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The
Arizona Department of Health Services/Division of Behavioral Health
Services (ADHS/DBHS), created in 1986, serves as the single state
authority to provide coordination, planning, administration, regulation
and monitoring of all facets of the state public behavioral health system.
ADHS/DBHS contracts with community based organizations, known as Regional
Behavioral Health Authorities (RBHAs), to administer behavioral health
services throughout the State. RBHAs function in a fashion similar to a
health maintenance organization. |
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Magellan Health Services Inc is
the state-contracted Regional Behavioral Health Authority and
manages a publicly funded behavioral health care delivery system for
Medicaid, non-Medicaid and Title XXI (KidsCare)-eligible residents in
Maricopa County. Magellan
has been designing and implementing public sector behavioral health
programs for over a decade, and currently serves nearly two million
adults and children nationwide. |
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Cenpatico Behavioral Health of Arizona has,
since July 2005, provided services to behavioral
health recipients through ADHS/DBHS.
Cenpatico currently serves as the Regional Behavioral Health
Authority for Yuma, La Paz, Pinal and Gila Counties.
Embracing Arizona principles, Cenpatico express its commitment to a
consumer-driven system that is responsive to the needs of behavioral
health recipients, families, stakeholders and communities. |
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People of Color Network
(PCN) is an
administrative and management organization composed of three
organizations: Ebony House, Centro de Amistad and Chicanos por la Causa.
The mission of PCN is to provide accessible, culturally and
linguistically competent, high quality, cost effective and family centered
behavioral health services to children that empower and meet the needs of
the family. Tailored
behavioral health services might include intensive case management,
counseling, support groups, indigenous traditional healing services and
other collaborations. |
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Native American Connections was founded in
1972 by Indian elders to provide a drug free safe haven with support
services. With a majority of its board of directors representing
the Native American community, Native American Connections serves the
urban Indian population and tribal communities from throughout the
Southwest, providing comprehensive behavioral health services, and
transitional and permanent affordable housing to low-income individuals
and families. Facilities are located in the Phoenix metropolitan area and
collaborations with other Indian human service organizations create a
seamless network of services. |
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The Mental Health Association of Arizona (MHAAZ)
has served Arizona since 1954, promoting good mental health and working on
behalf of all people living with mental illness by advocating, educating
and shaping public policy. Through
media, literature, seminars, screenings, and collaboration with agencies
and businesses, MHA shares information to help individuals learn about
mental illness and behavioral health problems and to erase stigma. |
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MIKID
is a statewide organization run by families for families that include
children and adolescents with emotional, behavioral, and mental disorders.
The organization, formed in 1978, aims to provide support and
assistance to families in Arizona with behaviorally challenged children,
youth and young adults. MIKID
employs professionally trained staff who offer a collection of services to
families who are challenged with the task of parenting a child with mental
illness. Offices are located
in Phoenix and Tucson. Services are also offered in Yuma, the White Mountains and
Mohave County. |
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Toby
House takes a strengths-based wellness approach to helping individuals
with mental illness understand, accept and reach their full potential.
Toby House mitigates social costs and enhances the community's social
diversity by assisting these individuals in their pursuit of health,
happiness and peacefulness. Toby House offers 19 locations across
Maricopa County for 24-hour, 16-hour and 8-hour supervised services and
HUD low income housing for adults with severe mental illness. |
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Art Awakenings celebrates the purposeful
process of self-discovery through creative experiences of adults with
mental illness. In a safe,
supportive environment, opportunities exist for development of personal
wellness and successful community living.
The program is committed to increasing public awareness of the
unique gifts of the artist we serve.
The Mission: Empowerment
and Recovery through Creativity. Art Awakenings supports four studios, in Phoenix,
Tempe, Glendale and Casa Grande, featuring classes, workshops and open
studio time.
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Mental Health Advocates Coalition of Arizona (MHACA) serves as the independent advocate for mental
health parity. MHACA accomplishes this mission through: supportive
services for the mentally ill; community education programs; active
engagement in the mental health system; impacting the legislative process
in order to obtain appropriate rehabilitation, treatment and legal
reforms; and being ‘watchdogs’ in the community by monitoring agencies
involved in the mental health system.
MHACA has served its constituency for more than 25 years without
funding from the RBHA, ValueOptions, believing we cannot be true advocates
for those we serve, if we take money from the Behavioral Health Authority
for Maricopa County. |
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The Office of Human Rights
(OHR), within ADHS/DBHS,
provides advocacy to individuals determined to be
Seriously Mentally Ill (SMI) and enrolled children to help them
understand, protect and exercise their rights, facilitate self-advocacy
through education and obtain access to behavioral health services in the
public behavioral health system in AZ.
OHR provides free assistance to individual determined to be SMI and
may include help in representation of those in need of Special Assistance
in service and discharge planning, grievance and appeal.
In addition, OHR may provide education to help individuals advocate
for themselves, resolution of grievances and appeals, and advocacy for
discharge to the “least restrictive environment” in the community with
appropriate supportive services. |