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Honoring David Woodlock’s Service to the Mental Health Community
…that leads to improved health outcomes and reduced health care costs. In 2018, this work culminated in the opening of one of the country’s largest and most comprehensive whole health…
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Working Toward Employment: A Journey of Growth and Support
…serious mental illness, and as she approaches completion of her training our staff is in touch with a network of community partners and employers that offer a safe and supportive…
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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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A New Approach to Service Integration and Variation on a Proven Theme
…for recipients with complex and comorbid health conditions. Although the Mobile Outreach Team (MOT) does not retain as comprehensive an array of clinical supports and credentials as an Assertive Community…
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Policy and Practice: A Discouraging Disconnect
…statewide budgetary shortfall of $65 million per year (Association for Community Living, 2017). Tragically, this comes at a time when these providers serve individuals with extensive histories of institutionalization in…
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The Epidemic of Opiate Abuse: Its Causes and (Potential) Solutions
…health conditions. In 2001, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) established new standards in response to this unduly conservative approach to pain management. These standards required organizations…
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The Evolving Health and Social Service Landscape: Promise for Persons with Co-Occurring Disorders
A year has passed since the United States Congress enacted sweeping legislation to address deficiencies in our national behavioral health service infrastructure. The Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA) and…
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Unique Perspectives: Harnessing Multimodal Assessment to Understand How Children with Autism Decode the Social World
…1994; Lipton & Nowicki, 2009; Beauchamp & Anderson, 2010). However, the field of ASD research has been slower to appreciate this complexity, often attributing differences in social cognition among individuals…
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Two New York Behavioral Health IPAs Merge
…insufficient mental health services available. When leadership of the two organizations recognized the extent to which their networks were compatible, and the almost complete overlap in their service geographies, they…
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Healthy Aging Requires More Than Health
…a looming mental health crisis among our aging citizens. Comorbid physical health conditions are common among individuals with SMI, and the incidence of comorbidity rises rapidly during the aging process…
