director, center for substance abuse prevention, substance abuse and mental health services administration, u.s. department of health and human services, rockville, md; jane callahan, director, national community anti-drug coalition institute, community anti-drug coalitions of america, alexandria, va; jordan burnham, mental health advocate, active minds inc., washington, dc; dr. wendy greene, assistant director of trauma and critical care and program developer, screening, brief interventions and referral to treatment program, howard university hospital, washington, dc. fran, what is the definition of behavioral health, and how do we distinguish between prevention, early intervention, and treatment within that definition? the definition for behavioral health for samhsa is we are taking the substance abuse and mental health prevention, intervention, and treatment programs, and we are encasing it within the disorder realm. so substance abuse, prevention, intervention, and treatment are exactly the same, same levels, and so is mental health. we are finding that mental health properties for prevention, especially, are very similar

absolutely want to help you improve the cities of california, and we want to help kurds schulz, the regional director of the u.s. department of health and human services, and improve the diet of california. and i would like to hand it over to him. >> thank you. i have followed the mayor and now tim again. i like that. thank you for the microphone. i want to say a couple of things this morning and try and be brief, which can be difficult. first of all, on behalf of the obama -- obama administration, i am presidential appointee and my boss is secretary kathleen sebelius. she knows that i was going to be here this morning. on behalf of the secretary of the u.s. department of health and human services, i want to congratulate the bayview community. i want to congratulate fresh & easy and san francisco, so give yourself a round of applause. [applause] you know, we hear too often the term these days food desserts. 10% of our communities and united states are considered food deserts. that means amenities like bayview, who now have ensured, working with fresh & easy, that you are a youdest no more. there is access to fresh, nutritious, and affordable food. tod

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u.s. department of health and human services [music] so, screening and brief intervention is what we call a secondary prevention approach. so, it is a way of intercepting people who might be already engaging in risky substance abuse behavior and trying to reduce their abuse and reduce the harm that they might experience from their substance use. we decided to do our intervention in this mental health clinic. and that's something that hadn't been done before, so we decided to use this very brief screening and brief intervention tool called the assist. it is the alcohol smoking and substance involvement screening test, which was developed by the world health organization. well, we use the assist results in intervention planning quite immediately; that is part of the beauty of the assist, that it has kind of a built-in intervention that, based on the score that is deduced from the eight questions of the assist, you are kind of guided to do a validating response, a brief intervention, or an intervention with kind of a referral to treatment or a discussion about kind of getting further treatme

u.s. department of health and human services. [music] the mission of the new start program is to provide treatment opportunities for incarcerated males in the orange county jail system. the program is designed to treat them while they are in custody and continue their treatment into the community at whatever level of care it is that they need for at least 1 year postcustody. the phoenix house provides that treatment. they provide continuing care, a group counseling. they provide fellowship. basically an all-encompassing kind of program from beginning to end, which really enables a person a really, really good shot at making it. what makes this project unique from other projects in southern california is it is an in-custody program, but there is a continuum of care once someone is released from custody, and there is a team that works with these individuals when they are in custody and then follows up outside. it also includes family members. so that is the very important piece of this. once they begin to realize there is a possibi

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and distinguished members of the committee. i am dr. howard koh assistant secretary for health of the u.s. department of health and human services. very pleased to be joined there by my colleague dr. sandy kweder deputy director of the office of new drugs. as you have already heard, the growing problem of drug shortages is a troubling situation and one that the department and the secretary take very seriously. this growing trend has a potential to impact on our entire health care system and as we discussed this problem today, we should always remember our goal is to protect the health of people affected most by the shortages, patients and their families, and i say that as a physician who has cared for patients for over 30 years. according to the of d.a. center for drug of vibration and research, the number of drug shortages has been rising steadily over the last five years as you have already heard and although shortages can occur with any drug, generic, sterile injectables currently make up the largest increase of the sharon impact and 2010 some 74% of of the shortages involved these older sterile injectable agents. so these inc

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