Supportive Housing Development: Achievements, Challenges and Opportunities

• By: Ashley Brody, MPA, CPRP Search for Change, Inc.
• October 1st, 2017
• community-based care, deinstitutionalization, healthcare costs, housing investment, Medicaid spending, public policy reform, social determinants of health, supportive housing
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Government-funded supportive housing in New York State has a richly textured history that entails an amalgam of competing philosophies, political trends and economic imperatives. A complete survey of this history is beyond the scope of this article, and a comprehensive assessment of the “current...

Policy and Practice: A Discouraging Disconnect

• By: Ashley Brody, MPA, CPRP Search for Change, Inc.
• July 1st, 2017
• adult home residents, care coordination, community-based services, deinstitutionalization, disability rights, funding shortfalls, mental health policy, supportive housing
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As soon as I learned the summer edition of Behavioral Health News would address our efforts to meet the needs of vulnerable populations, I experienced a rather sudden and dispiriting thought. In so many ways we have failed to satisfactorily address the needs of our most vulnerable citizens despite...

A New Face on Familiar Trends

• By: Ashley Brody, MPA, CPRP Search for Change, Inc.
• July 1st, 2016
• behavioral health systems, community-based services, deinstitutionalization, healthcare reform, managed care, Medicaid, social determinants of health, vulnerable populations
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Last year I attended a conference at which Dr. Michael Hogan, the former Commissioner of the New York State Office of Mental Health, delivered a keynote address on emerging issues and trends within health care reform. He distilled a seemingly inchoate mass of movements, mandates and initiatives...