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VOLUME 16
ISSUE 3
MARCH 2016
NORTH COASTAL
NEWS
YOUR LOCAL VOICE ON MENTAL ILLNESS
NAMI North Coastal San Diego County
President Emeritus—Bob Brooks
Officers
March Educational Event
Presidents—Mark Sensano
Vice President—Open
Secretary — Sharon O’Leary
Treasurer—Marilyn Kasperick
Assisted Outpatient Treatment
Program Directors
Date:
Time:
Place:
Speaker:
Director of Operations—Jamie Martinez
Director of Programs—Open
Director of Multicultural Program—Adriana Costa
Director of Education—Doreen Prager
Director of Ways Means—Mike Wade
Director of Consumer Programs - Karen Godfrey
Director of Community Relations & Outreach - Liz Kruidenier
NAMI Affiliate Offices
NAMI North Coastal San Diego County
P.O. Box 2235
Carlsbad, CA 92018
ph (760) 722-3754
E: [email protected] W: www.naminorthcoastal.org
NAMI San Diego
5095 Murphy Canyon Road, Suite 320
San Diego CA 92123
ph (619) 543-1434/ 800 523-5933
E: [email protected] - W: www.namisandiego.org
NAMI SIT
Copper Hill Living & Learning Center
Creative Arts Consortium
Advocacy Works
144 Copper Avenue, Vista, CA 92084
ph (858) 481-7069
In this Issue
President’s Address........................................2
2016 NAMI Walks Update..............................2
Share It With Me: NAMI Walk 2016................3
El Tratamiento del TEPT PARTE IV......................4
Report on Homelessness in
San Diego County..............................................6
Meeting Treatment and
Support Group Resources...............................7
Thursday, March 17, 2016
7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
St. Michael’s Episcopal Church Hall
2775 Carlsbad Boulevard, Carlsbad
County of San Diego
NAMI’s educational meetings are free and open to the public. Everyone is welcome.
The Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT) program is San Diego
County’s response to Laura’s Law and provides outpatient services
for adults with serious mental illness who are resistant to treatment.
AOT Laws authorizes court-ordered outpatient treatment pursuant
to Welfare and Institutions Code (WIC) Section 5345-5349.5 for
individuals who have a history of untreated mental illness and meet all
nine of the following criteria stipulated in the Code:
1. The person is at least 18 years of age.
2. The person is mentally ill as defined in WIC
3. The person is clinically determined to be unlikely to survive safely
in the community without supervision.
4. The person has a history of treatment non-compliance as
evidenced by one of the following:
yy Two occurrences of hospitalizations, or mental health treatment in prison or jail within the last 36 months – OR
yy One occurrence of serious and violent behavior (including
threats) within the last 48 months.
5. The person has been offered treatment and continues to fail to
engage in treatment.
6. The person has a condition that is substantially deteriorating.
7. Assisted Outpatient Treatment must be the least restrictive
placement to ensure the person’s recovery and stability.
After a short refreshment break, our NAMI family support group will meet in the church
library from 8:30—10 p.m. The NAMI Connection peer support group will meet from
5:30 to 6:30 pm in the parish library before this meeting.
Our Mission: Inspire and support those with brain disorders and their families. Educate and inform the community. Work to erase the stigma of brain disorders.
NAMI North Coastal News
President’s Address
By Mark Sensano
Volume 16 No. 3
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What does it mean to be a mental health advocate? It’s quite simple. Find your greatest
strength, get involved, and volunteer. If you are
passionate about supporting mental health, we
can use your talents. There are many ways to get
involved whether you are interested in fundraising, project planning, or want to serve on a key
board position. To find out more about many
other volunteer positions, please call our NAMI
North County Office.
This April 30th, please join me in supporting our
annual NAMI Walks. Come out and walk. If you are
unable to walk, please visit the NAMI Walks website
and consider donating to NAMI North Coastal San
Diego County. Your donation is tax deductible and
any amount will help continue the advocacy work we
do in the north county.
