The NYSPA Report: Taking Stock and Taking Leave

• By: Barry B. Perlman, MD NY State Psychiatric Association (NYSPA)
• April 1st, 2017
• access to care, behavioral health policy, healthcare reform, Medicaid and Medicare, mental health advocacy, mental health parity, serious mental illness, substance use disorders
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Advocacy must be unending, ongoing work because there is always more to accomplish and always the danger that hard-won gains may be undone. For the past 14 years I have either written or edited the work of guest columnists for the quarterly NYSPA Report in Behavioral Health News (BHN) or in Mental...

The Presidential Election: Time for Behavioral Health Advocates to Speak Out

• By: Michael B. Friedman, LMSW Columbia University School of Social Work
• October 1st, 2016
• access to care, Affordable Care Act, behavioral health reform, healthcare policy, mental health system, quality of care, social determinants of health, workforce development
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The next President of the United States can act to improve or to harm the American mental health system. Behavioral health advocates should speak out now to provide the political pressure that will be needed to improve rather than to harm the system. Preserve The Affordable Care Act Perhaps the...