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Collaborations Make Aging in Place a Reality for People Living with Mental Illness
…a serious mental illness and 79% reported at least one comorbid health condition.2 Added to the demographic impact, is the well-established body of research showing that individuals living with SMI…
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Embracing Agency-Wide Change: Delivering Person-Centered Services at MHA Westchester
…resulting in decreased Medicaid costs. We knew immediately that this initiative was for MHA when we saw Commissioner Mitchell’s Power Point slide that asked the key question “Service-resistant Clients OR…
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Hudson Valley Care on Managing Change and the Intersection of Health Homes and Technology
…by communicating about the implementation monthly and gradually increased the frequency of communication to weekly when implementation was drawing to a close. Their team also worked to clean their data…
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Risk Assessment and Its Importance for Children and Adolescents
…the norm. When youth are involved, the issues are always more complex, and the terrain is changing. We are currently reviewing the child and adolescent clinic assessment process to ensure…
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Barriers to Medication Assisted Treatment for Opiate Use Disorders
…part due to much needed and essential legislation that makes obtaining prescription opiate analgesics more difficult. For example, the prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP) is a statewide electronic database of…
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Overdose Deaths Involving Buprenorphine Did Not Proportionally Increase With New Flexibilities in Prescribing
…These updated policies allowed clinicians to remotely prescribe buprenorphine to new patients without conducting in-person examinations, expanded payment for telehealth services, and provided flexibility on accepted communication technologies to deliver…
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Acquiring Financial Skills for Career Advancement
…a professional advantage. It is prudent to combine therapy skills with tangible business skills, such as budgeting, cash management, spreadsheets, business law, strategic planning, business ethics, auditing, corporate compliance and…
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Helping Kids Make Real Progress: A Systems Approach
…As a remedy, reliable screening tools, such as the MCHAT 2 are available at no cost and physician’s staff can be briefly trained to have a parent complete a short…
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Looking Ahead: The Future of Behavioral Health
…recovery services. To register to receive Learning Thursday information visit www.oasas.ny.gov/LT/index.cfm. OASAS also offers in-person Regional Learning Opportunities which can be found at: www.oasas.ny.gov/workforce/training/oasastraining.cfm and a list of free online…
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The Lens of Loss: Perspectives of Family Members Following Suicide Loss
…Mayer’s oldest son, 16, suffers from anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder. He does very well in school despite his difficulty studying, and he has a girlfriend and close friends. But he…
