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His Battle with Depression Opened a Door to Helping Others – A Mental Health News Interview with Award-Winning Actor Joe “Joey Pants” Pantoliano
…cover story for this issue’s theme Recovery and The Consumer Movement. With the launch of his website, No Kidding Me Too (www.nkm2.org), and a new documentary that is geared towards…
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Caring for Older Adults With Depression
…National Council on Aging, “Behavioral Health for Older Adults.” Accessed via https://www.ncoa.org/older-adults/health/behavioral-health United States Census Bureau, “65 and Older Population Grows Rapidly as Baby Boomers Age,” 2020. Accessed via https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2020/65-older-population-grows.html…
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Aging Through a Strengths-Based Lens: Dreaming Big, Living Longer
…shared responsibility to help our staff recognize the innate strength and resilience of all individuals we serve. While complex on its face, this process is actually very simple and parallels…
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Healthy Aging Requires More Than Health
…a looming mental health crisis among our aging citizens. Comorbid physical health conditions are common among individuals with SMI, and the incidence of comorbidity rises rapidly during the aging process…
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Reducing Access Barriers through Collaborative Care
…professionals, and inspiring the addition of new medical payment codes. Founded on the premise of integrated care or the integration of behavioral health services into the primary care setting, Collaborative…
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The Critical Role of Relationships in Integrated Health Care Delivery
…health settings are social workers. While this new health care environment does require new skills, the fundamentals of the social work approach are closely aligned with delivering integrated health care…
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Co-Occurring System of Care Committees (COSOCCs): An Innovative Regional Approach to Integrated Care
…and welfare. These threats are compounded by the economic consequences of such widespread comorbidity. Individuals dually diagnosed with mental health and substance use conditions incur significantly higher healthcare costs than…
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A System in Transformation
…committed to giving every New Yorker the tools they can use to lead a life of purpose. There was something refreshing about talking through the way the delivery of care…
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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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Super Storm Sandy is Over but the Problems Are Not: A Creative Community-Based Integrated Health Care Initiative
…centers and talking with residents and workers/volunteers. Community outreach also targets houses of worship/community centers, elected officials, schools, and health care centers in the heavily affected areas. MIHT teams were…
