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Self-Care is Essential to Well-being at Work
…toolkit is a free, downloadable resource that can be found at https://www.vibrant.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Vibrant_Toolkit_Staying-in-Balance.pdf. It provides resources for organizations to encourage a culture of wellness, and also provides tools that staff members…
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HHS Leaders Call for Expanded Use of Medications to Combat Opioid Overdose Epidemic
…that have limited access to these potentially life-saving medications. The commentary also discusses how medications can be used in combination with behavior therapies to help drug users recover and remain…
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Addressing Trauma and Substance Abuse with Peer-Led Programs
…can lower people’s sense of security and safety, and challenge their resiliency. Optum and Treatment Innovations recognize that trauma is often an important component of behavioral and physical health and…
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Inequality in the Effects of Disaster Trauma in Women
…professional services that are available to address the emotional pain of traumatic events. Resources may be found at: www.samhsa.gov/Disaster and www.ptsd.va.gov/. Providers who wish to become trained in post disaster…
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How Our Programs Are Making a Difference
…for Psychiatric Rehabilitation at Boston University, 940 Commonwealth Avenue West, Boston, MA 02215, (617) 353-3549; the International Association of Psychosocial rehabilitation Services, www.iaprs.org; and the US Psychiatric rehabilitation Association, www.uspra.org….
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From the Publisher – Some Essentials on Surviving a Mental Illness During and Following Hospitalization
…in the best programs available in your community so remember you have a right to shop around. I wish there had been a newspaper like Mental Health News at the…
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PSA Addresses Mental Health Stigma in the Latino Community
…talking to friends and neighbors in the community and is aimed at reaching New Yorkers who are not familiar with NAMI-NYC or its programs. Our Video Producer and production interns…
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Analysis of Social Media Language Using AI Models Predicts Depression Severity for White Americans, but Not Black Americans
…However, when the same models were trained on Facebook language from Black participants, they performed poorly when tested on the Black participants, and showed only slightly better performance when tested…
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New Housing Venture in Suffolk County
…commitment to promoting community integration. Federation will open three 25-bed Transition to Community Residences (TCR’s) on the grounds of Pilgrim Psychiatric Center into which the last seventy-five residents of the…
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Support for Older Adult Peers
The Baltic Street, Advocacy, Employment, and Housing, Inc, Geriatric Peer Advocacy Program may be the only peer to peer program in New York City that offers services to seniors that…
