Commentary: Break Down Walls Between Services for Mental Health, Addiction

• By: James Hollywood, LCSW Melissa J. Earle Times Union
• January 14th, 2025
• addiction treatment, community partnerships, education, health equity, innovative programming, mental health, opioid, substance use disorders, Winter 2025 Issue, workforce
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One in four. That’s how many adults in the U.S. living with severe mental illness are also living with substance use disorders. In New York, 1.4 million people are living with both mental health and substance use challenges. Yet these issues are too often addressed as distinct and separate,...

How Faith Communities Can Help Reduce Mental Health Stigma

• By: Rabbi Simcha Weinstein Families Together in New York State
• April 18th, 2023
• advocacy, community partnerships, faith communities, faith leaders, mental health services, mental health stigma, mental health treatment, Spring 2023 Issue, stigma, stigma reduction
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Reducing the stigma around mental health requires a multifaceted approach in which individuals, communities, and society at large all have a role to play. But for many people who are seeking help for a mental health or substance use problem, their first point of contact isn’t a doctor or a...