department of health and human services. before, addiction and depression kept me from living my life. now, every step i take in recovery benefits everyone. there are many options that make the road to recovery more accessible. it begins with the first step. join the voices for recovery. for information and treatment referral for you or someone you love, call 1-800-662-help. brought to you by the u.s. department of health and human services. [music] like a lot of people experiencing mental illness kind of later in life, i really, my symptoms became profound in my 30s. i started having these mood swings, so i decided i should go see a doctor. and i went to my regular doctor, who examined me, but he was not really familiar with psychiatrics and he just said you need a vacation. so i minimized the whole idea in my mind and i continued to get worse and eventually really destroyed my company that i owned at the time. my next step into mental health was that i ended up in a psychiatric hospital. and if we had had the type of care t

department of health and human services. [music] a little over 7 years ago i was sleeping underneath of a bridge on the streets for 19 years eating out of a trash can, going in and out of correctional and mental health systems. i racked up 83 arrest and 66 convictions all due to my substance abuse because i was trying to cope with the trauma that had happened in my life. and i would go in and out of prison, and they would say, "this is how you're going to spend the rest of your life, or you're going to die in the streets." once i was able to go to a program where my trauma was addressed, the tamar children program, my trauma was identified, addressed, and treated. i was able to change my belief system from "i am nothing" to "i am somebody," and i can be anything i want in this world. see, when my belief system changed, my thought process changed. and i started to make the best decisions based on me believing that i was worth a better life. dr. harris, let's focus a little bit on issues of trauma for children and youth. you've

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

department of health and human services. they tell me i was there, but i don't remember. i don't know where i really was. i do not know what i had for breakfast. i do not know who won the game. i don't recognize this man. if you or someone you know is struggling with a drug or alcohol problem, there is a solution-recovery. call 1-800-662-help for information and for hope. through treatment, my life is a whole lot brighter now. brought to you by the u.s. department of health and human services. [music] columbus house provides shelter, emergency shelter services to single men and women. and we do that year round, we are most known for that service. in terms of the soar project, we are targeting folks who are in our shelter and who are living outside, unfortunately, living outside but are engaged with our outreach and engagement team. soar stands for ssi, ssdi, outreach, access, and recovery. it's a project that started in 2005 when the federal government was holding policy academies to address homelessness across the country. a

of the places where individuals can go and get help because there are so many pieces to this. richard, you were talking about the office of national coordinator? yes. inside of the department of health and human services there's an office that is in charge of all the health information technology and they give grants to states and they have worked with individual providers to sort of really bolster the expansion and the responsible use of health information technology. and they are very sensitive to the issues of behavioral health consumers that were brought up. and so it is really that office, the office of national coordinator for health information technology where people should contact with these issues. but john, there is also other offices that provide the consumer with information as to how to reach the exchanges, talk about the health homes, talk about all of the other components, correct? yes. out of the office of the secretary, out of hhs, there is a web site, a very good web site around the affordable care act. and it is incredibly user friendly, provides information about the act. it is also being populated now with information that is state specific about what is being covered and insuran

and by the department of health and human services own requirement, the contract was supposed to go to a small business. that's when the department of health and human services did something pretty interesting. the government changed the terms of the bidding, making sure any company, even large ones like siga, could go after the contract. then health and human services determined that siga was the only bidder that actually qualified. >> do you feel because some very large democratic supporters of the white house, ron perlman, andy stern were involved with that company, that this has the impression of a political payoff? >> i'm not going to comment about people drawing conclusions about the appearances of this contract. i want to get into the facts. >> reporter: according to documents obtained by cnn, that's not the only question to be asked. because internal documents reveal a profit return that one health and human services official called outrageous. how much? on march 18th of this year, a contracting offer questions siga's return on investment, which he writes is an overwhelming 180

department of health and human services. rate. been a great year hereeat fox45.we added an extra hour of coverage tooour morning show."good day baltimoree made its debut last january.i got married, patrice got engaggd, and we've had tons of memorable moments along the way.we've been counting down our top five.... let's recap... number 5 - back in septemmer- green screen 3 - in october- this was the result oo a pigskin predictions bet between the mayor and patrice number 3 --patrice came back to wook onn monday in october with a &pnumber 2 testing out fitness christmas - gifts - a viewer avorite and our number onn moment is.. is......... 3 - our director karen spooked patrice on halloween. ii you'd like to see all of our producer's picks for the best moments of the year... just go to our website foxbaltimore dot com slash morning and look under the "producer picks" list. 33 33 ((break 8)) 3

