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		<title>Budget Action Alert for Mental Health</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:48:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your help is needed!
The State Legislature is considering whether to put the Mental Health Services Act (Prop. 63) before voters to divert funding away from effective community mental health services in order to help address the state’s budget deficit in 2010–11.
As you recall from last year, 65% of California voters already rejected Proposition 1E, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Register Now: POTAC Winter Friday Forum 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.potac.org/news/register-now-potac-winter-friday-forum-2010</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:31:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Medi-Cal Clinical Documentation and Treatment Planning
with Stan Taubman, Ph.D., LCSW
Friday, January 22, 2010
1:30 – 4:45 PM
Samuel Merritt University, Oakland, CA
Program description and registration form on Events page]]></description>
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		<title>OTs Walk with NAMI</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 02:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Be sure to check out this link. It represents the work of Suzanne White and her effort to collaborate with NAMI on a Wellness Initiative for persons with serious and persistent mental illness. It includes resources that OTs in any state could use to promote health and wellness and collaboration.

http://www.downstate.edu/CHRP/ot/nami.html]]></description>
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		<title>Government Affairs, October 2008</title>
		<link>http://www.potac.org/news/legislation/government-affairs-october-2008</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 01:02:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Legislative Updates]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The US Congress did pass the mental health parity bill. AOTA has an author on a bill at the federal level to make occupational therapy a lead in opening cases in the home health context.
OTAC was able to get Blue Cross to reverse reimbursement reductions last spring (2008) after they initially proposed 50% or more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Karen Bass is new Speaker of CA Assembly</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 01:20:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A little good news — this is a reasonable and sympathetic person and a healthcare professional…

Karen Bass will be the next Speaker of the State Assembly. She will officially be elected to that post toward the end of this year’s legislative session and hold it for two years until she is termed out in 2010. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State mental health bills in review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 01:20:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the California Coalition for Mental Health (CCMH):
They are in the process of reviewing all of the newly introduced bills, but highlighted SB 1606 as the one most likely to generate the most interest and controversy.
SB 1606 by Senator Leland Yee and sponsored by the California Psychiatric Association would significantly expand the AB 1421 Thomson [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Occupational Therapy Review and Comment Requested!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 01:19:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>POTAC</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Taken from the AOTA website…
Measures available on www.usqualitymeasures.org beginning February 8, 2008, through March 10, 2008
New measures are being proposed as part of Medicare’s Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI). Occupational therapy practitioners are urged to comment on the proposed measures, as they could be affected by the design of the measures as Medicare expands PQRI.
The [...]]]></description>
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