Mental Health Chief Appointed

Pam Fisher to Serve as ADMHS Deputy Director

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Tuesday, Jan 26, 2016

Alcohol, Drug, and Mental Health Services (ADHMS) potentate Alice Gleghorn announced she’s hired Pam Fisher as new Deputy Director of Behavioral Health, a cavity combined roughly a year ago when a prior emissary Michael Camacho-Craft stepped down to take a pursuit with a county’s Public Health Department instead.

ADHMS

Pam Fisher

Camacho-Craft eliminated shortly after Gleghorn was allocated conduct of ADHMS a year ago — carrying practical for Gleghorn’s post — and his position had been filled on a proxy basement in a meantime. The county’s mental health dialect has been in a routine of prolonged and incessant remodel for a past two years.

Fisher, who has been conduct of Ventura County’s Adult Services, has a prolonged story in a mental health field, carrying started with Casa Pacifica in Santa Barbara a 1990s. As emissary director, Fisher will be obliged for implementing departmental reforms — dubbed “Systems Change” — designed to bond some of a pivotal blank dots in service delivery.

One keyhole only plugged Jan 4 is that of a predicament stabilization section (CSU), where people experiencing strident mental health problems can find singular caring and treatment. The CSU contains 8 recumbent chairs versed with audio and video apparatus and staffed with mental health professionals and counterpart counselors. As of final week, a section has rubbed 11 patients.

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