of myself. narrator: you have many reasons to stay healthy. exercise and physical activity can help. so that national institute on aging at nih, of the u.s. department of health and human servicesnow excercise three times a week. narrator: featuring exercises you can do anywhere. irene: i can really go. narrator: find our more, visit nia.hih.gov/go4life. >> welcome back to "our world with black enterprise." are men and women equal in our society? where do we stand on genteder justice? here to talk about it is assistant professor of english and africana studies in university of pennsylvania and co-founder of "long walk home." award-winning filmmaker maker, and a kiba solomon. thank you all for joining us. >> thank you. >> there's so much conversation today about race. even if people don't like it they're talking about race, they're talking about poverty and economics. one thing that rarely gets talked about are issues of gender. what's going on? why is that? >> i think the basic answer to the question is that men and women, like you said, the question is part of the value the same and men and women aren't the same in our society and it's not unique to the united states and i thi

of course, teamed up for this investigation. and as you know, we took our questions to the u.s. government, only to find u.s. agencies referring us to each other. the secretary of the department of health and human serviceseclined our request for an interview, but we did sit down with robert nelson of the food and drug administration, which regulates drugs in this country. and, we ask him, who is going to lead the charge? who is going to do it? it seems as if every time to you talk to someone, it's someone else's problem, and -- >> well, the local foster care systems have to put that in place. >> reporter: is it time to issue a wakeup call about the use of these drugs in children? >> well, i certainly think people should be well aware of what's going on and begin to look into it. i'm not -- i'd be curious to hear what you think a wakeup call would be and what that might look like. >> reporter: you're the fda. >> i know this is an issue that has been discussed and obviously we're well aware of it. whether an fda advisory or some sort of announcement would have an impact, i think, would be a possibility to consider. >> reporter: you're sitting at home at night alone. which agency do you blame? >> well -- i

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

for the year. >> i think the -- one of the things the report calls for is the strong partnership between the dod and the va and the department of health and human servicesd the department of health and human services has taken on somewhat of the cause of family tracking. and i think we need to work closer together. >> but i just would remind everybody, i can't make a family member report a suicide or even attempted suicide. that's one thing that lies outside have our ability even in the military. so i look with suspect even the numbers that i'm collecting. [inaudible] >> i believe it, among officers and nco wives and we have to get our messaging that -- oh, microphone, sorry. okay. thank you. steve, i believe? >> i'd like to thank you for the report. it's going to spark a lot of conversation. meg, this question's for you. military leaders must eliminate stigma. and eliminating stigma must include a multipronged approach which include accountability. on page 10 of the report, you said that military leaders must be held accountable. so my question is, what do you think accountability is? and i'd like to ask the same question to general chiarelli. what's a

a lot of the big departments, epa, health and human services, there regulations and telling everyone what to do. is there a way to cut that out and eliminated or cut it back? >> that is a darn good question. one of the challenges with too many regulators and bureaucrats is the create too many bureaucracies that become struggling for our lives and our economies. when i went into the state of massachusetts, i looked at our department of health and human services. we have 15 different agencies within the department. i said, can we not combine them? we got them into three different groups and that allowed us to have fewer lawyers, if your public relations or press secretaries. we were able to take out some of the overhead. he had some agencies like transportation and the environmental agency, the were always at each other's throats and arguing with each other. i said to we put them together? i put one person in charge of the three to make them work together and become more effective. we look back over my record in massachusetts for four years, and we did something i do not think many stat

of problem autos nation's new health care overhaul promised free checkups aimed at keeping america healthy but some are finding out prepreventative care isn't so free. department of health and human services offer tips to avoid costs. you can call the 800 number on the back of the card and ask if your plan must comply with affordable health care act fu. see an unexpected charge ask if a bill was submitted as pry vent tiff or a treatment. >> the "new york times" is apologizing after accidentally sending a notice of cancellation to eight million people urging recipients to reconsider subscribing to the times at a discounted rate, meant only for 300 people but was sent out to millions who had shared their address was the paper. in a follow thup afternoon the times said this. quote, this e mail was sent in error. we apologize for confusion this may have caused. >> and 2011 has been the year for tech shake ups. counting back to top five of the year, but first, apple's plan to crush competition with patents. let's go tloif bloomberg west with today's after the bell report. hi, john. >> good afternoon. yeah. apple continues to pile up on patents. this week awarded over a dozen new patents, all t