March 2016
2016 NAMIWalks Update
By Jaime Nicole Martinez
We met our Business Sponsor goal this year!
Thank you to Entravision, Tri-City Medical
Center, Exodus, AimLoan, Chemeer Consulting, Palomar Behavioral Health Center, GFash,
Herron Companies, Creation-1 and PMmapping for partnering with us on this year’s walk
event! Please join our team North Coastal
Beachwalkers by visiting http://www.namiwalks.org/team/beachwalkers to donate, join
the walk, and start your own fundraising page!
Fundraising Tips
Taken from The Give Forward Blog at GiveForward.com, with a few edits, including
specific NAMIWalks inserts.
Personalize your fundraising page as much as
possible with a heartfelt description and lots of
photos. The fundraisers who do the best are
the ones who really make an effort to tell their
stories. Explain to your donors what you are
raising money for and why it is so important to
you. If your friends and family see that you are
passionate about your fundraising efforts, they
are more likely to give and give generously.
Fundraise Strategically. While we definitely
recommend telling everyone you know about
your fundraising page, before you send out
that mass email to everyone in your contact
book, first send out an email to your absolute closest
friends and family. The reason you want to do this is
because your inner circle of friends and family will be
the most generous and will help you build momentum
for your fundraiser by setting the tone for subsequent
donors. For instance, if your first five donors each
give you $100, future donors will view this as the
appropriate donation size and will be more likely to
give this or a similar amount as well.
Promote Promote Promote! The more you promote
your fundraising page the better it will do. Here are
the best ways to promote:
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mail everyone you know! Even if you haven’t spoken
to them in years, you’ll be surprised at how many
people will decide to donate when you ask. And don’t
forget to add a link to your walk page in your email
signature, or body of your email.
yy Set up a Facebook group that includes a link to
your NAMIWalks fundraising page.
yy Write status updates on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr
and all your social media outlets, thank your donors
publicly (skip those who donate anonymously) and
ask your friends to share your posts. Fundraisers
who keep their donor base engaged with frequent
updates tend to be the most successful.
Thank your donors. Make your mom proud by
displaying your good manners and thanking the
continued on page 6
NAMI North Coastal News
Share It With Me
NAMI Walk 2016
It’s time to walk, it’s time to run beneath the early
morning sun
A mile here a mile there by folks who come to
make aware
But what’s the point of the NAMI Walk? To do
more than just talk the talk
Of people who all are willing to stand, to walk side
by side to walk hand in hand
To hold up a sign or hold up a banner to raise up a
roar, to raise up a clamber
That mental disorders are not for the weak, we’re
not just the crazies we’re not just the freaks
In fact our disorders make us kind of special,
Although there are times when we do feel
distressful
But worst of all is being catatonic, I pray that you
never need feel this hypnotic
Inability to move or to think, terrified, horrified,
paralyzed then clinked
Where spoken words enter into this thing called a
mind,
And reason and rationality fall far behind
Is that the reason we all dare to support, this once
a year gathering to mingle with cohorts?
Yes, we’ll take any opportunity to shine and
celebrate our differences one step at a time
We celebrate differences but work to end stigma,
cuz mental illness is still an enigma
We learn more about it with each day that passes,
So put on your sunscreen and don your sunglasses
We still put our pants on one leg at a time, we still
know the pleasure of earning a dime
And tell the world that you’re taking a stand, to
fight brain disorders throughout this great land
We all have awareness of our limitations so, like
diabetics, we take medications
Where one in four folks will suffer this ill and all
those who don’t surely know someone who will
Like some folks take pills for their high blood
pressure,
So dig way down deep, dig so deeply within, and
sponsor a walker and tell all your friends
The pills that we take are not for our leisure
That its NAMI Walk Day in spirit you’ll be, cause
this life ain’t easy, can you share it with me?
They help us to quiet and silence our demons
Assisted Outpatient Treatment
continued from page 1
8. The treatment is needed to prevent a relapse
or deterioration that would likely result in
grave disability or serious harm to self or others as defined in WIC Sections 5150.
