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NYS OMH Engaged in Mental Health Services Restructuring
New York State is engaged in a multi-year initiative to restructure the way the State delivers and reimburses publicly supported mental health services. Over the past 50 years, New York’s public mental health system evolved from one dominated by large State psychiatric hospitals serving tens of...
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The NYSPA Report – Outpatient Mental Health Clinic Reimbursement Reform
The New York State Office of Mental Health (OMH) has embarked upon a far-ranging project to reform outpatient mental health clinic programs and the Medicaid reimbursement methodology which supports them. A particular target of this reform process is the elimination of the COPs add-on. COPs (short...
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The Psychological Impact of the Economic Downturn
The economic downturn has individuals deeply troubled about housing, jobs, and finances. Business and governmental leadership are involved in serious discussion about what remedial steps might be taken to alleviate the growing sense of a national crisis. What also is at stake is the...
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Staying in Balance: Helping Nonprofits Manage Stress in an Uncertain Economy
As the economy began to cool down, business at New York City nonprofit organizations began to heat up. In June of 2009, more than 375,000 New York City residents were unemployed, increasing NYC’s unemployment rate to 9.5% - the highest level in over 10 years (New York State Department of Labor,...
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The Economics of Recovery: Demystifying Government Work Incentives
Joanne is diagnosed with Schizophrenia. She receives $761/Mo. in Social Security Disability Income (SSI), $200/Mo. in Food Stamps, she has her own one-bedroom apartment thru Supported Housing (Section 8), Medicaid and a half-fare bus pass. She applied for a part-time cashiers’ position at...
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Activities in Group Work with Children and Adolescents
The use of physical, and other, activities in group work is more than a “tool,” more than programmed content, more than “canned” exercises, and more than a mechanistic means to an end. Group work scholar Ruth Middleman aptly described the “toolness of program more as putty than a hammer,...
