Lessons Learned in Effectively Advancing Co-Occurring Competent Care

• By: William A. Mullane, PhD Westchester Jewish Community Services (WJCS) Stephanie Marquesano, JD The Harris Project Michael Orth, MSW Westchester County Department of Community Mental Health
• October 23rd, 2023
• behavioral health, co-occurring disorders, co-occurring system of care, evidence-based practices, Fall 2023 Issue, integrated care, mental health screening, serious mental illness, substance use disorders, suicidal ideation, suicide, suicide risk assessment, systemic change, treatment, warning signs
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Recently, there has been great emphasis on enhancing organizational co-occurring competency and for good reason. Climbing overdose and suicide rates, with bi-directional contribution from mental health (MH) and substance use disorders (SUD), reflect our need to do better serving those with multiple...

Using Local Data to Reduce Suicide Death

• By: Barbara Bernstein, PhD, MPH The Mental Health Association of Westchester Michael Orth, MSW Westchester County Department of Community Mental Health
• October 1st, 2020
• data, death, fall 2020 issue, staff training, statistics, suicide
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Suicide is often considered to be the most preventable cause of death. Yet, recent years have seen steadily rising numbers of loss to suicide in the United States. This rise has occurred despite the cultural shift that has allowed the fact of suicide to come “out of the closet;” despite the...

The System-of-Care Movement Through a Trauma-Informed Lens: Implications for Systems Transformation

• By: Andrew Bell, PhD Westchester County Department of Community Mental Health
• January 1st, 2017
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Trying to change systems is never an easy task. Efforts to encourage, argue, incentivize, and mandate change, are often met with piecemeal results, only to revert back to business as usual. On rare occasions however, profound change can happen quickly and even effortlessly. These changes often...

“Children’s System of Care” in Westchester County, New York

• By: Carol Hardesty, MSW, MPA Family Ties of Westchester Westchester County Department of Community Mental Health
• January 1st, 2017
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The System of Care concept for children and adolescents with mental health challenges and their families was first published in 1986 in an article by Beth Stroul and Robert Friedman. They articulated a definition for a System of Care along with a framework and philosophy to guide its...