9. The person is expected to benefit from AOT.
San Diego Telecare’s Assisted Outpatient Treatment
program will provide recovery-oriented, evidence-based
Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) services to
adults with serious mental illness who have been recently
identified and screened by one of San Diego County’s
IHOT (In Home Outreach Team) programs as needing
AOT services. Once referred, the participant will be
repeatedly engaged by the AOT Team to participate in
treatment. All referrals for AOT will be made through
one of the two IHOT programs in San Diego County:
yy M
HS, Inc. (North Inland, North Coastal, and
North Central regions), 858-573-2600,
760-591-0100
yy T
elecare (Central, East, and South regions),
619-961-2120
March 2016
And before long we’ve got an uprising, for those in
the know it isn’t surprising
We take medications for anxiety too, for panic
attacks, for when we’re deep blue
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Heck yeah it’s a treat for all those who dare, a
couple bucks here, a couple bucks there
And we take our meds just to drown out their
screaming
Volume 16 No. 3
By Dan Kasperick
NAMI North Coastal News
Volume 16 No. 3
El tratamiento del TEPT
PARTE IV
by Adriana Costa
yy ¿Cuál es su formación profesional? ¿Tiene
matrícula?
yy ¿Cuántos años de experiencia tiene?
yy ¿Cuáles son sus áreas de especialización?
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March 2016
yy ¿Alguna vez trabajó con personas que
han pasado por un trauma? ¿Tiene alguna
capacitación especial en el tratamiento del
TEPT?
yy ¿Qué tipos de tratamientos para el TEPT
utiliza? ¿Se ha comprobado su efectividad
en el tratamiento del tipo de problema o
inconveniente que tengo?
yy ¿Cuáles son sus honorarios? (En general,
los honorarios se basan en una sesión de 45
a 50 minutos).
yy ¿Tiene honorarios con descuento? ¿Qué
duración recomendaría para la terapia?
yy ¿Qué tipos de seguro acepta? ¿Presenta
reclamos de seguro? ¿Posee convenios con
alguna organización de atención administrada? ¿Acepta Medicare o Medicaid?
Mitos acerca del tratamiento
El terapeuta debe explicarle la terapia, la
duración prevista del tratamiento y la forma de
determinar si está resultando efectiva.
Mito: Los terapeutas simplemente asienten
con la cabeza y escuchan.
Realidad: La TPC, la EP y la EMDR son tratamientos activos donde el paciente y el terapeuta trabajan juntos. Los terapeutas muestran
un alto nivel de compromiso. Las sesiones se
orientan a objetivos. Los elementos del tratamiento se basan en habilidades.
Mito: La terapia se extiende por años y años.
Realidad: La TPC, la EP y la EMDR son tratamientos
con límite de tiempo.
Mito: Los terapeutas “se meten dentro de la cabeza”
para cambiar quiénes somos.
Realidad: Los terapeutas ayudan a entender los
pensamientos y sentimientos para tener más control
sobre ellos.
Mito: Puedo mejorar solo.
Realidad: Si ha padecido TEPT durante un año o
más, las posibilidades de mejorar sin orientación o
medicamentos son pocas.
Mito: Si tengo que hablar sobre el trauma, “perderé el
control”.
Realidad: La terapia se desarrolla en un ambiente
seguro y controlado donde usted trabajará con el
terapeuta para avanzar hasta donde se sienta cómodo.
Aprenderá habilidades para enfrentar situaciones que
lo ayudarán a controlar la ansiedad.
Mito: Solo un terapeuta que haya pasado por lo que
yo pasé entenderá esto lo suficientemente bien como
para ayudarme.
Realidad: Proveedores con y sin sus propias historias
traumáticas pueden ofrecer tratamientos para el TEPT
de manera efectiva. Lo importante es que el proveedor
tenga la capacitación y experiencia adecuadas, y pueda
ayudarlo a desarrollar las habilidades que necesita para
mejorar.
