Comments on: McCrory: Easley-Perdue Administration Accountable for Mental Health Crises http://www.carolinapoliticsonline.com/2008/10/07/mccrory-easley-perdue-administration-accountable-for-mental-health-crises/ Your political road for the Carolinas. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 12:11:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Marsha V. Hammond, PhD http://www.carolinapoliticsonline.com/2008/10/07/mccrory-easley-perdue-administration-accountable-for-mental-health-crises/#comment-3112 Marsha V. Hammond, PhD Wed, 08 Oct 2008 04:25:08 +0000 http://www.carolinapoliticsonline.com/?p=3273#comment-3112 As a registered Dem, I agree w/ McCrory in terms of the sitting on the hands re: Easley/ Perdue. Whether an administration is Dem or Republican, if they sit in power w/o any real ability to take in feedback and change the system, poor progress is made as associated with a malfunctioning system. The problem, Mr. McCrory, is not associated w/ the 'training' of the mental health workers. We have master's degrees; doctoral degrees; medical degrees. THE PROBLEM is created by NC DHHS who appears to have a limited capacity to do something as minimal as come up w/ an efficient way to diminish the paperwork and move forward. Obama's going in and you got my vote, Mr. McCrory, at the state level. Perdue seems to think we need 'more case management'; nothing could be further from the truth. We do not need case managers, who do no actual work in terms of working w/ the client to move forward, but who organize the information----as this was SUPPOSED to be something that COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES DID. Marsha V. Hammond, PhD, Clinical Licensed Psychologist, Asheville/ Waynesville NC As a registered Dem, I agree w/ McCrory in terms of the sitting on the hands re: Easley/ Perdue. Whether an administration is Dem or Republican, if they sit in power w/o any real ability to take in feedback and change the system, poor progress is made as associated with a malfunctioning system.

The problem, Mr. McCrory, is not associated w/ the ‘training’ of the mental health workers. We have master’s degrees; doctoral degrees; medical degrees. THE PROBLEM is created by NC DHHS who appears to have a limited capacity to do something as minimal as come up w/ an efficient way to diminish the paperwork and move forward.

Obama’s going in and you got my vote, Mr. McCrory, at the state level. Perdue seems to think we need ‘more case management’; nothing could be further from the truth. We do not need case managers, who do no actual work in terms of working w/ the client to move forward, but who organize the information—-as this was SUPPOSED to be something that COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES DID.
Marsha V. Hammond, PhD, Clinical Licensed Psychologist, Asheville/ Waynesville NC

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