Creating the Plan
In this section, you’ll find documents providing background information for Plan development, and explaining the strategic planning process.
The Planning Team reviewed, catalogued and gave careful consideration to Iowans’ recommendations over the past decade. See a comprehensive summary of previous planning documents and Stakeholders Recommendations
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The Planning Team compiled a history of the Mental Health and Disability Services in Iowa.
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The Team developed a Strategic Planning Process for Plan Development.
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Although somewhat represented by the inclusion of the Olmstead Consumer Task Force, the issues of planning to prevent homelessness and provide for rapid rehousing of persons experiencing homelessness who also face mental illness or co-occurring disorders is lacking in the documents I have read so far. This work was not brought to the Iowa Council on Homelessness and so this perspective is missing. The high incidence of mental illness among the homeless as well as the continued issues faced in transitioning and discharge planning are a critical element to preventing and resolving homelessness among Iowans with mental illness.
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Although somewhat represented by the inclusion of the Olmstead Consumer Task Force, the issues of planning to prevent homelessness and provide for rapid rehousing of persons experiencing homelessness who also face mental illness or co-occurring disorders is lacking in the documents I have read so far. This work was not brought to the Iowa Council on Homelessness and so this perspective is missing. The high incidence of mental illness among the homeless as well as the continued issues faced in transitioning and discharge planning are a critical element to preventing and resolving homelessness among Iowans with mental illness.
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Although somewhat represented by the inclusion of the Olmstead Consumer Task Force, the issues of planning to prevent homelessness and provide for rapid rehousing of persons experiencing homelessness who also face mental illness or co-occurring disorders is lacking in the documents I have read so far. This work was not brought to the Iowa Council on Homelessness and so this perspective is missing. The high incidence of mental illness among the homeless as well as the continued issues faced in transitioning and discharge planning are a critical element to preventing and resolving homelessness among Iowans with mental illness.
Added to “Maximize federal support for systems transformation” could be ‘Take whatever actions needed to utilize the federal match offered under the affordable Health Care Act in 2010.’ Congress provided that States would receive an increased federal match IF they “rebalance” their Medicaid expenditures from institutional expenditures to community expenditures.