second, on october 14th, the department of health and human services completes a review of the classnal plan for long-term care insurance, and essentially ditches the idea, and then third, finally, on december 19th, the supreme court announces that it will hear an unprecedented week's worth of arguments to determine whether the healthcare overhaul is constitutional. dr. marc siegl is a member of the fox news medical a team and a professor of medicine. and dr. kathleen london is a family practice physician and assistant prov professor. thank you for joining us. i want to go through this piece by piece, the points we made. the first point being that 30% of employees would definitely or probably stop offering insurance to their employees. dr. siegel i'll begin with you. not a good thing. >> i think m mckinsey is a very valuable firm that people pay attention to. they looked at 1300 companies. i don't know if that is the exact percentage. i think the point here is that it's probably likely that some percentage, a significant percentage of employers are going to dump their employees on to

americans needed food stamps you applied for them she was denied by rick perry's texas department of health and human services she also was mentally ill and had been untreated for that for years because she had at no access to it to insurance or free mental health resources she killed one of her kids the other kid is near death she killed herself right there in the welfare office when she was denied the food stamps forty six million americans at the end of the rope just you know just getting by on food stamps and rick santorum comes out and says we shouldn't have food stamps in this country because there are too many obese people what the hell is going on what is going on with this you know this or this story is offensive to me and not big just because of the fact that people died but because right now i mean you're using it as a political tool in order to swing a need for more food stamp than maybe beneath the idea if you call it this is like when you had having merivale and blame for gabby giffords shooting it is that absurd this man this woman was mentally ill we were in all of her bad situation in this co

the department of health and human services said, no, here's your money. news report indicates small businesses asked the administration to set up a review process to stop the government entities and the unions from consuming all of this early retiree program money. well, according to the g.a.o. report, the administration refused. they decided to distribute early retiree subsidies on a first come, first-come, first served basis. the g.a.o. findings and the house energy commerce report suggested the obama administration used the early retiree reinsurance program to reward its political allies. these two reports suggest this administration did so by directing most of the program's resources to plans serving unionized auto and government workers. this is based on the administration's own data, based on the administration's data, nearly half of the entire $5 billion program will be spent on just 20 entities. and it is fascinating that the most money of all, the most money of all went to the united auto workers retiree medical benefits trust. how much did the un

drew levinson has more on today's unusual decision by the department of health and human services. >> reporter: the nation's health secretary has stopped the morning after pill from being more widely distributed. in a surprise move, health and human services secretary kathleen sibealuous, overruled an fda plan that would have allowed plan b emergency contraception to be sold over the counter to young women. instead, teenagers, under 17, will still need a prescription to buy it. the move disappoints women's health advocates. >> as an ob/gyn and the father of a daughter, i find this really to be mind-boggling. make nose sense whatever. >> reporter: the pill can be taken within three days after unprotected sex. sebelius says it is safe and effective but says younger girls may not understand how to use t. >> we think that removing that necessary medical screening and that interaction with the medical professional is not in the interest of young women's health. >> reporter: the company that makes plan b, had hoped with the company's approval, it would be able to put the pill on store shelv

now montgomery county councilman says he is working with the department of health and human services to make sure everyone in the camp has access to the services the county provides for homeless people and they want them in a shelter versus out in the woods. >> coming up, police want to know why three cowboys on horse back settled into a colorado safeway. but up next, man behind the wheel of his pickup truck takes aim at his exgirlfriend while she was inside a convenience store. >>> and don't forget, we are always on at wusa9.com. stay with us, we're back in a minute. >>> all right, caught on tape, amazing surveillance video from a convenience store outside of nashville. a man plowed into this market trying to run down his exgirlfriend. the video shows he misses the woman, but he hits the store owner, crushing her under debris. amazing pictures. somehow the owner emerges. walks away with just bumps and bruises. the pickup driver ran from the store, stole an suv, and he is now in critical condition after colliding head on with a bread truck. he faces criminal charges. >> at least. >> a

he's in a vehicle with a major channel of their from frederick and they come down to several top departments in washington, department of health and human services, they go over with paul wolfowitz, at the pentagon. and then that same night they were called into the white house and briefed several cabinet officials in the white house that is the true and. to have been chemically treated with bentonite which, of course, was regarded as an indicator, a signal of saddam hussein's biochemical warfare program. that will wrong conclusion and that scientist by the way, peter, ultimately conceded to me i think to his credit that he was wrong. and that he was opining really out of his way, and he defers to the experts. the fbi laboratory engaged one of the national labs in the country, performed the most far-reaching analyses of the attack material that has been done to date, and conclusively established that material was not treated with any chemical. >> other questions? >> was there a final piece of evidence that allowed them to catch them? or was just the buildup of a lot of things? >> that case as doctor adams said in his introduction, rest on a comb

