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Taking Care into the Streets to Reduce Harm and Save Lives: The Vital Role of Needle Exchange and Harm Reduction Services within the Healthcare Delivery System
…2015, there were 937 unintentional drug overdose deaths, compared to 800 in the previous year (https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/epi/databrief74.pdf). Roughly every seven hours in New York City a person is dying from an…
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Using the Partnership to End Addiction’s Online Risk Assessment Tool to Assess and Combat Children’s Risk of Developing Addiction
…Teens. Partnership to End Addiction. https://drugfree.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Playbook-for-Parents-of-Teens-062821.pdf Partnership to End Addiction. (2022, January). Playbook for Parents of Pre-Teens. Partnership to End Addiction. https://drugfree.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Parents-for-Tweens-Playbook-062821.pdf Partnership to End Addiction. (2022, September). Risk Factors…
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Treatment Services for Older Adults with Substance Use Disorders
…to address adequately. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (latest data reported in 2018), an estimated one million older people in the United States have a substance use…
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PTSD Among Veterans: A Signature Wound that Desperately Needs Healing
…Many prefer to return to civilian life and get care from primary care physicians or community clinics in their local communities. Therefore, while the federal VA must continue to bolster…
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Residential Treatment Services as a Vital Part of the Continuum of Care for Children, Adolescents and Young Adults – An Interview with Harvey Newman, CEO of Wellspring Residential Treatment Facility
…approval. Q: Do some of the kids come to Wellspring with a history of harming themselves or a pre-existing flight risk given Wellspring’s open campus environment? A: As an open…
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Clinical Work with Transgender Individuals
…especially true for transgender clients, many of whom come to treatment because they lack self-acceptance and/or support from family, friends and their surrounding communities. One way to encourage validation is…
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10 Tips to Ease COVID “Re-Entry Anxiety”
…WTI-tipsheet.pdf (netdna-ssl.com) Helping children cope: Helping Children Cope | CDC Teenagers and reopening: Teenagers and Reopening | Child Mind Institute Managing COVID depression: Six Ways to Manage Coronavirus Depression (berkeley.edu)…
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OnTrackNY: An Early Intervention Program to Interrupt Psychosis
…for community-dwelling patients with schizophrenia. Journal of Pharmaceutical Health Services Research, 2013 Jul;4(4):187-194. doi/10.1111/jphs.12027/epdf) About 100,000 adolescents and young adults in the US experience first episode psychosis each year. (https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/schizophrenia/raise/fact-sheet-first-episode-psychosis)…
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Suicide Prevention in New York State Schools: Hope and Resilience Among Urban, Suburban, and Rural Districts
…Little did he know then how the commitment made that night would fundamentally change the school’s role in safeguarding the resilience, mental health, and well-being of its community. Understanding that…
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Using the Seven Principles of Afrocentricity to Frame a Community-Based Organization’s Programs and Services for Individuals, Families, and Communities
…as Chief Operating Officer, she leads a team of devoted clinicians and administrators managing Assertive Community Treatment teams, Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics, Home and Community Based Services, Care Coordination…
