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Supportive Housing Development: Achievements, Challenges and Opportunities
Government-funded supportive housing in New York State has a richly textured history that entails an amalgam of competing philosophies, political trends and economic imperatives. A complete survey of this history…
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Integration on a Continuum: Models for Integrating Behavioral Health and Primary Health Care
In the recent years of Medicaid Redesign in New York State, community-based mental health agencies who serve persons with serious and complex psychiatric conditions have addressed the evolving transformation of…
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Older Adults and Psychiatric Rehabilitation
…members develop new friendships that help reduce isolation, normalize common feelings and experiences, and create new support systems. Sometimes, newcomers to Club Pride are taken aback by the expectation that…
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Transforming Service Delivery Systems, Organizational and Administrative Structures
…community around race. Transforming organizations is hard work; it’s much easier to slip into the comfortable and less challenging ways of operating. When other pressing issues come to the fore,…
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Lessons Learned from Senior Executives of Human Service Agencies Over the Past 20 Months
…staff as hazard pay for people working with those who were infected or suspected of being infected. Communication a must: Maintaining clear, consistent, and timely communication was another critical lesson…
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Preparing the Workforce to Improve Health and Wellness
…been conducted at two large community based psychosocial agencies and it is a key component of the wellness coaching training. Wellness Self-Care Resources Because each person defines wellness in his…
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Supporting Peer Specialists
…of peer support staff in behavioral health. www.ResourcesForIntegratedCare.com. 2015. Resources for Integrated Care. Tips to reduce negative attitudes faced by peer support staff. Retrieved at: www.ResourcesForIntegratedCare.com. 2015. SAMHSA. Equipping behavioral…
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OCD and Anxiety in Postpartum Mothers
…on their obsessions, though they feared that they would. She characterized their presentation as consistent with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is defined as having obsessions or compulsions…
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As Students Grapple with Leave of Absence Challenges, Manuals Aim to Offer a Better Way Forward
…who later attended Monroe Community College in upstate New York, is not atypical. Seventy-five percent of college students experience significant distress, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported…
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Addressing the Unique Mental Health Challenges Brought on by Aging
Older adults are one of the fastest-growing demographics in the nation and in New York State. There are currently about 4.6 million New Yorkers who are 60 years of age…
