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Elevate Your Agencyβs Work with an Associate Board
…Richard Klein Establishing an associate board is a great resource for engaging highly motivated volunteers who are committed to helping you achieve your mission. With the right tools, these individuals…
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How the Pandemic Turned Behavioral Healthcare for Older Adults on Its Head
…of the ways we adapted. We also remained in close contact with our community partners and used this time to develop strategies to meet unprecedented demand and increasingly complex needs…
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Behavioral Health Care Agencies Join Together to Provide Access to Care Across Diverse Populations in New York City
…BHNYC was established with a mission to provide rapid access to mental health and substance abuse services that are embedded in the community and delivered by culturally-competent and linguistically diverse…
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Building Workforce Capacity to Support the Mental Health Needs of Young Children and Their Families
…For additional information, contact Evelyn J. Blanck, LCSW, Director, Early Childhood Mental Health Training and Technical Assistance Center. You can reach her at ejblanck@msn.com, or visit our website at: www.ttacny.org….
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Fight Against Threats to Behavioral Heath Funding
…come down as states allowed insurers to cut benefits to the bone, but this would come at the cost of transparent and adequate coverage—especially behavioral health coverage. Fighting Back The…
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Substance Use and Treatment Services for the LGBTQ Community
Research reveals that individuals who identify as being part of the LGBTQ community represent a higher percentage of substance users as compared to those who do not identify. In fact,…
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10 Percent of US Adults Have Drug Use Disorder at Some Point
…were evaluated using DSM-5 criteria. The study currently appears online in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Psychiatry. Similar to past research, the present study showed that people…
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Bullied by Addiction
…by comforting us, but then by preoccupying us with compulsions that are usually more painful and frustrating that the reality we hoped to cushion. Worst of all, we can’t make…
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Suffering from Mental Illness in the Orthodox Jewish Community
…alone within our very own communities. For quite some time, I struggled to feel accepted within my own Orthodox community. I lived in a Jewish neighborhood and was active in…
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Ascent into Love: Surviving Schizophrenia
…I would probably end up under a tree like Van Gogh. A life cut short. But art is not complete without an audience and neither is a struggling soul complete…
