Advocacy and Policy Work – Alliance for Addiction and Mental Health Services, Maine

The Alliance works both in Maine and with our National partners and legislators to advocate for policies that advance our goals to:

Ensure access to quality, efficient and effective mental health and substance use services.
Achieve positive system change in the public perception of mental health and substance use disorder.
Support the delivery of services with a highly competent workforce

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‘Time for our state to recover’: Mills signs order to combat opioid crisis

Feb 7, 2019

Malory Shaughnessy, executive director of the Alliance for Addiction and Mental Health Services of Maine, said Mills’ first two executive orders represent a “complete 180-degree change the state desperately needed. Many of our community-based behavioral health agencies have been creatively pulling together scarce resources and private grants to start programs such as rapid access MAT…

Janet Mills lays out new strategy to address Maine’s opioid crisis

Feb 7, 2019

Robert F. Bukaty | AP Governor Janet Mills speaks at a news conference in the State House on Wednesday in Augusta. Mills is accompanied by Department of Corrections Commissioner Randy Liberty, left, Director of Opioid Response Gordon Smith, second from right, and Department of Health and Human Services Commissioner Jeanne Lambrew. Mills later signed an…

Committee Takes Up Bill To Write ACA Protections Into Maine Law

Jan 30, 2019

Alliance for Addiction and Mental Health Services Executive Director Malory Shaughnessy reminded the committee that it was the ACA that offered the first protections for people with behavioral health illnesses. “Prior to this point, people with behavioral health illnesses could be discriminated against legally and be barred from having coverage in health plans,” she says.…

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