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Building Community Resilience: Prevention and Recovery Services Working Together
…our commitment to enabling and promoting the supports that help prevent these tragic deaths and heal hurting communities. Recovery Month by celebrating a strong and proud recovery community, promoting and…
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Millennials in the Workplace: Investing in a Generation
…from college with a BA in Accounting, she hoped to work for an organization where she could make a “meaningful impact in her community.” She would pass by Odyssey House…
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Medicaid Redesign Will Help Children and Families Get the Right Services at the Right Time
…abilities and the resources of those involved to effectively resolve it. Community Psychiatric Supports & Treatment (CPST) – a comprehensive array of interventions that includes intensive rehabilitative interventions, as well…
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Mobile Teams: A Catalyst for Success
…the community. Staff assists with making healthy food choices, medication management, budgeting, nutritional meal planning, benefit assistance, socialization, appropriate daily living skills, and community safety. RTS staff provides recreation trips…
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A Person-Centered Approach to Substance Use: Lessons from the Barbershop
…four pillars of recovery – health, home, purpose, and community – describe a framework for this approach, ensuring we account for the many dimensions of our participants’ lives in the…
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Collaboration for People with MI/IDD: System Failures and Promising Practices
Individuals who have both mental illness (MI) and intellectual/developmental disabilities (IDD) present unique challenges to both mental health and developmental disability service structures. The group comprises a complex population whose…
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FAST-PS: A New Initiative for Developing Novel Treatments for Psychosis and Other Mental Disorders
…and improve treatment for those suffering from mental illnesses There is a serious crisis in drug development for mental disorders. The numbers of potential new compounds in the research pipeline…
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The NYSPA Report: The Changing Face of the VA
…If you or a loved one need access to health care at the VA, please contact the Returning Combat Veteran Program at (866) 400-1237, a national outreach number, or www.oefoif.va.gov….
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Older Adults: The Hidden βSandwichβ Generation
…caregivers is composed of, “Anyone who provides assistance to someone else who is, in some degree, incapacitated and needs help” (www.caregiver.org/caregiver/jsp/content_node.jsp?nodeid=439). Typically, when one considers the statistics and the definition…
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Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Helps Clients Cope with Anxiety Disorders
…therapist helped her identify, examine, evaluate, and modify her thoughts when they were unrealistic, and develop more accurate, balanced, and useful alternatives. Anita told her therapist that she no longer…
