The Steering Committee. WNYCCP is composed
of five county representatives, three providers, three peers/family
members, and two ex-officios from the New York State Office
of Mental Health:
Patricia Brinkman, MBA, MSW, Chautauqua County
Richard D'Amato, Peer/Family, Erie County
Deborah Donahue, Provider, Onondaga County
Phillip R. Endress, LCSW, ACSW, Erie County
Carole Hayes-Collier, Peer/Family, Onondaga County
Howard Hitzel, Ph.D., Provider, Erie County
Robert Lebman, MPA, Huther Doyle
Robert Long, MPA, Onondaga County
Jack McIntyre, M.D., Provider, Monroe County
Peter Notaro, Peer/Family, Chautauqua County
Kathleen Plum, Ph.D., RN, NPP, Monroe County
Ellery Reaves, MPA, Director of MH Services, Genesee
County
Stephen Snell, LCSW, Wyoming County
Sharon Ward, Peer/Family, Erie County
Robert Long and Kathleen Plum are co-chairs of the Steering
Committee.
Steering Committee Goals
The overall goal of the WNYCCP is to transform to a recovery
system of care, which is person-centered and person-driven,
much like the six goals of the President's New Freedom Commission
on Mental Health. In fact, the program description document
refers to the relationships between providers and consumers
as based on "the principles of person-centeredness,
person-centered planning, and recovery."
Steering Committee co-chair, Robert Long, says a substantial
investment has been made in person-centered training, with
6-14 days of training supported by the Office of Mental
Health; and, parallel to person-centered training for staff,
is training for organizations on how to be more "person-centered
friendly." While the concept of person-centeredness
raises concerns about risk management, a person-centered
planning video (accessible on the Home page) provides
a brief introduction to person-centered planning and how
it works has been developed to address this.
