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Mind the Gap: Inside New York City’s Mental Health Crisis
Nearly a million New Yorkers cannot access the mental health care they need. A broken workforce, a fraying safety net, and deep inequities are forcing the nation's largest city to reimagine how — and for whom — mental health care is delivered. The Emergency Room at Midnight The...
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The Bar for Behavioral Health Care Just Got Higher: The Workforce to Meet It Is Shrinking
On April 6, 2026, New Jersey adopted NJAC 10:36, new integrated behavioral health program service standards that replaced three separate regulatory frameworks with a single unified standard. Every ambulatory licensed behavioral health program in the state must now coordinate physical and behavioral...
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When High-Functioning Leaders Over-Function: The Psychological Cost of Internal Pressure
There is a particular kind of exhaustion that high-functioning leaders rarely name out loud. Not the exhaustion of doing too much. The exhaustion of the constant internal management required to keep going. The background process of monitoring, adjusting, absorbing, and holding that runs beneath...
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Does Mental Health Matter in the Workplace?
The question of whether physical or emotional health is more important often generates mixed responses. In reality, the two are deeply interconnected and each influences the other in meaningful ways. Despite this, mental health has historically been surrounded by stigma, making it easier for...
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Administrative Overload: The Mental Health Toll on Your Staff and Your Business
The right workforce infrastructure makes for a healthier environment for everyone involved. Burnout is one of the catalysts more popularly associated with physicians, but administrative burnout is quietly destabilizing healthcare. More than three-quarters (76.4%) of national healthcare leaders...
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How to Turn Behavioral Health Funding into Measurable Patient Outcomes
California’s recent proposal to implement a 1-nurse-to-6-patient staffing ratio at psychiatric hospitals has sparked widespread concern across the behavioral health system. The emergency regulations are set to take effect as early as June 1, and facilities that fail to meet the new thresholds...
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Overcoming Barriers to Integrating Peer Support in Mental Healthcare Systems
Peer support is one of the most promising approaches in behavioral health, demonstrating measurable improvements in recovery outcomes for people living with serious mental illness. Yet despite decades of research and growing policy support, peer specialists remain underutilized across many...
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Integrating Peer Professionals in Complex Behavioral Health Systems
NYC Health + Hospitals, the nation’s largest municipal health care system and New York City’s largest behavioral health provider, serves individuals with complex behavioral health and social needs including homelessness, justice involvement, and chronic medical conditions. In this landscape,...
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The Value of Being Seen: Acknowledging the Importance of Shared Identities and Lived Experiences
It is a well-known fact that our traditional mental health care system has experienced a strain over the past six years. Not only are there ongoing needs for services across communities, but also an ongoing staffing crisis that impedes the successful delivery of those services. Mental health...
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Behavioral Health News Spotlight on Excellence: An Interview with Mary Brite, COO of Outreach Development Corporation, on Staying Mission-Driven Through Continuous Change
Overview In this interview, Mary Brite, Chief Operating Officer of Outreach Development Corporation, discusses how behavioral health leaders can navigate continuous change by anchoring to mission clarity, building strong organizational structures, and fostering a culture of listening,...
