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NAMI Central Texas, NAMI Temple Area, NAMI Brazos Valley, NAMI Waco the Candidates Were Asked the Following Open-Ended Questions NAMI Texas #Vote4MentalHealth Region 5 State Candidate Questionnaire For NAMI Affiliates: NAMI Central Texas, NAMI Temple Area, NAMI Brazos Valley, NAMI Waco The candidates were asked the following open-ended questions: 1. Texas is experiencing a shortage of mental health and addiction care providers, especially in rural and underserved areas. How will you make sure more people have access to mental health treatment and services? 2. State and federal law requires mental health parity, or the During February 2020 and September-October 2020, NAMI equal treatment of mental health conditions and substance Texas’ Public Policy Team and our volunteers sent out a six- use disorders, compared to physical health conditions, in question mental health policy questionnaire via Google Forms to insurance plans. However, individuals in Texas still often every individual running for a state legislative seat in a contested receive unequal coverage for mental health treatment and race. Candidates were also provided information on NAMI Texas’ services. What will you do to improve coverage for public policy platform. We are only sharing the results for mental health care? candidates who are in a contested race. If we have not received a 3. At least 30% of individuals in local Texas jails have a completed questionnaire from a candidate, we will indicate that we severe mental illness, and more than half of justice- have not received a response yet. Reminders were sent on a weekly involved individuals nationwide have at least one mental basis to candidates who had not yet responded to the health condition. What will you do to divert people with questionnaire. mental illness from the criminal justice system? 4. Almost a quarter of individuals experiencing NAMI Texas is a non-partisan 501(c)(3) non-profit homelessness have a severe mental illness, and mental organization. We DO NOT endorse any candidates, or rank or alter illness has been identified as the third leading cause of their answers in any way. We provide this information to educate homelessness nationwide. How will you help people with you on where candidates in your district stand on key mental mental illness who are struggling with housing? health issues and let you use this information to inform your vote 5. Half of mental health conditions begin by the age of 14 rd on November 3 . A candidate’s inclusion of answers here does not and 75% begin by the age of 24, but these issues often go indicate a preference or endorsement by NAMI Texas. Inclusion in undetected and untreated until they reach a crisis point. this guide does not indicate that NAMI Texas endorses any How will you promote earlier intervention for people candidate's positions provided in the questionnaire. We encourage experiencing mental illness? NAMI members and mental health advocates to continue asking 6. Texas has the highest uninsured rate in the country, and important questions of legislative and local candidates and has faced serious challenges in ensuring individuals in #Vote4MentalHealth! underserved areas have access to health care. What will you do to improve access to health care and reduce our More information on the #Vote4MentalHealth campaign can be high uninsured rate? found at namitexas.org/vote4mentalhealth-texas. NAMI Texas #Vote4MentalHealth Region 5 State Candidate Questionnaire For NAMI Affiliates: NAMI Central Texas, NAMI Temple Area, NAMI Brazos Valley, NAMI Waco Senate District 4 Cameron Brock (L) Brandon Creighton (R, Incumbent) 1. System Capacity: I would ease restrictions to access. Brandon Creighton has not responded to the questionnaire yet. 2. Mental Health Coverage/Parity: I would get government out of it. Let the free market work itself so people have easier access Jay Stittleburg (D) including more affordable prices. The more government red tape 1. System Capacity: I will support programs that provides there is, the higher prices are. Government is the reason people incentives for people that want to seek education for becoming a leave the country to find cheaper priced treatment around the mental health and/or addiction care provider. I will also support world. programs, such as public/private partnerships, to increase the 3. Criminal Justice: First off, I would legalize all drugs. When number of facilities that are available for treatment. there is no victim, there is no crime. This would significantly 2. Mental Health Coverage/Parity: I will fight to ensure that reduce our prison population. We could encourage these health insurance programs provide adequate coverage for seeking individuals to seek the attention necessary once they are released mental health care and substance abuse treatment. from prison. As for the violent offenders, I would seek information 3. Criminal Justice: I will support programs, such as mental from professionals to figure out how best to help them with their health courts and mental health officers, to ensure that we are mental illness. Our prisons are supposed to be "correctional" getting people with mental health issues the help they need and not facilities. Let's figure out what we can do to "correct" their simply incarcerating them as jail is no place for treatment and behavior. If it's mental illness, maybe we can find them the help unfortunately our jail system in Texas is the #1 mental health they need. provider and that needs to change. 