Lessons Learned in Effectively Advancing Co-Occurring Competent Care

• By: William A. Mullane, PhD Westchester Jewish Community Services (WJCS) Stephanie Marquesano, JD The Harris Project Michael Orth, MSW Westchester County Department of Community Mental Health
• October 23rd, 2023
• behavioral health, co-occurring disorders, co-occurring system of care, evidence-based practices, Fall 2023 Issue, integrated care, mental health screening, serious mental illness, substance use disorders, suicidal ideation, suicide, suicide risk assessment, systemic change, treatment, warning signs
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Recently, there has been great emphasis on enhancing organizational co-occurring competency and for good reason. Climbing overdose and suicide rates, with bi-directional contribution from mental health (MH) and substance use disorders (SUD), reflect our need to do better serving those with multiple...

45 Years Within Human Services – Reflections and Where We Go From Here

• By: Frank L. Bird MEd, BCBA, LABA Melmark
• October 7th, 2022
• advocacy, compassionate care, deinstitutionalization, evidence-based practices, Fall 2022 Issue, fidelity, human services, leadership, mentoring, perseverance, service delivery, standards of excellence, support staff
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I have had the privilege of working within the field of autism over the past 45 years. For 24 of those years, I have been honored to work at Melmark, a multi-state human service provider with premier private special education schools, professional development, training, and research centers,...

NYS Governor Hochul Announces $9.5 Million in Federal Funding to Support the Delivery of Addiction Prevention Services

• By: | The Office of The Governor of New York State
• January 6th, 2022
• COVID-19, evidence-based practices, prevention, substance use disorder, Winter 2022 Issue
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Governor Hochul recently announced the availability of $9.5 million to expand evidence-based practices for substance use disorder prevention services to youth, families, and communities in New York State. This federal funding will help support providers who had delivery of their services impacted...

New York State Office of Mental Health Using Medication-Assisted Treatment and Other Resources to Fight the Opioid Epidemic

• By: Ann M. Sullivan, MD New York State Office of Mental Health (OMH)
• January 1st, 2020
• buprenorphine access, evidence-based practices, integrated treatment, medication-assisted treatment, mental health, naloxone distribution, opioid epidemic, opioid use disorder
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Every day, more than 130 people die in the United States as a result of opioid overdose. The opioid abuse epidemic has become a national public health crisis with devastating economic, societal and human costs. People with mental illnesses served in the public mental health system have...

Meeting the Workforce Challenge at Outreach

• By: Debra Pantin Outreach Development Corporation
• July 1st, 2019
• addiction treatment, behavioral health workforce, continuing education, employee engagement, evidence-based practices, professional development, staff retention, workforce shortage
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As behavioral health care providers confront the unrelenting opioid epidemic, in an environment of rapidly evolving reforms in health delivery and payment systems, one theme continues to resonate: the importance of a vital workforce. It comes as no surprise that compounding the reality of systems...

The Center for Practice Innovations: A Resource for the Behavioral Healthcare Workforce

• By: Nancy H Covell, PhD Sapana R. Patel, PhD Paul J. Margolies, PhD Helle Thorning, PhD, LCSW Ilana Nossel, MD Columbia University Lisa B. Dixon, MD, MPH New York State Psychiatric Institute
• July 1st, 2019
• behavioral health workforce, continuing education, evidence-based practices, implementation support, integrated care, quality improvement, technical assistance, workforce training
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The New York State Office of Mental Health (OMH) and the Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, established the Center for Practice Innovations at Columbia Psychiatry and New York State Psychiatric Institute (CPI) in 2007 to promote the widespread use of evidence-based practices developed...