new hampshire right-to-life says the department of health and human services has ignored its freedom of information request. a $1 million grant was given to family planning clinics in september despite a vote by the state's executive council to reject federal money for clinics providing abortions. >>> some republican lawmakers sent a letter to the irs questioning the aarp's abilities to shield hundreds of millions of dollars in income by claiming tax exempt status. jim angle reports on how it's allegedly being done. >> republican members on the house ways and means committee want the irs to examine how the aarp rakes in revenues from medical companies that use its names. >> they're trying to manage these companies to increase their revenue. >> republican critics note aarp's income just from united healthcare skyrocketed from 2007 to 2009, even as the recession was hitting. >> from $284 million to $427 million, over a 50% increase. >> and in 2010, revenues soared to $670 million. aarp avoids taxes on that and other income by classifying it as royalties, also known as passive income. a

so today the department of health and human services said, no, we're not going to let younger women just waltz in and get it. they will still need a prescription. >> so kathleen sebelius is saying no? >> the weirdness is, her own agency, the food and drug administration said, yes, we think women under 17 should be able to waltz in and get it off the shelf in the same way that you can get a condom. so it was kathleen sebelius essentially disagreeing with her own people. >> does this affect all women? >> it does in a way. because right now if a woman over 17 wants to get this drug, they have to go to the pharmacist and the pharmacist has to get it from behind the shelf. you have to ask for it and go and get it and that's because they don't want young teenagers to just go and get it. does that make sense? >> yes. >> so you still have to ask? >> you still have to ask. but if the government said, yeah, anybody could get it, they would put it out on the shelves along with the condoms and everything else. if this had happened differently today, plan b would have been on the shelf and you would

and i want to get the other agenda items in time. supervisor wiener: before we proceed, there are two represented this from the department of public health and human services agency that i would like to bring up. they are not the public comment. okubo from dph. phil arnold. if you could come up to address the committee on behalf of your departments. >> phil arnold, a deputy director for finance and administration for the human services agency. we have some issues -- five issues -- with the custodial section of this revised ordinance. the first issue we have is the deletion of the section that applies to contractors to provide training to disabled persons. we have a contract with the arc of san francisco, which does provide some custodial and recycling services to our agency. it employs approximately five developmentally-disabled persons. we pay the contractor a flat rate. i do not think -- i do not know -- but i do not think a flat rate is the prevailing wage. it also includes supervision and administration of the contract. that is one of our issues. supervisor wiener: the minimum wage in san francisco is now -- is about to go to $10.25, if i'm not mistake

of the center for youth wellness and advocacy. it's a partnership with the mayor's office, the district attorney's office, the child adolescent support advocacy and resource center, the city attorney's office, department of public health, human services agency, and the police department. all with the goal of providing integrated pediatric, mental and psychological health services to youth and their families who are experiencing trauma. as many of you know, district 10 not only has a high concentration of youth and families but historically suffered from lack of access to adequate medical care and wraparound mental health services. the supervisor believes and our office strongly believes that this project is desperately needed in order to support the growing population in the district, and also not only to serve the growing youth and children population but the population of youth and children as the city as a whole. so dr. burke and katie are here who can walk through the project with you in greater detail. and they can take over. >> my name is dr. nadine burke harris. recently got married. >> congratulationings. >> thank you. i am the founding physician of the cpmc child bayview health center and was until july of this year the medi

and on wednesday, in a surprise move, the obama administration overruled a decision by the scientists of the food and drug administration. the department of health and human serviceshe morning after pill available to anybody over-the-counter without restriction regardless of age. and kathleen sebelius said the data provided as the studies are not sufficient to supporting making plan 1b available to all girls 16 and younger. and then the fda said there is adequate reasonable, well supported and science-based evidence that plan about b one-step -- >> it was unprecedented for them to overrule. it's a terrible decision, which i think we will talk more about. president obama followed up on it, because it was officially kathleen's decision, and it was not i didn't have anything to do with it -- >> let me play that comment. this is the brepresident talkin about his daughters in regards to the question. >> i will say this, as the father of two daughters, i think that it's important for us to make sure that, you know, we apply some common sense various rules when it comes to over-the-counter medicine. >> you loved this, loved this response. i can see -- >> you see it in my