Mito: Lo único que necesito para mejorar es el apoyo
de otras personas que hayan pasado por lo mismo
que yo.
Realidad: Los grupos de ayuda pueden ofrecer apoyo
social y conexión interpersonal, pero existen pocas
pruebas de que ayuden con los síntomas del TEPT
en sí.
Continued on Page 5
NAMI North Coastal News
El tratamiento del TEPT PARTE IV
Continued from page 5
Candice Monson, PhD Psicóloga y profesora adjunta
Universidad de Ryerson
“No importa cuánto tiempo ha pasado, existen buenos
motivos para pensar que puede mejorar”.
¿Cómo sería su vida si no los tuviera más?
Aunque sea una persona mayor que ha tenido
los síntomas por mucho tiempo, la terapia
igualmente funciona y hay esperanzas de que
disfrute una vida diferente.
Lo más importante es tratarse. No importa
cuánto tiempo ha pasado, existen buenos
motivos para pensar que puede mejorar”.
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March 2016
Hace treinta años, no sabíamos cómo tratar el TEPT.
¿Desea pasar el resto de su vida con esos síntomas?
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“Algo que escuché de otros veteranos a quienes he
tratado es: ‘No puedo creer cuánto tiempo perdí; he
vivido con estos síntomas durante 35 años. ¿Por qué
no hice esto antes?’
Al igual que en otras áreas de la medicina,
hemos avanzado mucho. Por eso, hágase esta
pregunta:
Volume 16 No. 3
Mito: Mi trauma sucedió hace mucho tiempo, por eso
el tratamiento no funcionará.
NAMI North Coastal News
Volume 16 No. 3
Report on Homelessness in
San Diego County
By Liz Kruidenier
The big news this month has been the amount of
new housing projects that have been initiated by
the State of CA, the County Board of Supervisors,
and the City of San Diego. It seems like stamping
out Homelessness has become Big Business.
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March 2016
First there was the announcement by Senate
President Kevin De Leon (D-Los Angeles), of the
2 Billion Dollar “No Place Like Home” Revenue
Bond to tackle Homelessness in California on
January 4th, 2016. The purpose being to forge
systemic long-term solutions that will empower
local governments to better serve homeless
individuals and families, increase access to
affordable housing, and help the disabled and
those in need of mental health assistance.
Then the San Diego Board of Supervisors
approved on January 26 not only enhancements
to the 15-16 midterm budget but also approved
Project “One For All”, to be used for Full Service
Partnerships and Wrap Around Services for 1500
Severely Mentally Ill Individuals and introduced
by Chairman Cox. The impetus for this action
was a direct result of the 12 Community Forums
held last fall, which listed housing as the number
one need for those with a severe mental health
problem.
On February 3rd The 1,000 Homeless Veterans
Initiative was kicked off by a collaboration of
the San Diego Housing Commission headed by
Richard Gentry, Councilmember Todd Gloria
and the City of San Diego. It was first introduced
in Mayor Faulconer’s January 14, 2016 State of
the City address as part of a Landlord-Outreach
Campaign to House Our Heroes.
This measure was in addition to the $10,000,000 from the
Mental Health Services Act Funds approved in October
by the Board of Supervisors as an infusion to the Housing Council over a 3 year period for 69 more housing
units to be added to the 241 already finished or in the
works that the San Diego County Behavioral Health
Housing Council has added since it received the initial
funding of $33 million.
The above projects will utilize the Housing First Strategy
successfully funded locally by United Way of SD and
successfully modeled by Project 25 both in San Diego
and North County and led respectively by St. Vincent de
Paul and Interfaith Community Services.