4. Housing: I would get government out of housing. I would 4. Housing: I will support programs that provide training and encourage people to reach out and teach these people the skill of education, rental and housing assistance and availability of building houses. If we provide them with skills that can provide facilities to transition from homelessness to self-sufficient. them with food and shelter, then they can become entrepreneurs 5. Early Intervention: I will support programs that provide through construction and growing food. This would get them availability of counselors and doctors in our public school systems outside, keep them busy, and feel productive. Government, to ensure that we can identify and treat mental health issues in our however, is never the answer. youth as early as possible to provide them the opportunity to lead a 5. Early Intervention: I would encourage people to find the help full, healthy and productive life. they need. 6. Access to Health Care: My #1 priority if elected is to expand 6. Access to Health Care: I would reduce government red tape. Medicaid in Texas. It is not the complete solution, but it is a good Government has failed and is the specific reason for all of these start and we need to start somewhere, because our state is doing problems. Let the free market work itself. There is a stigma that we nothing to address this issue at the moment. need government in these underserved areas. People there don't have much hope. Let's eliminate taxes, encourage NAMI Texas #Vote4MentalHealth Region 5 State Candidate Questionnaire For NAMI Affiliates: NAMI Central Texas, NAMI Temple Area, NAMI Brazos Valley, NAMI Waco entrepreneurship, encourage skill building and downsize state and symposium of the brightest minds on mental health and also federal government. finance to discuss how to best house and support people who need extra help. Senate District 18 5. Early Intervention: We need to de-stigmatize the idea of Lois Kolkhorst (R, Incumbent) asking for help. We need let young adults know that we all go Lois Kolkhorst has not responded to the questionnaire yet. through crisis and that by seeking help early that we can acquire the tools needed to address our issues before they grow to be Michael Antalan (D) insurmountable. Michael Antalan has not responded to the questionnaire yet. 6. Access to Health Care: Nurse:patient ratios— these were raised several years back, resulting in nurses leaving, hospital healthcare mainly, in droves. These ratios are unsafe and unrealistic Senate District 21 expectation to provide quality patient care. Most of our large cities Judith Zaffirini (Incumbent) have programs in High School geared toward healthcare to start Judith Zaffirini has not responded to the questionnaire yet. more students on a pathway towards becoming nurses. We need these programs in rural areas. Rural areas are hit hard with Frank Pomeroy (R) healthcare shortages, and it is difficult to find employees locally. 1. System Capacity: We need to incentivize mental health care We also need to have a conversation with educated nurses and workers to make the choice to open facilities in rural areas. This doctors and talk about how to both partner with faith based would provide more access and less migrating to the urban areas. initiatives and audit the existing bureaucracy that hinders the We also need to promote the idea better that asking for therapy is health care industry. not going to be used against individuals at a later date. 2. Mental Health Coverage/Parity: I believe that the entire Senate District 22 insurance program needs to be placed on the table and the most intelligent minds within the medical disciplines need to come Brian Birdwell (R, Incumbent) together, and discuss together without political agendas, as to how Brian Birdwell has not responded to the questionnaire yet. to help all of healthcare in the state, which includes mental health. 3. Criminal Justice: It is no secret that we need justice reforms in Robert Vick (D) our country. I think again we need to incentivize therapist to take 1. System Capacity: Nine of the ten Counties that make up Senate part within the judicial system to help non violent criminals be able District 22 are rural so this issue is of utmost important to my to cope with the world. Then the state needs programs to train constituents. The State Legislature can do several things.
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