ac-
countability Act (HIPAA) allows for informational disclosures
to be made without the patient’s consent if they are required by
law, the Office of Mental Health said. But it doesn’t seem that
straightforward, Trout said. “Attorneys have advised us that
the law doesn’t adequately address HIPAA.” BHSN will not
release any clinical information unless the patient consents to
it, he said.
In an emergency room or a psychiatric unit, it’s not
unusual for mental-health patients to say they want to hurt
themselves, Gillette said. That is often the reason people are
admitted into the hospital in the first place, Schmidt-Twiss
said. So, a “fair percentage” of mental-health patients at CVPH
are reported to Gillette, she said.
Privacy issues in mental health care still elusive June 19 By Elana Gordon newsworks.org
In the health arena, laws exist to ensure that person-
al health information is kept confidential. A mainstay of this
is the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountabil-
ity Act, known as HIPAA. According to Nadine Kaslow,
chief psychologist at Emery University School of Medicine
and president-elect of the American Psychological Associa-
tion, "HIPAA is vague ... under what conditions you can
share. You need to think about on the one hand protecting
the patient privacy, and on the other, ensuring the patient
gets the highest quality of care.”
For example, when is it all right for a therapist to
share information with others, such as a family member,
without breaching patient confidentiality? While that's justi-
fied in some emergencies, patient advocates want to be sure
that such information doesn't get in the wrong hands, and
that the stigma of mental illness doesn't prevent people from
getting care.
A bigger challenge, according to Dr. Arther Evans, com-
missioner for the Philadelphia Department of Behavioral Health
and Intellectual Disability Services, is that many practitioners
don't have a clear understanding of these privacy laws -- and even
misinterpret them.
"One example of that is that a family member calls up
and says, 'Is my father there?' or brother or sister, and the provider
says, 'I can't tell you anything,'" Evans said. "But [they] could say,
for example, 'I can't answer that question now, but if you give me
some information I will see if I can help you.' And so that gives
the person the opportunity to go back and engage in their treat-
ment."
Complicating the matter even more is that state and local
privacy laws may vary. Health reform rases the stakes on privacy
issues, with more people gaining access to mental health services
and dong so in different ways. These complexities make it hard
for consensus around one common approach.
Health Care Provider Records Fees
July 1, 2013 – June 30, 2014
Patient record fees are available at page 61 of
Wisconsin Administrative Register No. 690.
Under Wis. Stat. §146.83, the adjusted dollar amounts
that a health care provider may charge for providing
copies of a patient’s health care records are as follows:
Paper Copies
First 25 pages $1.04
Pages 26 to 50 $0.77
Pages 51 to 100 $0.52
Pages 101 and above $0.31
Microfiche or Microfilm (per page) $1.55
Print of an X−ray (per image) $10.32
If the requestor is not the patient or
a person authorized by the patient Certification of Copies $8.26
Retrieval Fee $20.65
Actual Shipping Costs and Any Applicable Taxes
For fee related questions: Please contact the Bureau of
Fiscal Services at 608−266−8217
For statute interpretation questions: Please contact the
Office of Legal Counsel at 608−266−0885
How The Federal Government Plans to
End Homelessness in Canada huffingtonpost.ca 04/26/2013
Housing First programs have been shown
across the Unites States to effectively end homeless-
ness by providing immediate access to housing and
then providing treatment and support services. Previ-
ously, individuals had to meet milestones (such as so-
briety and mental health counseling) just to be eligible
for housing.
In Canada, the largest randomized controlled
trial of its kind in the world on homelessness compared
Housing First to services as usual involving 2,255 par-
ticipants who were homeless across five Canadian cit-
ies (the At Home/Chez Soi study). The one-year results
indicate that HF is significantly more effective than
services as usual in providing stable housing for people
who had been homeless for years and who have com-
plex clinical needs.
For every two government dollars invested in
the HF program, one dollar was saved. Savings were
even greater for those who used services the most, three
dollars saved for every two dollars spent.
Housing First moves people rapidly from shel-
ters or the streets into stable housing and provides evi-
dence-based clinical and social supports to address so-
cial, mental health, health, addiction, educational, em-
ployment and other issues.
Providing services using a team approach and
coordinating housing, clinical, and social supports re-
duces fragmentation of services and improves collabo-
ration.
Priced Out in 2012 The Housing Crisis for People with Disabilities
c2013 Technical Assistance Collaborative Inc
www.tacinc.org/knowledge-resources/priced-out-findings
Supplemental Security Income (SSI) is the federal
program that assists people with significant and long-term
disabilities who have virtually no assets and – in most in-
stances – no other source of income.
Because of the huge disparity between SSI pay-ments and rental housing costs, the most vulnerable non-elderly adults in our nation are often forced to choose be-tween homelessness or placement in a segregated and re-strictive institutional setting, such as an Adult Care Home, nursing home, or other congregate setting. People with disabilities ‘housed’ in institutional settings disappear from the public eye. SSI recipients who manage to rent a lower cost
unit are likely to be living in seriously substandard hous-
ing, in a dangerous neighborhood, or using all of their
income to pay their landlord each month. People in these
circumstances are at great risk of homelessness and con-
stantly struggle to meet other basic needs, such as food,
transportation, and clothing.
