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ICL Housing: Like a Nice Piece of CAKE
…a nice piece of CAKE with many layers and the essential ingredients being: (1) Collaboration; (2) Accountability; (3) Kindness; and (4) Excellence. Collaboration Housing is about forming partnerships and communicating…
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Housing as Healthcare
…handrails, etc.), crisis/respite and step-down residence capital conversion, and other kinds of supports. An additional MRT initiative, the Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment (DSRIP) program, promoted community wide collaborations of…
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More Than a Roof
…is a critical component; the ability to provide intense support services, e.g., case management, on-site psychiatry, etc. to manage transitions and complex cases; and the support for stabilizing activities which…
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The Current State of OMH Housing
…System, Residential Program Indicators Report, March 2017. https://my.omh.ny.gov/analytics/saw.dll?PortalPages&PortalPath=%2Fshared%2FAdult%20Housing%2F_portal%2FAdult%20Housing&Page=RPI%20Reports 2 For additional discussion of this issue see documentary trailer regarding inadequate non-profit administration funding levels at https://youtu.be/PTMnylz6jmU as well as Human…
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Context Counts in Caring for Chemically Dependent Kids and Families
…they could. However, one day, one of the villagers asked: “Where are all these babies coming from? Why don’t we organize a team to head upstream to find out who’s…
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Improving Behavioral Health Outcomes Through Collaborative Efforts and Strategies
…in which there was a gap. Most providers extended their business hours and now outpatient treatment sites are available from 7am- 9pm. In addition, Stabilization, Crisis respite, and Resource &…
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Finding a Public Health Vision to Combat the Opioid Epidemic
…principles. Organizing and innovating around them should help drive change forward for all of our efforts in behavioral health. Track our progress on ThriveNYC at the Health Department’s site, www.nyc.gov/health….
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Taking Care into the Streets to Reduce Harm and Save Lives: The Vital Role of Needle Exchange and Harm Reduction Services within the Healthcare Delivery System
…(https://www.omh.ny.gov/omhweb/bho/docs/guidance-on-licensed-behavioral-health-practitioner-benefit.pdf) is a Waiver option that allows treatment providers to conduct offsite services for individuals whose managed care provider approves the need for community-based engagement. Approaches like Motivational Interviewing, Seeking…
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The Doctor Will Actually See You Now
…broad domains: 1) prescribing guidelines, 2) prescription drug monitoring programs, 3) pharmacy benefit managers and pharmacies, 4) engineering strategies, 5) overdose education and naloxone distribution (OEND) programs, 6) addiction treatment,…
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A Person-Centered Approach to Substance Use: Lessons from the Barbershop
…without judgment, neither in the moment nor for the long haul. Services for the UnderServed has been serving vulnerable New Yorkers for 40 years. Contact us at www.sus.org or info@sus.org….
