RDM Redesign Update, DCFF chair resigned from MHPAC

Our Board Chair, Claudette Fette, has resigned from the Texas Mental Health Planning and Advisory Committee. DSHS is currently doing a review of Resiliency and Disease Management (RDM) which is what the public mental health services slate of services are called. She had recruited others to assist in bringing family and professional voices to this effort in the spirit of actual reform but they were not permitted into the process.  She did not feel that she could provide adequate oversight to the effort with the time that she had available and stepped down rather than allow us to give assent by our presence to something that we really were not going to have much voice in.  She has appreciated the opportunity to see how things work but is currently devoting her energy to her dissertation research.

Texas Legislature

Thanks to Monica Tyson with Advocacy Inc. for attempting to be all things to all people and bring family voice to the policy wonks and legislators. Bless you Monica!

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