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Integration on a Continuum: Models for Integrating Behavioral Health and Primary Health Care
In the recent years of Medicaid Redesign in New York State, community-based mental health agencies who serve persons with serious and complex psychiatric conditions have addressed the evolving transformation of…
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The Best We Can Do
…two women are my mother and my mother-in-law. I am close to both women and so I feel, very deeply, their experience of their own mental and physical decline. Aging,…
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One Runner at a Time: We Are Slowly Eroding the Stigma of Addiction
…and acts as guides for their runners. By giving back to the community, our clients reinforce their commitment to recovery. Join us on September 20, 2014 for the 9th Annual…
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If Only HOPSTOP Could Map Our Route to the Triple Aim
…the regulations are still being defined in negotiations between the State and Federal governments through task forces and committees. There are patterns of change that can guide behavioral health leaders,…
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Coordinated Behavioral Health Services, Inc. (CBHS) – One Group’s Pathway Toward Preparing for Managed Care
Coordinated Behavioral Health Services (CBHS), incorporated in 2012, is comprised of eight leading behavioral health and developmental disability nonprofit community-based agencies serving the Lower/Mid-Hudson River Region of New York State,…
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How Managed Care Influences Treatment Plans
Until about 20 years ago, mental health professionals set fees based on training and experience and were reimbursed by health insurance companies a fair percentage of the bill. Mental health…
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Embracing Harm Reduction
…them think through what avenues are available to them as tenants in NYC (e.g. 311, making a complaint to our property management company), help them problem-solve what they themselves can…
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An Experienced Social Worker’s First Natural Disaster
…and Halloween candy. And sometimes we simply sat and had a cup of coffee with an evacuee and listened. Observing evacuees was as inspiring as observing fellow responders. And their…
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Peer Counseling Effectiveness in Acute Care at Kings County Hospital
…health, but also in education, substance abuse treatment, and HIV services (Ault, 2006). Peer counselors use their personal experience to provide companionship, compassion and hope; they are ambassadors of empathy,…
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Recovering the Person in Treatment
…and made more and more complex. However, complexity is not the same as depth or authenticity with respect to human being. Along with this increase in subjective complexification was a…