And to pull together and integrate all these new housing
initiatives into a meaningful Continuum of Care
Collaborative was the 2-day Opening Doors: Taking
Action and Coordinating Systems to End Homelessness
in San Diego, a Conference which took place Wednesday
and Thursday, February 10 and 11, 2016 at the Miramar
Holiday Inn. The successful kickoff was introduced by
San Diego Councilmember Todd Gloria, Live Well’s
Health and Human Services Leader Nick Macchione,
San Diego Housing Commission’s Rick Gentry and
Interfaith’s Greg Anglea. Their plans are to act as an
Umbrella Organization that will encourage a speedy end
and seamless resolution of homelessness in San Diego
County and make sure that the various committees will
report their collaborative efforts to the Continuum of
Care Governance Board (this is the Regional entity that
oversees federal Housing and Urban Development or
HUD) funding related to homelessness. In addition, a
Coordinated Entry system is being developed so that
all homeless in the region are assessed using a common
process, called Coordinated Assessment and Housing
Placement, or CAHP.
2016 NAMI Walks Update
Continued from page 2
people who have supported your fundraiser.
You can send a thank you email to each donor
individually through your walk page. Thanking each donor individually is an especially
good idea if you plan to fundraise again in the
future and hope to ask the same people.
Have Fun! Last but not least, always remember to have
fun. Fundraising shouldn’t be a chore. It should be a
fun activity. If you’re having fun with it, your positive
energy becomes contagious and will make friends and
family want to donate.
NAMI North Coastal News
CRISIS SUPPORT
24 Hour Domestic Violence Hotline
1-888-DVLINKS (385-4657)
Posters and safe cards advertising this number are
available for distribution.
Please contact Aneesha Bharwani at
(858) 272-5777 or
[email protected]
Crisis Team
(888)-724-7240 & (800) 479-3339
In-Home Outreach Team (IHOT)
MHS Inc.
(760) 591-0100
SUPPORT GROUPS
3rd Thursdays 8:30 – 10 pm
NAMI North Coastal Family Support Group
St. Michael’s Episcopal Church
2775 Carlsbad Blvd. Carlsbad
Tuesdays from 4-6 pm
NAMI North Inland Family Support Group
Jocelyn Senior Center
210 East Park Escondido
3rd Thursdays 5:30 – 6:30 pm
NAMI Connection
St. Michael’s Episcopal Church
2775 Carlsbad Blvd. Carlsbad
Wednesdays from 1:00-2:30 pm
NAMI Connection
Mariposa Clubhouse
2964 Oceanside Boulevard, Oceanside
Every Friday, from 12:15-1:00 pm
STEP
2nd Wednesdays 7-9 pm
Sibling & Adult Children’s Support Group
Scripps-Mende Well Being Center
Adjacent to the Westfield (UTC) Mall
Contact Michelle at (858) 756-3140
1st Friday of Every Month 6:30-8:30 pm
Familia a Familia Grupo de Apoyo
Tri City Medical Center Room #7
(760) 722-3754
BPDGlobal Support Group
1st Thursdays 6:30 – 9:00 pm
Borderline Personality Disorder
Gifford Clinic, UCSD Outpatient Psychiatric
140 Arbor Dr., San Diego,
2nd Floor, Room 247
(760) 729-5748
Recovery-International Meetings North County
Monday 6:30 pm
Carlsbad Senior Center
799 Pine Ave., Carlsbad, 92008
Tuesday 1:00 pm
Rancho Penasquitos Library
13330 Salmon River Road, San Diego
BOARD MEETINGS
2nd Monday, 4:30 pm
NAMI SIT
144 Copper Avenue
Vista, CA
2nd Thursdays, 7:00 pm
NAMI North Coastal
St. Michael’s Episcopal Church
2775 Carlsbad Blvd. (library)
Carlsbad, CA (760) 722-3754
2nd Thursday at 12:30 pm
North County Forum for Mental Health
Tri City Medical Center, Room #6
4002 West Vista Way, Oceanside, CA
