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Essentials for Working with Teenagers in Groups
…Guidance Center, which provides comprehensive mental health services for children from birth through 24 and their families. To find out more, visit: www.northshorechildguidance.org. He is the author of Group Work…
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One Runner at a Time: We Are Slowly Eroding the Stigma of Addiction
…completing a marathon or reaching a fitness milestone is powerful – it can help carry clients through the difficult stages of early recovery and gives them a reason to stay…
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Investing in a Professional, Caring, and Mission-driven Workforce
…department offers a range of professional development options that support direct service and management staff in both progressing their careers and delivering the highest quality care to our clients. Workplace…
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Samaritan Daytop Village and Manatus Development Group Break Ground on βThe Richard Pruss Wellness Centerβ in The Bronx
…back. I commend Samaritan Daytop Village for their dedication to our community, and it is holistic and community-driven health centers like this one that are the just, equitable, and dignified…
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How Faith Communities Can Help Reduce Mental Health Stigma
…frees them of the responsibility to grow in their understanding of specific, multifaceted cultural differences – to the detriment of those communities. Only by moving from cultural competency to cultural…
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Peer Leadership and Workforce Development
…and mental health are equally important components contributing to an individual’s quality of life. We need research funded to study the outcomes for both the individual serviced and the peer…
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Community-Based Mental Health Agencies Must Be a Part of the Social Determinant Solution
…towards truly helping that person move forward. For community-based mental health agencies, like Westchester Jewish Community Serviced, which assist those with the greatest challenges, providing high quality mental health services…
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Are We There Yet? Reflections on the 5 Years of Childrenβs Medicaid Transformation
…complex and intensive needs. One that has secondary gains in reducing the number of children in juvenile justice facilities and improving graduation rates for children with serious emotional disturbances. The…
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Adapting to System Reform
…Any and all communication about the system needs to happen with our involvement in what’s being communicated, before it’s communicated. Don’t decide for us. Decide with us. Have our voice…
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The Best We Can Do
…being there, profoundly there. I can’t call it empathy because I really can’t imagine what it must be like for them. I call it simply “listening,” and tolerating the helplessness…
