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Opportunities for Improved Services with Integrated Care
…beneficiaries with mental illness and/or substance use disorders be provided with services in their own communities. These include an array of mandated Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) that are: Person-centered…
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Towards Seamless Integration: Advocating for Reform
Many people with serious mental illnesses have difficulty accessing primary care or do not feel comfortable in primary care settings, for a host of reasons. Often, they have experienced trauma,…
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Peer Leadership and Workforce Development
…and Mental Health America’s National Diversity and Cultural and Linguistic Competency Committee. Padron is also a National Leadership Committee Member of the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research’s Rehabilitation…
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Safe, Affordable & Supportive Housing: Will it Remain an Elusive Dream?
…It is hardly surprising that an era of continuing deinstitutionalization without a commensurate enhancement of affordable housing or community support services should also produce a monumental increase in the population…
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Crucial Time for Change: NYS’s Behavioral Health Care Transformation
…assist families who are providing housing and other forms of care for people with mental illness Commit to combat discrimination against people with mental illness and educate the public about…
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Healthcare Reform: The New School Lunchroom
…of your revenue ultimately comes from Medicaid or Medicare, and probably you are being paid on a fee-for-service basis. Additionally, it’s safe to assume that you’ve been trying to make…
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Meeting the Medical Needs of People with Serious Mental Illness: Will New Initiatives Work?
…an Adjunct Associate Professor at Columbia University’s schools of Social Work and Public Health. He can be contacted by email at mbfriedman@aol.com, and you can visit his website at www.michaelbfriedman.com….
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The NYSPA Report: Taking Care of the Mental Health Needs of Active Duty Military, Veterans and Their Families
…of Traumatic Stress: www.centerforthestudyoftraumaticstress.org Sesame Street Workshops: www.sesameworkshop.org Military OneSource: www.MilitaryOneSource.com United States Department of Veterans Affairs: www.va.gov The National Center for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: www.ncptsd.va.gov Give an Hour: www.giveanhour.org…
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Caring for Yourself: Learning to Live with a Substance Use Disorder
…normalizing mental health conditions within communities of color, LGBTQ communities, and helping people get access to services. She is based in New York/New Jersey. Sources www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/featured-topics/substance-use-disorders/index.html#:~:text=or%20social%20class.-,Key%20Facts,-SUDs%20are%20treatable www.cdc.gov/chronicdisease/resources/publications/factsheets/alcohol.htm#:~:text=estimates%20that%201,excessive%20alcohol%20use Our Epidemic of…
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For One Mind, Too Many Silos
…intervention with entry into a compassionate continuum of care rather than into non-communicative and competitive “silos.” The continuum needs to be the commonly noted mix of crisis, inpatient, outpatient, residential,…