(760) 940-5050
First Thursday 6:30 – 9:30 pm
NAMI San Diego Meeting
Universal Christian Church
3900 Cleveland San Diego, CA
(619) 543-1434
RECOVERY CLASSES
RICA Well
Call (858) 274-4650 for next class
Tuesdays from 1:30-3:30 PM
WRAP Well Meds for Success
Escondido Clubhouse
474 Vermont Ave. #105
(858) 274-4650
Monday-Friday 9:00 am-3:00 pm
Aurora Behavioral Health
11878 Avenue of Industry
San Diego, CA (858) 675- 4285
Monday - Friday 8:30 am - 4:00 pm
Tri City Medical Center Outpatient
Behavioral Health
510 West Vista Way, Vista, CA
(760) 940-5050
Palomar Outpatient Behavioral Health
125 Vallecitos del Oro, Ste 125
San Marcos
(760) 739-2988 (760) 510-8352
Monday-Friday 8 – 4 pm
Kinesis North/Inland BPSR Center
474 West Vermont, Escondido, CA
(760) 480-2255
SOCIALIZATION CENTERS
Monday-Friday, 8:00 am to 4:30 pm
1st Saturday, 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 pm
Escondido Clubhouse
474 West Vermont Escondido, CA
(760) 737-7125 FAX (760) 737-8348
Sarah Bowdoin-Jones
Friends at Copper Hill
144 Copper Avenue., Vista,
Activities temporarily suspended
(858) 481-7069
Monday-Friday, 8:00 am - 4:00 pm
Mariposa Clubhouse
2964 Oceanside Blvd, Oceanside
(760) 439-2785
Veronica Aguilar
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT
Exodus Recovery
Walk-In Assessment Centers
524 West Vista Way
Vista (760) 758-1150
Monday-Friday 10:30 am-6:30 pm
1520 S. Escondido Blvd
Escondido (760) 758-1150
Monday-Friday 8 am-4:30 pm
Mental Health Systems
1701 Mission Avenue Suite A
Oceanside (760)-967-4475
INPATIENT ­­­TREATMENT
Tri-City Hospital Behavioral Health Unit
(877) 299-0664
Palomar Center for Behavioral Health
555 E. Valley Parkway, Escondido
(760) 739-3000
March 2016
SSI Consumer Advocates
Is available at the Mariposa Clubhouse to answer
SSI questions or to provide help in completing
and filing SSI applications
(760) 439-2785
Aurora Behavioral Hospital
Rancho Bernardo
Contact Mark (858) 538-8450
BEHAVIORAL HEALTH
PROGRAMS
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Suicide Prevention
(888) 784-2433
Warm Line (Consumer Support)
800-930-9276 & 619-295-1055
5 PM – 11 PM daily
Depression & Bipolar Support Alliance
VA San Diego Medical Center
www.dbsasandiego.org
Mondays – Room 2011 – 6 PM
Thursdays – Room 2436 – 6 PM
Wednesday, 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
510 W. Vista Way, Vista
Bobbie Hamilton—(760) 439-3500
Volume 16 No. 3
Meetings, Treatment and
Support Group Resources
Your Local Voice on Mental Illness
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SAVE THE DATE!
2016 NAMIWalks
San Diego County
Saturday, April 30, 2016
7:30 am—Noon
NTC/Liberty Station
2455 Cushing Road,
San Diego CA 92016
Registration is free.
Donations are welcomed.
Join the NAMI North Coastal
Beachwalkers Team to
bring awareness and celebrate recovery!
#IAmStigmaFree
VOLUME 16 No. 3
March 2016
This newsletter is published by NAMI NCSDC,
an affiliate of NAMI California and NAMI.
Any opinions expressed in this newsletter do
not necessarily reflect those of NAMI NCSDC.
Editorial contributions, humorous non-copyrighted stories, personal recovery stories and
articles on mental health are invited and may be
sent via e-mail by the 20th of each month for
publication consideration in the following month’s
edition to: [email protected].
NAMI-NCSDC Carlsbad, CA 92018
phone: (760) 722-3754
e-mail: [email protected]
website: www.naminorthcoastal.org
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corporation in 1983