Improving Mental Health and Addiction Treatment Systems: System Design Considerations To Enhance Consumer Access and Consumer Outcomes

December 4, 2008 The presentation was given by Monica Oss, chief executive officer of OPEN MINDS on December 4, 2008, at the Pennsylvania Community Providers Associations Pharmacotherapy Summit. Consumer recovery should be the primary outcome of the public mental health and addiction treatment system. However, many elements of current systems impede or prevent recovery by limiting consumer access, which results in additional costs in other systems: child welfare, juvenile justice, corrections, disability, and homelessness. To enhance the value of treatment systems and improve outcomes, the public mental health system should have integrated funding, consumer-driven care, and standardized and transparent . . .