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Building a Wellness Culture for Staff to Promote a Recovery Culture for Consumers
…on and celebrate one another’s strengths; (D) Communicate constructively; and (E) Repair relationships that have come under stress. The training is conducted offsite in groups of 20 over a three-day…
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Social Security Matters – The Impact of Special Housing on Social Security Disability Claims
…will be up to the high standards I see as I look at the current issue. Many people who struggle with a mental illness also have difficulty maintaining a job….
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Recovery: A Participant in Life
…down at a table. The next day was even worse as far as the aches and pains were concerned. The true test was whether I could commit to another Saturday….
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How Autistic Individuals Taught Us to Teach
…students. We had them face the computers and gave them a series of tasks to complete at their pace. We were available to help them when they were stuck. Class…
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NY State Department of Health Warns the Public in Central New York About Alarming Increase In Opioid Overdoses
…resources available through the Opioid Overdose Prevention Program to help those in need. Mary T. Bassett, MD, MPH NY State Health Commissioner “Cases of overdose are on the rise in…
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System Transformation: What Does the Future Hold?
…increasingly direct comprehensive and multi-component services occurring in every milieu and neighborhood. Nearly all consumers will have access to peer specialists or community health workers working side by side with…
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Principles for Promoting Inter-Group Relations Among Adolescents Through Group Work
…one Muslim mother, that she dyed her children’s hair a lighter color to prevent them from being profiled as “kin of terrorists.” Open pathways for intercultural communication and socialization. In…
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Using Local Data to Reduce Suicide Death
…MSW Commissioner Westchester County DCMH Barbara Bernstein, PhD, MPH Chief Planning Officer MHA of Westchester To address this community problem, Westchester County recently launched a Suicide Fatality Review Team (SFRT)….
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Making Addiction Treatment More Realistic and Pragmatic: The Perfect Should Not Be the Enemy of the Good
…overdose fatalities. Neither of these measures increase drug use in communities that implement them, as critics often worry. Other harm-reduction modalities being studied include personal drug-testing equipment like fentanyl test…
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Countering Stigma – Speaking as if Our Words Matter
…problematic drugs and/or negative toxicology results as “clean,” versus someone who tests positive as “dirty,” or having “failed” the test, other words, and phrases ‑ especially those pertaining to addictive…
