Open Session

Committee on Depression, Parental Practices, and the Healthy Development of Young Children

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

The National Academies

Keck Center, Keck 100

500 Fifth Street, NW

Washington, DC 20001

PROGRAM

1:30 pm           Background and Overview of Open Session

                        …Mary Jane England, MD, Committee Chair

1:40 pm           Study Sponsors Perspective (20 minutes each)

·        The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

…Elaine Cassidy, PhD

·        The Annie E. Casey Foundation

…Patrick Chaulk, MD

·        The California Endowment

…Gwen Foster

·        The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

…Larke Huang, PhD

3:15 pm           Identify Key Audiences

3:30 pm           Lessons Learned from the Institute of Medicine’s Study on Improving the Quality of Health Care for Mental and Substance-Use Conditions

                        …Mary Jane England, MD

                        …Jane Knitzer, EdD

4:00 pm           Invited Stakeholder Perspectives (5 minutes each)

·        The National Association of Community Health Centers

…David M. Stevens, MD, FAAFM

·        The American Psychiatric Association

…William Narrow, MD

·        The American Academy of Pediatrics

…Thomas Sullivan, MD, FAAP

·        Mental Health America

…Diana Morales, MPH

5:00 pm           End of Open Session

This meeting is being held to gather information to help the committee conduct its study. This committee will examine the information and material obtained during this, and other public meetings, in an effort to inform its work. Although opinions may be stated and lively discussion may ensue, no conclusions are being drawn at this time; no recommendations will be made. In fact, the committee will deliberate thoroughly before writing its summary of the workshop and final project report. Moreover, once the draft summary is written, it must go through a rigorous review by experts who are anonymous to the committee, and the committee then must respond to this review with appropriate revisions that adequately satisfy the Academy's Report Review committee and the chair of the NRC before it is considered an NRC report. Therefore, observers who draw conclusions about the committee's work based on today's discussions will be doing so prematurely.

Furthermore, individual committee members often engage in discussion and questioning for the specific purpose of probing an issue and sharpening an argument. The comments of any given committee member may not necessarily reflect the position he or she may actually hold on the subject under discussion, to say nothing of that person's future position as it may evolve in the course of the project. Any inferences about an individual’s position regarding findings or recommendations in the final report are therefore also premature.