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...

Insights From Four Stigma-Reducing Roundtables Organized by the New York State Office of Mental Health and Behavioral Health News

• By: Suzanne B. Feeney, MBA Helen-Maria (Marilena) Lekas, PhD David Minot James Plastiras James Rodriguez, LCSW, PhD Karin A. Wagner, PhD Philip T. Yanos, PhD Jessica Zahn
• April 18th, 2023
• anticipated stigma, behavioral health inequities, community-based agencies, cultural humility, experienced stigma, health care, internalized stigma, intersectionality, lived experience, mental health, recovery, roundtables, social services, Spring 2023 Issue, stigma, substance use, vicarious stigmatization
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The New York State Office of Mental Health (OMH) in partnership with Behavioral Health News (BHN) organized four roundtable discussions as part of a larger strategic plan to reduce the stigma of mental illness. The roundtable panels consisted of experts working in community-based agencies, most...