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Beacon Partners with NAMI-NYC to Educate Plan Members
…specifically, the importance of accessing community-based services. Measurement of the program will be two-pronged: Beacon and its partners will measure the impact that the NAMI services have on participating members’…
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Behavioral Health Transformation: ASAP Provides Vision and Leadership
…implementation of a sound business model, ASAP has initiated a major technical assistance initiative. We are developing Learning Communities, Transformation Workgroups, and a technical assistance team comprised of experts from…
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Integrating Health and Behavioral Health Services: A Personal Perspective on One Agency’s Experience
…provides the space free of charge, Ryan provides its own equipment and supplies. Communications between Ryan and Bridge staff is a priority. When Bridge clients enroll in the Ryan clinic,…
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Saving Real Lives in Virtual Space: Innovative Suicide Prevention Solutions
…handles 70,000 calls per month, we heard from our Facebook fans and others that many people in crisis do not feel comfortable picking up the phone. Now there is a…
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Preventing Depression in Teenagers
…Behavior Therapy (CBT) prevention program. We are testing this among girls and boys but hope to examine whether girls respond differently to the intervention. In future research, we hope to…
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The Impact of Race and Racism on Mental Health Outcomes
…involved in community work. Although subsequently closed due to funding, the impact of Unity House continues to be felt in the community. Mrs. Richards exemplifies the principles of a community…
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Me First? A Personal Account of Self Care
…worked in a long-term residential program, where children with severe psychopathology and complex trauma resided often without family connections due to abandonment or termination of rights. Progress was slow, at…
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OCD and Anxiety in Postpartum Mothers
…on their obsessions, though they feared that they would. She characterized their presentation as consistent with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is defined as having obsessions or compulsions…
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The NYSPA Report: A Response to the NYS OMH Report on Inpatient Suicide
…note of a parallel conclusion drawn in a 2005 Joint Commission report. While this certainly may be a contributory problem, the likelihood that similar communication occurred in tens of thousands…
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Schizophrenia: Current Research and Treatment
…research have illuminated much about the nature of the illness – though there is much more to learn – that will undoubtedly lead to better treatments. Clinical research has also…
