john o'brien, senior advisor for behavioral health financing, substance abuse and mental health services administration, u.s. department of health and human services. john, healthcare reform, why was it necessary? what benefits are we going to see out of it? well, ivette, we have about 50 million individuals in this country who don't have any insurance at any given point in a year. a number of them use emergency rooms and/or hospitals and that has a very significant cost for both people who have insurance, as well as employers who pay for insurance. we spend about $17.2 billion dollars on uncompensated care for those individuals. we also know that there is a significant number of people with substance abuse disorders who have benefits and don't access care, but there are a significant number of individuals who can't access care because they don't have insurance benefits. and richard, what are the major ways the affordable care act will affect the behavioral health system? the affordable care act, the behavioral health aspects of the affordable care act are based on sort of three principles. one is coverage and parity, two is integration o

u.s. 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

u.s. 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

u.s. department of health and human services. recovery benefits everyone. i started my own company. i got my dad back. my friends believe in me. substance use and mental disorders can be treated. it all starts on day one. 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] community connections is the largest not-for-profit mental health agency in the district of columbia. we serve probably about 3,500 women, children, and men who are frequently dually diagnosed, have histories of homelessness, and have histories of traumatic victimization. the mission of community connections, first of all, is mental health, making everybody whole, of the people who have suffered from trauma, people who have substance abuse, to give you the tools to be able to manage your mental health issues and your trauma issues such as ptsd, to make you to be able to function on the outside in public despite what thing

and make sense of life again. for information, treatment referral or most importantly help call 1-800-662-help. brought to you by the u.s. department of health and human services. [music] they decided that they wanted to have a talent show, that they would have an [inaudible] talent night and invite the whole community to show some of the positive things that kids are doing, some of the talents that they have, help the kids feel good about themselves, have a nice adult and kid, family, community get- together and have the kids have a lot of fun planning it, preparing it, and putting it on, and have the whole thing be sponsored by the drug-free coalition, so the message being, we know how to have a good time, drug free. so i just wanted to talk to you guys about the talent show and what we are working on. when are we going to do the actual show? is it going to be an in-the-evening performance? an after-school performance? a prevention-prepared community is a group of concerned citizens that come together and meet, and they all have the same focus around substance abuse prevention. any community can decide it is time to make the change, and let's really try to g

u.s. department of health and human services. it's our lifeline to the emergency information we need it's a free service that provides free entertainment. but one day soon, it could be taken away. there's a movement among special interest groups to limit free antenna tv and millions of americans who depend on it would lose out. let's tell congress to keep free antenna tv as part of our communications future. always free and always local. [ cellphone rings ] ♪ yeah, i just picked her up. we should be there in 20 minutes... [ girl #1 ] who is it? [ girl #2 ] oh, it's him. where is he? i know. yeah. i know. hold on... ♪ [ crash ] [ screams ] [ laughs ] [ crash ] [ crash ] yeah. [ crash ] [ swords clank ] >> we're back at medieval times, where juan is giving me a behind-the-scenes tour. this is the armory for the show. everything is modeled after weapons that were really used during the middle ages. i was surprised to learn that some of these weapons didn't actually start out as weapons. >> now, the axes and the flails were actually

u.s. department of health and human services. [music] the mission of the national council for community behavioral healthcare is to, through our membership, to reach out to individuals who may not have access to behavioral health services or may not know that those services are available to them. and mental health first aid is a way that we can teach the generaral public about menl illness and how they can help. well, what's the difference between say, just nervousness or normal anxiety and something that might rise to the level of disorder? mental health first aid is a program for the general public, for people who maybe don't know, could know nothing about mental illness. we have signs everywhere about how to recognize if someone is having a stroke. any questions about nonsuicidal self-injury, this behavior, before we move on to talk about anxiety disorders? but i have never heard anyone come out and say these are things to recognize that someone in your family might be mentally ill and, even further, what to do about it. much

