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Access for All: Achieving Behavioral Health Equity in Healthcare
…The latest evidence on the integration of mental health and substance use disorder services highlights the importance and effectiveness of a comprehensive, integrated approach to addressing these interrelated issues. Research…
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“Children’s System of Care” in Westchester County, New York
…management, and training to be instituted as part of the System of Care. The latest additions have been the Subcommittees on Trauma and Community Partnership for Undoing Racism which have…
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Tips for a Successful Employee Wellness Program
…Wellness or Health Promotion Committee that includes staff members from each program or department within your organization, who can act as representatives for their respective groups. Most of Springbrook’s committee…
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Critical Themes in Mental Health Treatment of African Americans: Past, Present, and Recommendations for the Future
…Jackson, Vanessa (2002), In Our Own Voices: African American Stories of Oppression: Survival and Recovery in the Mental Health System”, pp 1-36, p 4-8 Retrieved from: http://academic.Udayton.edu/health/01status/mental01.htm https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/black-asylum-files-reveal-racism/2021/03/26/ebfb2eda-6d178-lleb-9ead-673168d5b874_story.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v+IUdlmK32kg www.nami.org…
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The Center for Practice Innovations: A Resource for the Behavioral Healthcare Workforce
…about CPI at: www.practiceinnovations.org. If your program has not yet signed up for CPI’s training and resources, complete an application at: https://cumc.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_7UiDOZnSqJw7hyJ For questions related to this article, please contact…
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Stigma: How Vocabulary and Language Can Make a Difference
…treatment, which also helped clients have access to care. Addiction is a difficult and temperamental topic to health care providers, community, and counselors managing the specialized community. The media even…
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Integrating Staff Wellness into Agency Culture: A Win, Win, Win
…employee wellness initiative and will highlight some steps that have been taken at Putnam Family and Community Services. There is significant research available on the internet that clearly shows decreases…
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Stable Housing: Key to Closing the Mortality Gap
…to numerous studies can be found in Alexander, MJ et al. Co-Occurring Severe Mental Illness and Substance Abuse: A Policy Background Book. The Mental Health Association of NYC, 2007. (http://michaelbfriedman.com/mbf/images/stories/mental_health_policy/Co-Occurring_Disorders/Briefing_Book_Co-Ocurring_Disorders.pdf)…
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From Neighboring Institutions to Collaborators: A Joint Effort to Improve Integrated Care
…opportunity to provide comprehensive care to adults with SMI, has come to understand that systemic integration and physical colocation – a first for both – presents both challenges and opportunities…
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Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery in Substance Use and Mental Illness
…community-based organizations delivering evidence-based education programs, environmental efforts to reduce underage drinking, and early interventions for adolescents. The evidence-based programs and strategies (EBPS) delivered by our programs improve community, school,…
