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Prevention Policy Summit

Come To The Summit

Registration for the Summit has closed. If you have applied for the Wait List, you will be notified if a space becomes available. If you have questions regarding your registration status, please email Roxane Waldron at waldrr@dshs.wa.gov or David Brenna at brenndc@dshs.wa.gov. Thank you for your interest!

When: Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Who: Mental health advocates, key partners, policy makers, community representatives, interested citizens
What: The Prevention Policy Summit will continue the effort to guide Washington State toward a system that promotes mental health, intervenes early, and addresses the devastating impacts of mental illness.
Where: Doubletree Inn, 16500 Southcenter Parkway, Tukwila, WA. (map)
Cost: There is no cost to register for the Summit.
Media: For further information contact Jeff Pike.

Background

Since December 2007, following publication of the report Mental Health–A Public Health Approach: Developing a Prevention-Oriented Mental Health System in Washington State [Portable Document Format 771KB], the Mental Health Transformation Project (MHTP) has engaged key partners and community groups in discussions of 14 cross-cutting themes designed to promote the benefits of a proactive and preventive approach to mental health policy in Washington State.

MHTP has requested all key partners, community representatives, and interested citizens to:

  • Review the report
  • Identify up to five of the cross-cutting themes that they feel are most critical to advancing a preventive approach to mental health in Washington State
  • Identify two policy or implementation strategies that will work to make that theme most effective

A Preventive Approach to Mental Health

The report, the series of meetings, and the suggestions we have sought all work toward making the case for transformative change in how we think about and treat mental health policy, arguing that:

  • Mental health promotion and mental illness prevention are attainable public policy goals
  • Prevention-oriented mental health policy:
    • Saves the system considerable expense
    • Enhances quality of life for everyone
    • Can integrate across age-specific populations to create efficiencies and maximize impact
    • Builds on current successes
    • Is transformative, consumer-informed, multidisciplinary, and science-based

Prevention Summit

At the Prevention Summit, we intend to build on the momentum created since the beginning of the year, continuing our work to help guide the state toward a system that promotes mental health, intervenes early, and addresses the devastating impacts of mental illness.

The Prevention Summit will:

  • Prioritize themes and strategies based on our input from the meetings and discussion with key partners and communities
  • Build consensus on a vision of preventive approaches to mental health in Washington State
  • Determine the policy and implementation strategies that will get us there most effectively
  • Forge action steps for moving forward

We hope to see you there.

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