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Behavioral Healthcare for Older Adults: It’s All About Resiliency
…to community-based behavioral healthcare for older adults. I view SPOP as a true pioneer in the field and a model for how other cities and communities can support the well-being…
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Celebrating the 34th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act: A Journey of Progress
…ensure effective communications with individuals with disabilities, providing free aides and services when necessary. Furthermore, digital health services, such as telehealth, must be accessible to people with disabilities, ensuring equal…
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Biden-Harris Administration Announces Historic Investment to Integrate Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Treatment into Primary Care
…than 400 community health centers across the country that care for more than 10 million people. Health centers are trusted community providers and a primary source of care for individuals…
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Staff Development at the Mental Health Association of Westchester
…aspects of cultural competence. These sessions are in addition to training required by regulation, including sexual harassment, compliance, and reporting of child abuse and neglect. Challenges: Developing a well-trained staff…
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Integrating Health and Behavioral Health: Consider All the Dimensions
…impact on health outcomes for people with complex needs. The success of these efforts encouraged us to open a center that could serve as a “whole health” hub in East…
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Social Isolation: A Solution-Focused Approach
…initially reluctant to open up, she found herself having very few people in her life with whom she can connect with. Distrust of various systems can compromise a person’s sense…
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Through Health Care System Integration
In many communities, harm reduction programs have helped prevent overdoses, lower HIV risk and hepatitis transmission and open the door to treatment for substance users. Originally started in the late…
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The Culturally and Racially Safe Practice
…standards which make it very difficult to open the door to other cultural norms and standards. Being able to identify and name the cultural norms and standards you want is…
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The Housing Prescription
The Housing @ Risk Program, under the leadership of Peter Semczuk, DDS, MPH, Senior Vice President & Executive Director, Moses Campus, Montefiore Health System, began in 2009 and is designed…
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What Do We Know About Social Workers’ Use of Heroin?
…currently engaged in direct practice/clinical social work (70% vs. 77%), and their most common field of practice was mental health (66% vs. 61%). Interestingly, compared to the larger sample of…
