The Mental Health Association of Westchester’s Intensive and Sustained Engagement Team (INSET)

• By: Ruthanne Becker, MA Raquelle Bender, LMHC The Mental Health Association of Westchester
• July 19th, 2023
• assisted outpatient treatment, coercion, criminal justice system, employment, hospitalization, housing, mental health, peer support, recovery, stigma, Summer 2023 Issue, training
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Anyone involved in the mental health system, whether an individual diagnosed with a behavioral health condition, family member, or practitioner of services, knows that there is pervasive stigma in our country concerning mental health. Although the COVID pandemic has brought increased attention to...

From Crisis to Recovery: The Role of Peer Support Specialists at NYC Well

• By: Carl Alan Blumenthal, MS, NYCPS NYU Langone Health
• April 18th, 2023
• anxiety, depression, peer support, peer support specialist, PEERS, recovery, Spring 2023 Issue, substance use disorder, suicide
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In her foreword to Intimations, written on May 31, 2020, novelist Zadie Smith states that as a result of reading Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, she discovered “two invaluable intimations. Talking to yourself can be useful. And writing means being overheard.” That she...

Behavioral Health News Spotlight on Excellence – An Interview with Joseph Wilson, Peer Specialist with Services for the UnderServed

• By: Staff Writer Behavioral Health News
• June 17th, 2022
• CCBHC, Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic, COVID-19, housing, peer support, recovery, Summer 2022 Issue, telehealth, treatment services, vocational support
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Overview David Minot, Executive Director of Mental Health News Education, the non-profit organization that publishes Behavioral Health News, interviews Joseph Wilson, a Certified Addiction Recovery Coach and Peer Specialist with Services for the UnderServed in NYC. Joseph details his work at the...