Remarks by Lourdes Dorado
13 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 1
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“I do, if it's okay, through the chair. I'm going to take this opportunity just to mention that those presentations, the last two have had errors in the information of funding streams through the department that we've asked to correct. The first one they did, but in the second one they were saying that Medicaid dollars flow through the department and the managing entity, and I'm concerned about that. So I was hoping... to volunteer the managing entity in hopefully the October meeting to be able to talk about those funding streams. It kind of sounds like that's one of the things that you're…”
Behavioral Health Advisory Board · May 27, 2026
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“To become certified, you mean? The Florida Certification Board has a curriculum and a test. So there is a written exam. And then there's a certain amount of hours. I think it's 500 hours of field service. That's a lot. So, yeah.”
Behavioral Health Advisory Board · May 27, 2026
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“Yeah, I think the 500 hours is the least of the concerns. There's a lot of other issues. And I do agree with Claudio, the background check is quite an issue. Even though several years back, Florida Statute 397, the Marchman Act, is what includes peer specialists. And there were some exemptions placed in statute. But the process is still backed up.”
Behavioral Health Advisory Board · May 27, 2026
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“No, I can help whoever wants to do that.”
Behavioral Health Advisory Board · May 27, 2026
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“I'm not sure I would say most of them have a record, a lot of them don't.”
Behavioral Health Advisory Board · May 27, 2026
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“All right. So through the chair, so that would be focusing on Miami-Dade County though, right? Like maybe there's something that could be done with the 11 judicial circuit, not statewide.”
Behavioral Health Advisory Board · May 27, 2026
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“Yes, so it depends. So if we're talking about a hospital, they're licensed through ACCA. If we're talking about substance use facilities, they're licensed through us. Doctors would be Department of Health. So a lot of times, to get a physician in a room and do a needs assessment with them, that we do have a lot of difficulties getting them to the table. But we have some.”
Behavioral Health Advisory Board · May 27, 2026
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“Thank you, through the chair. At the last quarterly meeting, we talked a little bit about this board providing some oversight to the Miami Center, Recovery Center for, I always forget the name, the Leifman Building. is where I tend to go. Sorry about that. So because they are receiving or it's the plan that they do receive a good amount of Florida opioid settlement dollars and because our Substance abuse and mental health DCF regional office is identified by DCF and the opioid settlement as the subject matter expert. We provide technical assistance to counties and municipalities on the opioid…”
Behavioral Health Advisory Board · May 27, 2026
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“Sure. So that's just a small part. I'm not even going to go into those. Those are the approved uses that I wanted to make sure everybody had that. But the website... The link is on the email that I sent, so I just kind of wanted to walk through it since I didn't have a PowerPoint, but that's fine. So the settlement agreement with the National and Florida Settlement Agreement includes multiple pharmacies and pharmaceutical companies that were found to be overprescribing And when people hear out in the community what is an opioid, they think of specific drugs. But what we're talking about here…”
Behavioral Health Advisory Board · May 27, 2026
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“Through the chair. Um, I feel like this is a good time for me to mention that in three 94 statute, that's the mental health statute. There is a requirement for local match from all of the providers that receive state dollars. Um, and it's 25%. So the department covers 75 and then there's supposed to be a local match of 25%. Um, and I know that there there's the ability of having in kind, there's some, you know, flexibilities there. Um, and the managing entity does, uh, keep tabs on that. But it is difficult, more and more difficult to to meet that match requirement. So I don't know if that's…”
Behavioral Health Advisory Board · May 27, 2026
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“Unfortunately, I won't be here. On June 4 and will not be able to take anybody. We have visit Tallahassee. So I do have some concerns about those final recommendations, especially since I can't be present. I did ask to have a meeting with them. in advance of that, because for obvious reasons, they agreed, they agreed, but they only gave a half hour. So that's not enough. So from there, I communicated with Amanda and crew that, that we needed to do a presentation for this group on the funding stream. And that's where I kind of like just threw in Laura.”
Behavioral Health Advisory Board · May 27, 2026
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“No, no, no. I'll be in Tallahassee. I'll be in Tallahassee. Okay. Yeah. And I saw that it's like four hours. And we're going to be having some pretty intense meetings over there.”
Behavioral Health Advisory Board · May 27, 2026
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“I'm sure none of you all might all my regional leaders leadership is going to be in Tallahassee and I just found out about the June 4 meeting like the day of the last meeting because we didn't even have it in our calendars and I'm I'm when I say we I mean Laura. So but Laura will be there. Yeah.”
Behavioral Health Advisory Board · May 27, 2026