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advocacy award for excellence in leadership and aging issues to kathy greenlee, assistant secretary of aging at the u.s. department of health and human servicesse welcome, michael adams. [applause] >> thank you. it's great to be here. looking out over a beautiful room of transfer activists come i'm also looking at a beautiful person, a beautiful woman. her name is ed wednesday. some of you may know td. bd has been stepping out of safe fabulous lesbian since the 1960s when she met her beloved partner. they lived the most extraordinary life together for a decade and we know in many ways, but one of the ways we know her now is that at the right beautiful age of 82 years old, nacl you love sushi is fighting the government for the recognition of the lawsuit. [cheers and applause] for many years, sage task or seminar lgbt aging partners across the country posed for the federal government to take action to address the particular challenges faced by lgbt older people. those pioneers who paved the way for each and everyone of us in activism i do. this advocacy was central to our because the federal government is the largest funder of community-based a

and the director of the state operations from the new york state's governor, director of the district's family service agency an assistant secretary for children and families at the u.s. department of health and human services. seated next to olivia between bolivia and me is robert reischauer, a familiar face and to everyone. he is president of the urban institute. he was director of the congressional budget office from 1989 to 1985. of interest to all of us today is one of the two public trustees in the social security and medicare trust fund. so he brings that experience to bear in his observations. moving on to my right is former congressman jim kolbe kolbe a senior transatlantic fellow at the marshall fund of the united states and a senior adviser to the associates which is a strategic consulting firm. he did serve in the u.s. house of representatives from 1985 to 2007 representing the tucson arizona area. he was on the appropriations committee for 20 years and chaired the subcommittee's our next is margaret simms and institute fellow at the urban institute and the director of the low-income working family project previously to the vice president for government and economic analysis of the join

u.s. department of health and human services. please welcome michael adams. ers and applause] ♪ >> thank you. it's great to be here, and looking out at a beautiful room of lgtb activists, and i'm looking at a beautiful person, a beautiful woman. her name is eddy y windsor. [applause] you may know her when she stepped out in the 1960s when she met her beloved partner. they lived an extraordinary life together for decades, and we know eddy in many ways, but one of the ways we know her now is at the ripe beautiful age of 8 # years -- 82 years old, she's fighting the federal government for the recognition of that beautiful relationship. please thank you eddy and every other lgbt in this room. [applause] for many years, sage, the task force, and our lgtb aging partners across the country pushed the federal government to take actions to address the particular challenges faced by lgtb older people. those pie pioneers paveed the wy for us to be in the room and do the activism that we do. it was central to our work because the federal government is the largest funder o

and we will turn to our first panel. our first witness today will be daniel levinson, the inspector general of the u.s. department of health and human servicesank you are being here. our next witness on the panel will be set up to patrick conway, chief medical officer for the center for medicare and medicaid services and director of the office of political standards and quality. we thank you for being here. mr. levinson. >> good afternoon, chairman kohl. thank you for the opportunity to testify about the use of typical antipsychotic drugs in nursing homes. these terms are powerful and misuse poses a risk to the elderly. two recent oig reports raise concerns about the use of antipsychotics to elderly nursing home resident, particularly those with dementia. we hired psychiatrist, expert in treating patients to review a stamp was medical records. their review revealed the following: in 2007, 14% of nursing home residents are nearly 305,000 patients medicare claims for antipsychotic drugs. half of the stress claim should not have been paid for by medicare because the drugs were not used for medically accepted indications. for one in drug claims,

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 services, created go4life. bud: i now 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. life -- an everyday miracle of survival. today, the future of all life on earth hangs in the balance. what happens next depends on us. jason mraz: ♪ well, open up your mind and see like me ♪ ♪ open up your plans and, damn, you're free ♪ ♪ look into your heart and you'll find ♪ ♪ love, love, love, love ♪ listen to the music ♪ of the moment, people, dance and sing ♪ ♪ we're just one big family ♪ look into your heart and you'll find ♪ ♪ that the sky is yours ♪ so please don't, please don't, please don't ♪ ♪ there's no need to complicate ♪ ♪ 'cause our time is short ♪ this is, this is, this is our fate ♪ ♪ i'm yours [ singing scat ]