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Vote4mentalhealth Region 8 Candidate Questionnaire for NAMI #Vote4MentalHealth Region 8 Candidate Questionnaire For NAMI Affiliates: NAMI Greater Houston, NAMI Gulf Coast, NAMI Golden Triangle 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 NAMI Texas staff and NAMI volunteers sent out a mental health equal treatment of mental health conditions and substance use policy six-question questionnaire on Google Forms to every individual disorders, compared to physical health conditions, in running for a state legislative seat in a contested race. Candidates were insurance plans. However, individuals in Texas still often also provided information on NAMI Texas’ public policy platform. receive unequal coverage for mental health treatment and For now, we are only sharing the results for candidates who are in a services. What will you do to improve coverage for mental contested primary race. If we have not received a completed health care? questionnaire from a candidate, we will indicate that we have not 3. At least 30% of individuals in local Texas jails have a severe received a response yet. mental illness, and more than half of justice-involved individuals nationwide have at least one mental health NAMI Texas is a non-partisan 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. We condition. What will you do to divert people with mental DO NOT endorse any candidates, or rank or alter their answers in any illness from the criminal justice system? way. We provide this information to educate you on where candidates 4. Almost a quarter of individuals experiencing homelessness in your district stand on key mental health issues and let you use this have a severe mental illness, and mental illness has been information to inform your vote on March 3rd. A candidate’s inclusion identified as the third leading cause of homelessness of answers here does not indicate a preference or endorsement by nationwide. How will you help people with mental illness NAMI Texas. We encourage NAMI members and mental health who are struggling with housing? advocates to continue asking important questions of legislative and 5. Half of mental health conditions begin by the age of 14 and local candidates and #Vote4MentalHealth! 75% begin by the age of 24, but these issues often go undetected and untreated until they reach a crisis point. How will you promote earlier intervention for people experiencing mental illness? 6. Texas has the highest uninsured rate in the country, and has faced serious challenges in ensuring individuals in underserved areas have access to health care. What will you do to improve access to health care and reduce our high uninsured rate? #Vote4MentalHealth Region 8 Candidate Questionnaire For NAMI Affiliates: NAMI Greater Houston, NAMI Gulf Coast, NAMI Golden Triangle Senate District 4 3. What will you do to divert people with mental illness from the criminal justice system? Brandon Creighton (R, Incumbent) Brandon Creighton is running unopposed in the Republican primary. As a district judge and Chair of the Gulf Coast Task Force on Jail Diversion for the Mentally Ill I worked on a multi-disciplinary task Jay Stittleburg (D) force to find ways to improve the criminal justice system in Galveston Jay Stittleburg is running unopposed in the Democratic primary. County for the mentally ill. Mental Health courts and treatment dollars as well as process changes are critical. Senate District 6 4. How will you help people with mental illness who are struggling with housing? Carol Alvarado (D, Incumbent) Housing is a major component of diversion and yet the least dealt Carol Alvarado is running unopposed in the Democratic primary and in the general election. with. Miami has a great program with this component. I would explore ways to set up programs like theirs. Senate District 11 5. How will you promote earlier intervention for people experiencing mental illness? Larry Taylor (R, Incumbent) This has to be something that school officials are taught and Larry Taylor is running unopposed in the Republican primary. encouraged to look for. The juvenile justice system has begun this now with their intake procedure. Susan Criss (D) 1. How will you make sure more people have access to 6. What will you do to improve access to health care and mental health treatment and services? reduce our high uninsured rate? When I was a district court judge I was Chair of the Gulf Coast We must accept the federal Medicaid dollars. MHMR Task Force for Jail Diversion for the Mentally Ill. I lobbied for treatment dollars. This is a budget priority. Margarita Ruiz Johnson (D) Margarita Ruiz Johnson has not responded to the questionnaire yet. 2. What will you do to improve coverage for mental health care? I spoke on the Capitol steps for parity for the mentally ill at a rally many years ago. I will fight for parity. #Vote4MentalHealth Region 8 Candidate Questionnaire For NAMI Affiliates: NAMI Greater Houston, NAMI Gulf Coast, NAMI Golden Triangle Senate District 13 As my full page ad in the Houston Chronicle (2/23/2020) noted I think people with addictions and other mental health conditions are at Borris Miles (D, Incumbent) greater risk for contact with law enforcement. By removing felony Borris Miles has not responded to the questionnaire yet. penalties from simple drug use/possession (as Oklahoma showed) we can keep these Texans out of prison and jail. Similarly for providing Richard Andrews (D) alternative responses to people who have been arrested, and proper evaluation-treatment for those who meet criteria for mental health. 