Justice Peer Support: On the Trauma of (and Resilience from) Incarceration

• By: Carl Alan Blumenthal, MS, MA, NYCPS (retired) Brooklyn, NY Quaker Church
• April 16th, 2025
• advocacy, criminal justice, incarceration, mental health, peer support, prison reform, recovery, social justice, Spring 2025 Issue, trauma
• 2017    0

Editorial Note: Given the recent NYS correction officers' strike, this article is especially timely. The strike, driven by concerns over staffing shortages and solitary confinement reforms, has coincided with the tragic deaths of nine incarcerated men (so far). This context underscores the urgency...

A Good Place to Live Is Critical for Older Adults with Psychiatric Disabilities: Needed Public Policy Changes

• By: Michael B. Friedman, LMSW Lisa Furst, LMSW, MPH Kimberly Williams, LMSW Paul S. Nestadt, MD Lina M. Rodriguez, MSW
• October 1st, 2017
• caregiving, criminal justice, housing stability, older adults, public policy, schizophrenia, serious mental illness, social isolation
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Not so many years ago a diagnosis of schizophrenia was a life sentence, shortened only by the low life expectancy of people with serious and persistent mental illness. Thanks to the recovery movement, we now understand that a diagnosis of schizophrenia or other serious psychotic disorder does not...