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A strong system needs strong leadership: to meet the New Freedom Commission's goals, we need to think about how we are training tomorrow's behavioral health managers.

Publication: Behavioral Health Management
Publication Date: 01-SEP-05
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: A strong system needs strong leadership: to meet the New Freedom Commission's goals, we need to think about how we are training tomorrow's behavioral health managers.(VIEWS FROM THE TRENCHES)

Article Excerpt
Seldom, if ever, do I thoroughly read a government report on the behavioral health field because most of them seem so fraught with doom and gloom. However, the 2003 final report by the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health was heralded with much cymbal clashing and gong banging because the President, not some cabinet secretary or special czar, commissioned it. Besides its presidential mandate, this report caught my interest because I wondered how the follow-up recommendations to the gloomy preliminary report a year earlier could help such a self-proclaimed crumbling, bumbling, ineffective mental health and substance abuse system.

To my surprise, the final report is upbeat and optimistic....

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