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Residents invited to public health forum
Nationally, people with mental health problems, developmental disabilities, and substance use disorders all face greater difficulties in obtaining “quality, affordable, health care” when compared with people without those problems. They are more likely to have a chronic physical health problem, get less than optimal care, more likely to need emergency care and die younger of a health-related problems.
On Thursday, from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Columbia County Human Services Building, 325 Columbia Street, the Columbia County Community Services Board (CC-CSB) in conjunction with the Columbia County Department of Human Services (CC-DHS) hosts a public forum to highlight concerns and seek solutions to improve physical health care and access problems for our community members. The Public Forum on Physical Health Care is being held to hear local concerns, challenges, ideas and solutions in meeting the physical health care needs of our community members struggling with addiction, mental illness, developmental and intellectual disabilities.
The Columbia County Community Services Board (CSB) is responsible, through New York State Mental Hygiene law, for assessing the needs of three disability populations: chemically dependent, mentally ill and the intellectually/developmentally disabled. This year the Community Services Board will address the priority of physical health care. The CSB sponsors the forum to gather local testimony about concerns, challenges, ideas and solutions related to the needs of our community members struggling with addiction, mental illness, developmental and intellectual disabilities.
The Community Services Board has extended an invitation through various public and private channels of communications, to encourage public participation in this important needs assessment process.
The forum is composed of professionals, consumer advocates, and local leaders who will witness the testimony and ask questions of those individuals who are presenting in person. Panelists scheduled to participate include: Dr. Nancy Hoag, CSB Chairperson; Dr. Michael O’Leary, Columbia County Director of Community Services: Michael Leonard Alcohol and Substance Abuse Subcommittee Chair; Alan Skerrett Mental Health Subcommittee Chair; Diane Whiteman Mental Retardation Developmental Disabilities Subcommittee Chair; Dr. Jeffrey Arp-Sandel Family Physician and CSB physician member; Dr. Norman Chapin, MD, MBA. Columbia Memorial Hospital Medical Director Nancy Winch RN M.S. Columbia County Public Health Director.
Following the formal public hearing, the testimonials will be reviewed and summarized. Salient points will be developed into questions, recommendations and outstanding issues. The analysis will be forwarded to our local and State government representatives as well as our state mental hygiene commissioners for a response. The findings of the public hearing will be presented and discussed at a public meeting on Friday, Oct. 23, from 2 to 4 p.m. at Columbia-Greene Community College in lecture center 206. The public meeting is designed to provide county and state government officials an opportunity to respond to the issues brought forward in the Public Forum on Physical Health Care for Persons with Disabilities.
On Thursday, from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Columbia County Human Services Building, 325 Columbia Street, the Columbia County Community Services Board (CC-CSB) in conjunction with the Columbia County Department of Human Services (CC-DHS) hosts a public forum to highlight concerns and seek solutions to improve physical health care and access problems for our community members. The Public Forum on Physical Health Care is being held to hear local concerns, challenges, ideas and solutions in meeting the physical health care needs of our community members struggling with addiction, mental illness, developmental and intellectual disabilities.
The Columbia County Community Services Board (CSB) is responsible, through New York State Mental Hygiene law, for assessing the needs of three disability populations: chemically dependent, mentally ill and the intellectually/developmentally disabled. This year the Community Services Board will address the priority of physical health care. The CSB sponsors the forum to gather local testimony about concerns, challenges, ideas and solutions related to the needs of our community members struggling with addiction, mental illness, developmental and intellectual disabilities.
The Community Services Board has extended an invitation through various public and private channels of communications, to encourage public participation in this important needs assessment process.
The forum is composed of professionals, consumer advocates, and local leaders who will witness the testimony and ask questions of those individuals who are presenting in person. Panelists scheduled to participate include: Dr. Nancy Hoag, CSB Chairperson; Dr. Michael O’Leary, Columbia County Director of Community Services: Michael Leonard Alcohol and Substance Abuse Subcommittee Chair; Alan Skerrett Mental Health Subcommittee Chair; Diane Whiteman Mental Retardation Developmental Disabilities Subcommittee Chair; Dr. Jeffrey Arp-Sandel Family Physician and CSB physician member; Dr. Norman Chapin, MD, MBA. Columbia Memorial Hospital Medical Director Nancy Winch RN M.S. Columbia County Public Health Director.
Following the formal public hearing, the testimonials will be reviewed and summarized. Salient points will be developed into questions, recommendations and outstanding issues. The analysis will be forwarded to our local and State government representatives as well as our state mental hygiene commissioners for a response. The findings of the public hearing will be presented and discussed at a public meeting on Friday, Oct. 23, from 2 to 4 p.m. at Columbia-Greene Community College in lecture center 206. The public meeting is designed to provide county and state government officials an opportunity to respond to the issues brought forward in the Public Forum on Physical Health Care for Persons with Disabilities.
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