The average annual income of a single individual
receiving SSI payments was $8,714 – equal to 19% of the
national median income for a one-person household and
almost 22% below the 2012 federal poverty level. [In Wis-
consin in 2012, 75 thousand SSI recipients received
monthly payments of $781, 20% of median income.
1-bedroom apartment rent was 75% of SSI payment, effi-
ciency apartment 63% of SSI.]
SSI supplements funded by 21 states provided
additional income to people with disabilities who were
living independently in the community and receiving fed-
eral SSI. [Wisconsin supplement was $83.78.] Even with
this additional income, SSI recipients were still unable to
afford the rents charged for modestly priced units across
those 21 states.
(Continued next page)
Permanent Supportive Housing
Permanent supportive housing combines afforda-
ble housing (Housing Choice Voucher, public housing,
etc.) with services and supports financed by Medicaid or
state-funded programs.
Olmstead and Chronic Homelessness In June 1999, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in Olmstead vs. L.C. – an ADA action brought against the State of Georgia by two women with SSI-level incomes who remained confined to a state psychiatric institution even though they wanted to move back to the community, and their doctors had determined they could live in the community with appropriate services and sup-ports. Since the Olmstead decision legal advocates, as well as the U.S. Department of Justice, have initiated success-ful Olmstead litigation or ADA investigations in a number of states. Olmstead Settlement Agreements negotiated in
recent years call for creation of 30,000-40,000 new perma-
nent supportive housing opportunities. The extreme
housing affordability gap for the lowest-income people
with disabilities is a significant barrier to implementing
these agreements – and for states trying to avoid ADA
litigation.
Shortage of ELI Housing
From the early 1970s until the mid-1990s, HUD’s annual budget funded 4.3 million subsidized housing resources for households with ELI-level incomes, includ-ing SSI recipients. Over the past 20 years, the supply of HUD subsidized housing has only increased to 4.6 mil-lion. Instead of focusing on needs of the poorest Ameri-cans, growth in the affordable housing sector has primar-ily benefited households above 30% of Area Median In-come, through federal programs such as HOME and the Low Income Housing Tax Credit program.
Cuts in Supportive Housing Between 1995 and 2011, new units created by HUD’s Section 811 Supportive Housing – which assists people with disabilities to leave institutional settings – declined 80 percent. New supportive housing units creat-ed each year through HUD’s Homeless Assistance pro-grams declined 50% over the past decade. This has contributed to the increase in the num-
ber of younger people with disabilities who live in nurs-
ing homes and other segregated facilities, and people
with disabilities who are homeless or at-risk of homeless-
ness. The situation has made it impossible for families to
make long-term plans for their adult children with disa-
bilities who still live at home with aging parents. Efforts
to expand community-based services and supports
through Medicaid and the DHHS Money Follows the Per-
son Demonstration program, are also affected by the lack
of decent, safe and accessible housing affordable to people
with SSI-level incomes.
Policy Recommendations
by Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities Housing
Task Force and Technical Assistance Collaborative
Federal rental assistance – meaning a permanent
subsidy that helps renters pay no more than 30% of their
income for housing – is the key to solving the housing cri-
sis documented in Priced Out studies over the past 14
years. Federal rent subsidy programs currently reach only
1 of 4 eligible households. This translates into long waiting
lists at Public Housing Agencies (PHAs) and a critical
shortage of permanent supportive housing opportunities
for the most vulnerable people with disabilities who have
SSI-level incomes.
Providing housing assistance to people with the
most significant and long-term disabilities is more cost
effective than funding restrictive institutional settings or
allowing people to remain homeless.
Expand the New Section 811 Project Rental Assistance
Demonstration TAC and CCD call on Congress to pro-
vide sufficient funding over the next five years to expand
HUD’s innovative Section 811 PRA approach to all 50
states and DC.
Fund the Goals and Strategies in the Federal Opening
Doors Plan In 2010, the U.S. Interagency Council pub-
lished Opening Doors, the first ever federal strategic plan to
prevent and end homelessness. HUD’s Homeless Assis-
tance programs and the HUD-Veterans Affairs Supportive
Housing (HUD-VASH) program are critically important to
achieving the goals in Opening Doors. Provide Funding for Full Utilization of HUD’s Main-
stream Housing Programs Limits on federal discretionary
spending are seriously eroding the number of households
that can be assisted. Public Housing Authorities don’t
have enough capital funding to make essential repairs.
PHA administrative funding has also been cut.
Expand Housing Opportunities for SSI Recipients through the National Housing Trust Fund The National Housing Trust Fund (NHTF) was authorized by Congress in 2008 as the first permanent federal housing program that is not subject to annual discretionary appropriations, and targeted to ELI households. Because of this income targeting, the NHTF could benefit people with disabilities who rely on SSI payments, and would be the ideal pro-gram to use with the Section 811 PRA Demonstration pro-gram.
(From previous page)
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