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Building a Quality Behavioral Health Workforce: Employing Service-User Perspectives Throughout Your Organization
…means at Community Access moves far beyond common understandings of peer work particularly as it is defined under HCBS. At Community Access, service-user experiences and perspectives are represented at every…
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Stigma Is Being Used as a Political Weapon: Reject It
…are committed by people who are not seriously mentally ill including: Terrorists Racists Religious bigots People who commit purposeful acts of murder or manslaughter or who commit crimes that result…
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Mental Illness Education Does Make a Difference: “Breaking the Silence” Found to be Effective
…from his high school friends twenty-three years ago when they were searching for an explanation of why he had suddenly disappeared from school. Although Susin says she was comfortable speaking…
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Secondary Traumatic Stress: A Key Piece of the Conversation
…https://www.acf.hhs.gov/trauma-toolkit/secondary-traumatic-stress. Peterson, S. (2018). Introduction. The National Child Traumatic Stress Network. https://www.nctsn.org/trauma-informed-care/secondary-traumatic-stress/introduction. Figley, C. (1995). Compassion fatigue: Coping with secondary traumatic stress disorder in those who treat the traumatized. New…
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Murders and Mental Health Advocacy: Opportunity or Temptation to Resist?
…this as an opportunity to ask for more money for community mental health generally or for specific needs such as housing, assertive community treatment, family support, screening, early intervention, preventive…
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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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Mental Health in Health Care Reform: High Hopes but Big Battles Ahead
…of New York City. He currently teaches at Columbia University’s schools of social work and public health. His writings are collected at www.michaelbfriedman.com, and he can be reached at mbfriedman@aol.com….
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Innovative Management Solutions New York Partners with Arcadia.io to Improve Health Care with Behavioral Health Data
Population health management leader Arcadia (www.arcadia.io) announced today a partnership with Innovative Management Solutions (IMSNY) www.imsnyhealth.com, a joint venture between Coordinated Behavioral Care (CBC) www.cbcare.org, and Coordinated Behavioral Health Services…
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Seeking Health Care Services While Undocumented
…committed to giving every New Yorker the tools they can use to lead a life of purpose. Navigating the health care system can be complex and complicated even for insured…
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Substance Abuse Among Veterans: Challenges and Hope
…nation’s heroes by promoting: Increased access to comprehensive recovery oriented civilian based mental health and substance abuse supports that are competent in military culture. Availability of community-based resources is critical…
