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Expanding Permanent Supportive Housing is Essential to Robust Social Safety Net
…US, belonging.berkeley.edu/most-least-segregated-cities HR&A. (2012). Economic Impacts of Affordable Housing on New York State’s Economy. www.hraadvisors.com/hra-report-explores-impacts-of-affordable-housing-on-new-york-states-economy/ Been, V., Ellen, I. G., Gedal, M., &; Voicu, I. (2008). The Impact of Supportive…
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Meeting the Medical Needs of People with Serious Mental Illness: Will New Initiatives Work?
…care. More comprehensive “special needs plans” and “accountable care organizations” are also under development. (3) Health promotion, now called “wellness” promotion, has also become a major component of the overall…
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Point of View – The Vulnerability of Women with Serious Mental Illness: Time for Action
…via “medical homes,” “health homes,” and “accountable care organizations.” Let’s hope that some of these organizational experiments are effective. Reduce Poverty: Poverty may be the single most important determinant of…
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My Return from the Darkness of Schizophrenia – An Interview with Susan Weinreich
…someone in person, it’s all over. You know? Q: Yes, I understand that from my own experience all too well (laugh). A: Even when I meet someone in person, I…
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Post-COVID Strategies to Achieve the Trauma-Informed Behavioral Health System We’ve Needed All Along
…trauma. https://www.mhanational.org/racial-trauma National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). (n.d.). Hispanic/Latinx. https://www.nami.org/Your-Journey/Identity-and-Cultural-Dimensions/Hispanic-Latinx#:~:text=Hispanic%2FLatinx%20communities%20show%20similar,illness%20may%20not%20receive%20treatment.22 National Conference of State Legislatures. (2021). Racial disproportionality and disparity in child welfare. https://www.ncsl.org/research/human-services/disproportionality-and-race-equity-in-child-welfare.aspx National Institute of Mental Health….
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Substance Abuse and Mental Health Issues Among Older Adults
…some medications, especially benzodiazepines. Additionally, some common medications that the elderly take including chlordiazepoxide (Librium) and diazepam (Valium), have such long half-lives (often several days) that prolonged sedation from these…
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Integrated Settings: An Opportunity for Advancing the Care of Patients at Risk for Suicide
…a behavioral health workforce that is adequately trained to manage patients at risk for suicide. A behavioral health provider trained in Assessing and Managing Suicide Risk (AMSR), XXXX (CAMS), specialized…
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Mental Health Services and Opioid Use and Dependence: A Non-Sequitur?
…Columbia Psychiatry Media. His new book, now in paperback, is The Addiction Solution: Treating Our Dependence on Opioids and Other Drugs (Scribner, 2018). Look for his next book in 2020….
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Planning Ahead for Difficult Health Care Decisions
…for yourself, a Durable Power of Attorney authorizes your agent, called an “attorney-in-fact”, to make decisions while you are capacitated and also when you lose capacity, unless you specify otherwise….
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Preventing Suicide Among Suicide Attempt Survivors Using an Innovative Support Group Intervention
…deaths (Center for Disease Control, 2018). Furthermore, there were over 1.2 million suicide attempts in the U.S. (American Association of Suicidology, 2018). Tragically, research shows that less than one-third of…
