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Identifying Gaps in Employment and Vocational Supports
…plans in a particular way, having our charts pass utilization reviews or audits, simply satisfying all of our “other” duties. How do you combat this? How do we remain true…
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Serious Mental Illness Recovery: The Basics
…life you want and choose. Gathering Information on Community Factors Practitioners should have adequate knowledge of community factors that may impact care, including opportunities, resources, and potential barriers. These may…
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Healthcare Reform: The New School Lunchroom
…providing real care for people who don’t have the resources to pay for care themselves is going to require multiple specialized providers—the entire community—to work together. It’s the community that…
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Court-Approved Settlement Gives New York Adult Home Residents Their Lives Back
…York City’s most vulnerable residents through a combination of direct legal service, systemic advocacy, community education and political organizing. New York Lawyers for the Public Interest (NYLPI) advances equality and…
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Aging with I/DD as a Paradigm for the Aging Population at Large
…approach is new to healthcare, it is the norm for high quality I/DD support and service organizations. Partnering with community-based organizations to promote opportunities for community inclusion and integration is…
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A New Model for Integration of Care: The Ambulatory ICU
…high utilizing patients. Programs in six counties in California were designed to address the needs of high cost Medi-Cal (Medicaid) patients and identified three key components of comprehensive care for…
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Reimagining Integrated Care: Why Social Interventions are Vital in Providing Support for People with Serious Mental Illness
…known today as the Brightpoint/Sidney R. Baer Jr. Health Center (Baer Center). The extraordinary health outcomes of Center patients (a re-hospitalization rate of 10% compared to re-hospitalization rates of 50%…
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Activities in Group Work with Children and Adolescents
…has formed a Youth Workgroup composed of youth consumers, to contribute to the development of the Plan, along with four complementary adult groups. At statewide forums, one aspect of the…
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Integrated Health Care for Older Adults: A Model Partnership
…caregivers as part of the treatment plan. And because SPOP provides a continuum of treatment – intensive intervention, medication management, weekly therapy sessions, or non-clinical bereavement support – clients receive…
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Shattering the Silence of Selective Mutism
…“elective” suggested a preference, implying a deliberate decision not to speak, and “selective” implies a less willful component. Another important change brought about by the foundation was replacing the term…
