Meeting

Open Session Agenda

Beckman Center Auditorium
Irvine, California

April 14, 2008

8:00 am
Registration

8:30 am
Welcome Remarks
Mary Jane England, MD, Committee Chair

8:35 am
Session I: Integration of Mental Health, Parenting, and Child Development Services in Medical and Other Care Settings

Objective: Explore the identification, screening, treatment, or referral for depression in parents in a variety of medical and other settings (OB/GYN, Pediatrics, Family Practice, Community Mental Health, Community Health Centers) that serve women, children, and families; the interface or integration of MH services for depression in primary care through county-government service structure; and capacity building to facilitate better access to quality services in these settings

Elizabeth Howell, MD, Panel Moderator and Committee Member
Laura Miller, MD, University of Illinois at Chicago, UIC Women's Mental Health Program
Cynthia Minkovitz, MD, MPP, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Allen Dietrich, MD, Dartmouth Medical School, MacArthur Foundation Initiative on Depression & Primary Care
Amy Russell, MD, Clinica Campesina, Colorado
Patrick Finley, PharmD, BCPP, Discussant and Committee Member

10:25 am
Break

10:45 am
Session II: Unmet Needs and Challenges in Addressing Depression in Parents

Objective: Explore issues which create unique challenges to providing quality mental health services for depression for parents and their children, particularly for a diverse society and in care settings alternate to medical settings

Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, MD, PhD, Panel Moderator and Committee Member
Barbara Yawn, MD, MSc, FAAFP, Olmstead Medical Center and the University of Minnesota
Sandra Naylor-Goodwin, PhD, California Institute for Mental Health
William Vega, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
Kenneth Wells, MD, MPH, University of California, Los Angeles (Jeanne Miranda presenting)

12:30 pm
Working Lunch
Topic: Report dissemination and implementation

1:30 pm
Session III: Innovative Models: Integrating Parenting, Mental Health Services for Depression, and Child Development

Objective: Exploration of innovative service-level programs/models to address issues related to parenting, depression, and child development in multiple sectors with a variety of community-based programs

Constance Hammen, PhD, Panel Moderator and Committee member
Jeanne Miranda, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
Deborah Saunders, Illinois Office of Healthcare and Family Services
Paula Zeanah, PhD, MSN, RN, Tulane University, Louisiana
The Honorable Cindy Lederman, J.D., Administrative Judge Juvenile Court, Eleventh Judicial Circuit, Dade County, Florida
Joanne Nicholson, PhD, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Center for Mental Health Services Research

3:15 pm
Break

3:30 pm
Session IV: Policy, Legislation, and Financing

Objective: Exploration of infrastructural barriers that facilitate or impede the implementation or replication of promising or best practices at any level (regional, state, multi-state, national) or for larger-scale implementation in a variety of settings

Mary Jane England, MD, Panel Moderator and Committee Chair
Emily Nahat, Prevention and Early Intervention, California Department of Mental Health
Neva Kaye, National Academy for State Health Policy
William Arroyo, MD, Department of Mental Health, Los Angeles County
Neal Adams, MD, MPH, California Institute for Mental Health

5:15 pm
Closing Remarks and Adjournment
Mary Jane England, MD, Committee Chair