The Tennessee Mental Health Consumers' Association (TMHCA) is Tennessee's only statewide organization that is owned and operated by people in recovery from mental health issues or addiction. TMHCA has over three decades of experience helping people find hope in their life. TMHCA has multiple roles in the state of Tennessee and serves as a national voice for people that are many times marginalized and unable to speak out on their own behalf.
TMHCA advocacy efforts has and will always be the foundation of the agency but as time has passed the agency has seen growth and has taken a new direction and approach to the way we serve people. TMHCA is now able to serve thousands annually through agreements with Federal and State governmental agencies, Managed Care Companies and small private donations.
TMHCA advocacy efforts has and will always be the foundation of the agency but as time has passed the agency has seen growth and has taken a new direction and approach to the way we serve people. TMHCA is now able to serve thousands annually through agreements with Federal and State governmental agencies, Managed Care Companies and small private donations.
Services
The mental health consumer/survivor movement in Tennessee began to develop. Supporters of the movement began to understand the need and importance of a mental health consumer movement in our state. Through a Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services Community Support Program grant in 1984 plans for mental health consumer and family programs/groups began.
In 2007 TMHCA contracted with two Managed Care Organizations in Middle Tennessee to offer peer-to-peer delivered services under a MCO/Medicaid contract.
Since 2007 TMHCA has provided Peer-to-Peer recovery-based services to TennCare Medicaid Enrollees who are members of a Managed Care Organization and who qualify and have been determined eligible for benefits in the TennCare Program through Medicaid eligibility criteria as described in the Medicaid/TennCare Rules and Regulations.
Since 2007 TMHCA has provided Peer-to-Peer recovery-based services to TennCare Medicaid Enrollees who are members of a Managed Care Organization and who qualify and have been determined eligible for benefits in the TennCare Program through Medicaid eligibility criteria as described in the Medicaid/TennCare Rules and Regulations.
What services do Peer Intensive Care Specialists (PICS) provide within all four Tennessee Regional Mental Health Institutes (RMHI) and seven of Tennessee's Crisis Stabilization Units (CSU)? Assist in discharge planning for program service recipients and obtain discharge appointments for follow-up. Provide 1:1 peer support/peer engagement with program service recipients on the CSU/RMHI unit.
Tennessee Mental Health Consumers' Association's (TMHCA) Peer Center is a place designed for individuals that have received mental health services, past or present, eighteen years of age or older. It is a mechanism for social change with an extraordinary value placed on education, independence and recovery.
The basic roots of TMHCA's foundation is teaching people to make informed choices about their health and making the public aware through education and support.
TMHCA's Education and Support Program provides training, technical assistance and educational activities directed at building self-advocacy skills for persons diagnosed with mental illness and are Involved in advocacy activities directed at system change by collaboration with groups and ad-hoc committees working on mental health issues.
TMHCA's Education and Support Program provides training, technical assistance and educational activities directed at building self-advocacy skills for persons diagnosed with mental illness and are Involved in advocacy activities directed at system change by collaboration with groups and ad-hoc committees working on mental health issues.
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Emily Morris
Nov 11, 2020
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I have spent the past few days reading the numerous appalling accounts of previous employees. I am now a former employee and feel an obligation to let the public know how truly unethical this place is. The upper management Is the worst I’ve ever seen - unprofessional, incompetent, and corrupt on a profound level. Tennessee needs a consumer and peer run organization, but thIs place should be shut down. The management claims to care about their members and employees on the surface, but when you work there, you see how their actions consistently contradict these claims. So I would strongly encourage
