2024 Funding Available! New York State’s Mental Illness Anti-Stigma Fund Tax Check-off Program – Deadline May 31, 2024

• By: Karin A. Wagner, PhD Amanda Saake, LMSW, CPRP New York State Office of Mental Health (OMH)
• May 6th, 2024
• funding opportunity, healthcare access, housing, mental health, stigma, workplace discrimination
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The New York State Office of Mental Health is making funds available for projects that promote mental health stigma reduction across the state. These funds are from revenues received through the voluntary tax check-off program. This program, approved by the legislature in 2016, continues to allow...

Sleep Issues: An Opportunity for Integrated Care

• By: Lied Metcalf, BSN FEGS Health and Human Services Amanda Saake, LMSW, CPRP The Coalition for Behavioral Health
• October 1st, 2014
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Who should take the lead when issues of sleep problems come up? Is the sleep problem a physical or a behavioral health issue? If a client only has diabetes, there is no question that the lead in the integrated team needs to be the primary care provider (PCP) or endocrinologist. If a person only has...