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Who We Are and How We Arrived at Today: Thirty Years of Treating People Who are Trauma Survivors
…the establishment of a child sexual abuse treatment program. Interested in taking on a new project, WJCS social worker Alan Trager was given the job of developing the newly funded…
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The Many Aspects of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
…underlying neurobiology, and effective treatment approaches. The return home of over 1.5 million U.S. service members from combat theaters in Iraq and Afghanistan has lent a new urgency to efforts…
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The Evolution of Recovery-Oriented Services in NYC and at MHA-NYC
New York City has a long and proud history of providing a wide range of recovery-oriented programs for individuals with serious and persistent mental illness. Following in the activist path…
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Embracing Agency-Wide Change: Delivering Person-Centered Services at MHA Westchester
…resulting in decreased Medicaid costs. We knew immediately that this initiative was for MHA when we saw Commissioner Mitchell’s Power Point slide that asked the key question “Service-resistant Clients OR…
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The Three A’s of a Successful Agency
…volume-based to value-based, among other changes. Success in the new environment will require more complex methods of documentation, and a new approach to management incorporating a special focus on three…
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Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder Share Genetic Roots
…“Advances in biotechnology, statistics, population genetics, and psychiatry, in combination with the ability to recruit large samples, made the new findings possible.” The SGENE consortium study pinpointed a site of…
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Comparative Effectiveness Research: An Introduction
…the multiplicity factors impacting on each individual’s healthcare outcomes, such as their genetic makeup, environment, co-morbidities, etc. In addition, the complexity of research methodologies makes it notoriously easy to misinterpret…
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Jody Rudin Named CEO of the Institute for Community Living (ICL)
The Institute for Community Living (ICL), a premier nonprofit innovator of whole health care that serves more than 15,000 New Yorkers each year, is pleased to announce that Jody Rudin…
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Let’s Strengthen Sober Housing Resources
…sober homes striving to truly support and assist people in recovery, like those operated by Mainstream House and Seafield Resources. And there’s even better news. Since 2014, new sober homes…
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WellLife Network: Offering a Continuum of Residential Services Vital to the Recovery Process
…a determination and a commitment to overcome the past and create a new future. “I thank God for my blessings and to WellLife Network for giving me a new start,”…
