Stepping Stones' Director At White House Drug Policy Symposium

From Stepping Stones

At the invitation of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, Sally Corbett, Executive Director of Stepping Stones in Katonah, and George Hoehmann, CEO of Rockland Independent Living Center, participated in a national meeting Jan. 21.

The first-ever ONDCP Meeting on Treating Substance Use Disorders Today: Access, Recovery, and the Affordable Care Act featured presentations and discussions about how agencies, nonprofits and others can work together to make America healthier and safer and how to help improve behavioral health outcomes, particularly in the recovery community.

The meeting was hosted jointly by the Office of National Drug Control Policy and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

It explored issues of how to improve access to services for persons in need of treatment and strategies to improve the overall system of care.

Ms. Corbett and Mr. Hoehmann, who is also a Councilman for the Town of Clarkstown, also serve on the National Recovery Month Planning Partners Work Group which held its quarterly meeting Jan. 22. In addition to the White House ONDCP meeting, they participated in the program planning process at SAMHSA headquarters for the annual National Recovery Month held every September.

The Partners are tasked with designing programs to promote the National Recovery Month and to spread the positive message that behavioral health is essential to overall health, that prevention works, treatment is effective and people can and do recover.

PHOTO: Sally Corbett of Stepping Stones, George Hoehmann, Rockland Independent Living Center, David Mineta of the White House OMDCP/contributed