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Improving the American Mental Health System: The Importance of the Workplace
…2005. U.S. Census Bureau. “Highlights Regarding Health Insurance 2013”. http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/hlthins/data/incpovhlth/2013/highlights.html U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). “Workplace Policies and Programs Regarding Alcohol and Substance Abuse”. The National…
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Caring for Older Adults With Depression
…times when feelings of sadness are unavoidable. For older adults, this process can be amplified, putting them at risk of depression. Depression, however, does not just mean feeling appropriately sad…
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Creating a Family Peer Support and Services Workforce
…their experience can leave parents and caregivers feeling exhausted and drained. Even the most resilient can harbor feelings of anger and resentment and need time to process, heal, and recover….
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Caring for Older Adults
…these disorders. The low utilization of mental health services reflects problems of: Capacity: There simply are not enough clinically, culturally, linguistically, and generationally competent providers. Affordability: There is a particular…
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Healthy Aging Requires More Than Health
…a looming mental health crisis among our aging citizens. Comorbid physical health conditions are common among individuals with SMI, and the incidence of comorbidity rises rapidly during the aging process…
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Collaborating to Improve Children’s Health Care: The Time is Now
…Council identified a common set of measurable indicators to improve child and family outcomes—“Touchstones”—that focused on: Economic Security, Physical and Emotional Health, Education, Citizenship, Family, and Community. These areas are…
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Integrating Health and Behavioral Health: Consider All the Dimensions
…for East New York. The Community Healthcare Network (CHN) shared our vision and commitment to East New York and were the ideal medical services partner. But because primary care and…
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Reducing Access Barriers through Collaborative Care
…breadth of patient outcomes, including but not limited to increased patient engagement in and satisfaction with care, reduced time to remission, and improved quality of life. Simply put, Collaborative Care…
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The Case for Integrated Care
…is missing an appointment or unable to follow a healthy diet. While integrated care is a positive solution to a complex problem, nothing good comes without its challenges. Often times…
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Co-Occurring System of Care Committees (COSOCCs): An Innovative Regional Approach to Integrated Care
…and welfare. These threats are compounded by the economic consequences of such widespread comorbidity. Individuals dually diagnosed with mental health and substance use conditions incur significantly higher healthcare costs than…
