Manager: Jeff Jessee, Executive Director
Tel: (907) 269-7960 Fax: (907) 269-7966

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To improve the health, safety and economic security of Alaska Mental Health Trust beneficiaries, as well as to ensure that trust beneficiaries are productively engaged, employed and contributing so they can live with dignity and are valued members of society.





Services Provided:
Administer the Mental Health Trust in carrying out its trust obligations.
Enhance and protect the land assets of the Trust;
Enhance and protect the cash assets of the Trust;
Provide leadership in advocacy, planning, implementing and funding of a comprehensive integrated mental health program; and
Spend Trust income to improve the lives and circumstances of trust beneficiaries.

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We have used Trust land and income for a plan to downsize and build the new state psychiatric hospital while improving the southcentral community-based services to absorb the downsized patient beds.

We have used Trust income to leverage other funds and to make a coordinated effort at establishing or improving beneficiary housing, transportation services, quality assurance, community telepsychiatry, and employment initiatives. Trust dollars also leveraged funds for direct service provider training, the women's substance abuse treatment in the Department of Corrections, domiciliary care, fetal alcohol effects and syndrome, the children's care coordination services, and a mental health consumer affairs program.

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In light of the stock market changes and volatility, maintain a Principal Reserve account balance sufficient to protect the disbursement rate over time so as to allow the comprehensive integrated mental health program budget to remain funded a fluid level.

Replacing and reducing the size of the state psychiatric hospital, while simultaneously increasing the Southcentral Alaska community-based services to compensate for this downsizing.

To coordinate and collaborate with the various state agencies, providers and advocacy groups to meet the program needs of the trust beneficiaries.

To support the innovative programs and projects in the areas of housing, transportation, employment, and service needs for Trust beneficiaries, while maintaining the current funding level for mental health programs and projects to avoid a serious gap in services.

To provide support to the various task forces on insurance parity, assisted living, employment, community-based services, homeless, and transportation issues so as to allow the current state administered programs to continue until a solution or mandate can be met.

The lack of knowledge about the Alaska Mental Health Trust has focused our attention on educating the beneficiaries, their families, policymakers and the public about the Trust's responsibilities and activities.

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Current Status:
The Trust Land gross revenues for FY2000 are $3.5 million. For the 1st Quarter of FY2000, the gross revenues are at 34% of that goal. The core costs of the Trust Land Office administration for the 1st Quarter of FY2000 are approximately $123,000 or about 10% of the gross revenue.

Current Status:
The current disbursement rate for FY2000 is 3.25% and $10,529.7 is the projected amount available for funding the FY2001 MHTAAR (Mental Health Trust Authority Authorized Receipt) Budget recommendations.

The Trust Authority Administrative Budget for FY2000 is $907.4 and for FY2001 is $946.3.

Current Status:
In FY2000, a total of 42 of the 103 projects reported on performance measures to some extent, a rate of 40%.

In FY2000, 76% of the small projects reported completion or partial achievement of the consumer oriented performance measures.

Current Status:
In FY2000, the Trust has worked with several external foundations to establish funding partnerships. At this time the funding mechanism has not been finalized.

In FY2000, the Trust has negotiated $7 million on a SAMHA grant.

FY2000 Performance Measure	Achieved	On Track	Too Soon to Tell	Not Likely to Achieve	Needs Modification
Gross revenues for Trust land will increase approximately 18% annually, with an FY2000 goal of $3.5 million.
Revenue sources will be consistent with the adopted asset management plan for the Trust land at 62% timber, 26% land, 4% coal, oil and gas-surface estate leasing, and 8% minerals and materials.
The core costs (operating) of the Trust Land Office will not exceed 25% of the gross annual revenue.
The targeted annual disbursement rate will increase to 3.25% of the Trust's cash assets in the Principal and Principal Reserve accounts invested at the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation.
The core costs (operating) of the Trust Authority Administrative budget will not exceed 10% of the targeted annual disbursement amount available for the mental health budget.
50% of the mental health projects funded and 80% of the small projects funded with Trust income will report achievement of consumer-oriented performance measures.
Continue to develop new partnerships to improve funding of mental health services and/or provide a more efficient service delivery system.
At least $2 million in GF/MH funds, AHFC funds, federal funds and private foundation support will be leveraged with Trust income to fund the comprehensive integrated mental health program.
At least 20 new small project grants with direct benefit to the Trust beneficiaries will be awarded.
At least 3 collaborative projects from the advisory boards/commission recommendations will be initiated this year.

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Capital Projects Listed by Department.

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Department Budget Summary
Funding Source Summary
Position Summary

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