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Addictions and Mental Health Planning and Advisory Council

About the Council

​The council consists of 45 seats appointed by the Behavioral Health Director. No more than 50 percent of the council shall be providers or state employees. 

​​The council integrates representatives of specific state agencies, service consumers and their family members, other advocates, and providers of services related to:

  • Behavioral health promotion;
  • Substance use and problem gambling prevention;
  • Substance use, mental illness, and problem gambling treatment; and
  • Recovery support.​

42 USC Sec. 300x-3 requires states to establish a Mental Health Planning and Advisory Council if they receive funding through the Community Mental Health Services Block Grant (45 CFR Part 96). 

The council's goal is to educate, advocate and advise OHA for optimal quality of life for all Oregonians through the promotion of mental and behavioral wellness.​​

  1. ​​We honor every voice.
  2. We recognize that these issues are universal; everyone experiences changes in their behavioral and mental wellness.
  3. We utilize Culturally Linguistically Appropriate Service (CLAS) standards.
  4. We value feedback from OHA regarding our recommendations – what happens to our suggestions.
  5. We can make a difference and desire to leave our fears at the door.
  6. We make decisions based on the benefit for people, not systems.
  7. We use SAMHSA's definition of recovery: “A process of change through which individuals improve their health and wellness, live a self-directed life, and strive to reach their full potential."
  8. We shake the system up, but not the individual.
  9. We Collaborate, Cooperate, Communicate, and Catalyze for system change.
  10. Equal time and value to the full spectrum of services from prevention to treatment, across the entire lifespan.
  11. The voice of the individual drives the service planning process – nothing about us without us.
  12. We ensure that what is supported here fits into the Triple Aim of better care, better health and lower cost.
  13. We ensure the system does not fall exclusively into the medical model.
  14. Greater communication and understanding with the coordinated care organizations.
  15. Be productive and not waste our time together.
  16. There is a bigger picture that we are part of.​

​The council will meet the second Thursday every month from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Pacific Time until further notice. Oregon Health Authority (OHA) holds all council meetings virtually. You can join the meeting using the link below. 

Before each meeting, OHA will post the meeting's agenda on this page. OHA will also post meeting minutes as soon as possible after each meeting.

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Join by phone: +1 669 254 5252

  • Meeting ID: 160 490 9042
  • Passcode: 017504​

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Past Meeting Materials

For meetings older than one year, please email AMHPAC@oha.oregon.gov.

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