1. How will you make sure more people have access to mental health treatment and services? 4. How will you help people with mental illness who are struggling with housing? I am a family doctor who has provided addiction care, although in the past that was mostly alcohol and nicotine. But I am now DEA-waived to provide opioid MAT care myself, and plan to do so as soon as my Texas should systematically review national municipal and state clinic sets up a comprehensive program that includes the important models for addressing homelessness. Certainly, marked increase in integrated behavioral health component. This will all be done via availability of affordable housing is high on the list -- affordable FQHC clinics, which provide affordable care to uninsured and housing is a right, not a luxury, and our policies should reflect that underinsured Texans all over the state. I will also endorse legislation to priority. ensure much improved availability of such care to all Texans via other mechanisms. I also think Texas drug policy needs to more evidence based, which means a harm reduction approach. 5. How will you promote earlier intervention for people experiencing mental illness? 2. What will you do to improve coverage for mental health care? Expanding Medicaid and improving support for low-cost clinics will be key. My own FQHC has had NO state support for the last five year, for example. That is unconscionable. I would also ensure that I strongly support parity, not simply in words but in actions. All stakeholders such as patients, patient advocates, and mental health private and public insurance should be mandated to cover both mental professionals are engaged in terms of suggested evidence based and medical conditions. And where necessary the state should provide interventions, and "models that work". subsidies for getting providers into underserved rural and urban parts of Texas, for example loan payback programs. 6. What will you do to improve access to health care and reduce our high uninsured rate? 3. What will you do to divert people with mental illness from the criminal justice system? See my answers above. As a family doctor who has worked my whole career in FQHCs I know there are available solutions to the #Vote4MentalHealth Region 8 Candidate Questionnaire For NAMI Affiliates: NAMI Greater Houston, NAMI Gulf Coast, NAMI Golden Triangle affordability issue -- recognizing health and mental health care as a House District 15 right is the first step. Steve Toth (R, Incumbent) Melissa Morris (D) Steve Toth is running unopposed in the Republican primary. Melissa Morris has not responded to the questionnaire yet. Lorena McGill (D) William Booher (R) Lorena McGill is running unopposed in the Democratic primary. William Booher has not responded to the questionnaire yet. Milinda Morris (R) House District 16 Milinda Morris has not responded to the questionnaire yet. Will Metcalf (R, Incumbent) Will Metcalf is running unopposed in the Republican primary and in Senate District 18 the general election. Lois Kolkhorst (R, Incumbent) Lois Kolkhorst is running unopposed in the Republican primary. House District 18 Michael Antalan (D) Ernest Bailes (R, Incumbent) Michael Antalan is running unopposed in the Democratic primary. Ernest Bailes is running unopposed in the Republican primary and in the general election. House District 3 House District 19 Cecil Bell (R, Incumbent) Cecil Bell is running unopposed in the Republican primary. James White (R, Incumbent) James White is running unopposed in the Republican primary and in Martin Shupp (D) the general election. Martin Shupp is running unopposed in the Democratic primary. House District 21 House District 13 Dade Phelan (R, Incumbent) Ben Leman (R, Incumbent) Dade Phelan is running unopposed in the Republican primary and in Ben Leman is running unopposed in the Republican primary and in the the general election. general election. #Vote4MentalHealth Region 8 Candidate Questionnaire For NAMI Affiliates: NAMI Greater Houston, NAMI Gulf Coast, NAMI Golden Triangle House District 22 Rhonda Seth (R) Rhonda Seth has not responded to the questionnaire yet.
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