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Breaking Down Barriers: The STAR Program’s “Stop Mental Health Stigma” Campaign
…Engaging Content, Engaging Minds The STOPMentalHealthStigma.com website serves as the campaign’s central hub, offering a wealth of resources, information, and engaging activities designed to challenge stigma. Its success is evident…
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Spotlight on Research: An Interview with Jeffrey Borenstein, MD President and CEO of the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation
…disorder, schizophrenia, autism, ADHD, anxiety, borderline personality disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, addiction and post-traumatic stress disorder. BBRF grants support a broad range of the best ideas in brain research and our…
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From Collaboration to Collective Impact: A Community Approach to Tackle Youth Opioid Abuse on Staten Island
…youth, organization, and system-levels. Some examples of data collected and shared by partners include: prevalence rates, hospitalizations, treatment admissions, overdose rates, drug-related crime statistics and age of onset. Continuous Communication:…
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A Person-Centered Spiritual Recovery Tool for Hospitalization and Beyond
…Advancing Effective Communication, Cultural Competence, and Patient- and Family-Centered Care: A Roadmap for Hospitals, Oakbrook Terrace, IL: The Joint Commission, 2010. Regarding assessment, Ch. 2, p. 15 states, “identify patient…
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A Mother’s Challenge: Planning for the Transition of Decision-Making
…her son a house and begins a long, but ultimately unsuccessful journey to find someone to help care for Scott when she no longer can. She questions officials at City…
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Addressing Behavioral Health and Opioid Use Disorder in Primary Care Settings
The Staten Island Partnership for Community Wellness (SIPCW) is a non-profit organization established to promote wellness and to improve the health of the Staten Island community through collaboration and a…
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Fighting for Our Nation’s Veterans
…rate for 18- to 29-year-old male veterans rose to record highs. In fact, veterans have a higher rate of suicide than the national average, reaching a rate of 22 suicides…
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Mental Healthcare in America: An Industry on the Mend
…Experiences (ACE) study. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 14(4), 245-258. https://www.ajpmonline.org/article/S0749-3797(98)00017-8/fulltext Meller, A., & Ahmed, H. (2019). How big pharma reaps profits while hurting everyday Americans. The Center for American…
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Building a Race Conscious Research Agenda
…David Allen, and Juanita Hall in the Journal of Counseling and Clinical Psychology. This study highlighted the reality that African Americans and whites have different experiences in the mental health…
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Find Your Center: PTSD and Yoga
…yoga is one effective way to address the symptoms of PTSD that remain strongly rooted in the body. I completed a 200-hour yoga teacher training in 2009, and also completed…
