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Florida Consumer Action Network

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Dear Leaders, Members and Partners,

Please scroll down to read the message from Tim Heberlien, Political Director, Florida Consumer Action Network.  Tim’s plan is to call 30 legislators in 30 days. The link brings you to a calendar, tickles a reminder and gives you a simple message.  I hope you will consider signing on and making that phone call.  Remember, Medicaid Expansion is not a done deal in Florida.  Many of our Representatives and Senators are still leaning toward a nay vote.

Thank you all

 

Coalition Members,

I sent something out earlier, but I think it might not have gone out to everyone properly.  So here goes another try!


We are initiating a campaign to contact 30 legislators in 30 days.  We are asking coalition members to take up a day and call into that particular legislator’s Tallahassee office to demand expansion of Medicaid.


How it works:

  1. Go to the FCAN page 30 in 30
  2. Share the page URL far and wide to your membership.
  3. Ask your members to select a day and time that is convenient to them 
  4. Use the SignUp Genius page to take a 10-minute “shift” (the caller can take more or less than 10 minutes)
  5. The caller will be reminded when it is time to make their call to the legislator.

Please share this page with your members.  It is up to us to demand that legislators expand medicaid!

Tim Heberlein

Political Director, Florida Consumer Action Network

tim@fcan.org

C: (813) 532-9846

O: (813) 877-6712

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Judi Evans, Executive Director

Opportunity To Share Your Story

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Patient Access for Florida is a coalition of organizations committed to ensuring access to health care and treatment for Floridians. This legislative session, the coalition is working with a number of patient and provider groups to propose critical patient protection amendments that will ensure continuity of care, formulary requirements, safeguard access to prior authorized medicines and eliminate step-therapy or fail first protocols for Floridians.

 

Over the next months there will be different opportunities to get involved and share your story to help others, such as placing phone calls to legislators, in-person meetings, testifying at committee meetings, and signing onto an opinion editorial, letter to the editor or letter to your legislator.

 

If you know anyone who has had experiences with any of the issues to access listed, please contact Rebecca Mahony. She is a coordinator for the coalition, and you can reach her at rebeccam@moorecommgroup.com or 850-224-0174. Rebecca would love to talk to anyone willing to share their story so we can all work toward our goal of strengthening patient protections in Florida.

 

You can connect with Patient Access for Florida on Facebook at www.facebook.com/PatientAccessFL on Facebook to share your thoughts, and follow the coalition on Twitter @PatientAccessFL for legislative updates.

 

Thank you for your help.

 

 

Judi Evans, Executive Director
NAMI Florida, Inc

Florida Senate wants to eliminate more than $100 million in funding forour state’s mental health

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Hi,

The Florida Senate wants to eliminate more than $100 million in funding for our state’s mental health and substance abuse system, an unprecedented reduction.

Florida already ranks 50th in the nation for per capita spending in state supported behavioral health care. A reduction of this magnitude will destroy an already fragile system. Nearly 140,000 people who struggle with very serious mental illnesses and substance abuse disorders will lose their access to life-saving services.

This budget reduction will not only cause unnecessary suffering to individuals and their families, it will actually result in much higher costs for Florida taxpayers. Instead of having access to more economical community-based services, individuals in crisis will end up repeatedly in our hospital emergency rooms, criminal justice system, and homeless centers, at a much greater cost to all of us.

If you are a Florida resident, please sign our petition to let our state legislators know that we can’t afford this short-sighted and dangerous reduction to essential state services.

That’s why I signed a petition to The Florida State House, The Florida State Senate, and Governor Rick Scott, which says:

“Florida simply can’t afford to make reductions to community based mental health and substance abuse services. Please vote to maintain current funding levels for these cost-saving services.”

Will you sign this petition? Click here:

http://signon.org/sign/floridas-mental-health?source=s.em.cp&r_by=2739322

Thanks!

U.S Department of Health and Human Services Job Fair online -Virtual Hiring Event

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U.S Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) & The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

Thursday, November 3, 2011

Broadcast Live on Web from FDA’s White Oak Campus

Video link: http://www.fda.gov/AboutFDA/WorkingatFDA/ucm275549.htm

PDF file:

flyer for HHS - FDA Virtual Hiring Event

Event flyer (PDF – 550KB)HHS & FDA invite all Veterans and People with Disabilities, who are
interested in the many Federal positions we have available at any of our 12

Operating Divisions here at HHS, these positions are located throughout
the country. To register and participate in our LIVE Virtual Hiring Event on

Thursday November 3, 2011 Please see the attached link for additional event information including how to register.

All participants in the Virtual Hiring Event will have an opportunity to not only apply to the open positions at FDA & HHS, but have their resume forwarded to all 9000+ selecting managers throughout HHS and its 12 Operating Divisions.

We are holding 3 LIVE presentations at 9:00 am, 12:00 pm and 3:00 pm
EST. We will be discussing working at HHS & FDA, Training on the updated version of USAJOBS, Determining job qualifications, How to apply using USAJOBS and Application Manager, and Detailed Information on the federal positions we are looking to fill and much more.

Please distribute this information to Veterans and/or People with Disabilities looking for employment.

The Virtual Hiring Event is 508 compliant and CC. We look forward to your participation.

Free 40 hour Recovery Peer specialist Training

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 Subject: Free 40 hour Recovery Peer specialist Training

CFBHN is sponsoring a recovery peer specialist training for peers who would like to mentor other adult peers with mental illness on June 13-17, 2011 in New Port Richey and June 20-24, 2011 in Sarasota. The only requirement is that the person has a mental illness that they are comfortable disclosing and that they have an interest in either volunteering or working as a peer specialist. We are giving preference to consumers who live in the 11 counties of the suncoast region: collier, lee, charlotte, desoto, Hendry/glades, Sarasota, manatee, Pinellas, pasco and Hillsborough.   If the classes are not filled with consumers from the 11 counties we will allow peers from other counties to attend .  The classes have a 15 person maximum so you will need to register early. You can go on the www.floridapeernetwork.org website to register.  The training is free but they do register directly with Florida Peer Network.  This 40 hour training is accepted by the Florida Certification Board as part of the process to become a certified recovery peer specialist.  Thanks, Susan

 

Susan Lang, MPH, OT/L, CRPS

Consumer/Family Affairs Director

Central Florida Behavioral Health Network

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