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Integrated Health Care: A Life Saving Concept in Search of a Functional Reality
…The concept of a competent community was developed decades ago to characterize the positive synergistic impact that can be harnessed when various support elements of a community have a common…
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Mental Health: Everyone Has It. Every Day. Breaking the Stigma with ICAN’s Innovative Campaign
Integrated Community Alternatives Network (ICAN) is an innovative human service non-profit providing individualized traditional and non-traditional service and care to the highest-risk individuals and families with social, emotional, mental health,…
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Addressing Mental Health Challenges for Neurodivergent Youth
…Simply put, the current systems aren’t set up to manage the comorbidities and related challenges that so commonly accompany autism. For neurodivergent teens, these gaps in care are nothing short…
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Bridging Clinical and Research Frontiers in the Treatment of PTSD
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a debilitating stress-related psychiatric condition associated with significant psychiatric comorbidity, functional impairment, compromised health status, early mortality, and substantial economic costs to society. Despite the…
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Evolution and Innovation in Care
…health, and comprehensive medical care were all provided within the center. Joining The Guidance Center of Westchester (TGCW) 12 years ago, I learned first-hand the challenges nonprofit community-based organizations face…
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Supporting Families in Integrated Behavioral Health Care
…feel comfortable involving his parents to the level of their expectations. He wanted complete privacy in his care and did not want his parents involved. His parents frequently called attempting…
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The Children’s Psychiatric Symptom Rating Scale (CPSRS)
…CPSRS with these other variables confirmed its validity. When the validity of the CPSRS was compared to that achieved with common research rating scales that require more extensive and specific…
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System Transformation: What Does the Future Hold?
…increasingly direct comprehensive and multi-component services occurring in every milieu and neighborhood. Nearly all consumers will have access to peer specialists or community health workers working side by side with…
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From Collaboration to Collective Impact: A Community Approach to Tackle Youth Opioid Abuse on Staten Island
…to a common agenda for solving a complex social problem through alignment and differentiation of efforts. Collective impact efforts grow out of the recognition that key stakeholders across the community…
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From A Home to A Career
…for people without education or a long work record in freelance journalism, I thought. I had platters of humble pie to eat and a whole lot to learn. I ate…
