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Achieving the Promise: Transforming Mental Health Care in America, Executive Summary

The President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health

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Describes a strategy for mental health care transformation that ensures services and supports that actively facilitate recovery and build resilience. Identifies six goals of transformation and showcases model programs to illustrate goals in practice.

Pub id: SMA03-3831
Publication Date: 1/2003
Popularity: 252
Format: Report
Audience: Policymakers, Researchers, Public Officials, Public Health Professionals, Program Planners, Administrators, & Project Managers
Population Group: People with Mental Health Problems as Population Group

Tags: Prejudice & Discrimination Mental Health Transformation Health Disparities Recovery Mental Illness Access to Care Treatment Health & Health Care-Related Laws

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02/01/2012 9:22 PM

Anonymous customer said:

The Mental Health Community relentlessly pursued and successfully achieved mental health insurance parity. The same importance and effort must be applied to achieve The President¿s Commission on Mental Health Report¿s ¿Critical¿ issues; i.e., a center of responsibility, resources alignment and application of secure information technology, to improve the delivery of treatment and services for all people affected by mental illness.