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From Isolation and Despair to Engagement and Activation: The Peer Support Specialist’s Role in the Behavioral Health Care System
…Health Promotion. Addressing chronic disease through community health workers: A policy and systems-level approach. Policy brief on community health workers. Washington, DC: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; 2010. http://www.cdc.gov/dhdsp/docs/chw_brief.pdf…
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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 Consumers and the PROS Model: A Growing Challenge
…the diagnosis of serious mental illness, combined with substance abuse and chronic health conditions. The types of mental disorders most commonly afflicting older adults include anxiety, depression, schizophrenia, and dementia….
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Employee Mental Health Benefits in the Private Sector: Workplace Programs and Hiring Policies
…mandates that they provide preventative care. Most employer-sponsored health plans comply with the ACA and provide coverage for mental health care. Accessing mental health care can get complicated due to…
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Basic Research Has Had a Major Impact on Developing New Treatments for Serious Mental Illnesses
…usually felt within about 2 days of administration. The development of both medicines exemplifies the power of investing in basic research. Both medicines emerged after years of careful clinical testing….
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Will We Need a Separate Mental Health System in the Future?
…leadership roles with the President’s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, the Joint Commission, the National Institute of Mental Health’s National Advisory Mental Health Council, and the National Association of…
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Housing and Mental Health Services Are Key to Recovering from Trauma
…still out here facing my mental illness and S:US is there. I gotta commend S:US, my family, and the community. Everybody plays a part. The community really accepted me as…
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Activities in Group Work with Children and Adolescents
…has formed a Youth Workgroup composed of youth consumers, to contribute to the development of the Plan, along with four complementary adult groups. At statewide forums, one aspect of the…
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Suffering Across Settings: Multidimensional Care for Chronic Pain
…(MCOs) that manage Pennsylvania’s Community HealthChoices program. Plan medical directors provide behavioral health case consultation for UPMC’s Community HealthChoices service coordinators to support individuals with complex physical and behavioral health…
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Veterans Heroic Battle with the Opioid Epidemic
…population. Every Veterans Day we celebrate the service of all U.S. Military Veterans. We know that this courageous group has been protecting American’s freedom at home and abroad. As clinicians…
