2024 Funding Available! New York State’s Mental Illness Anti-Stigma Fund Tax Check-off Program – Deadline May 31, 2024

• By: Karin A. Wagner, PhD Amanda Saake, LMSW, CPRP New York State Office of Mental Health (OMH)
• May 6th, 2024
• funding opportunity, healthcare access, housing, mental health, stigma, workplace discrimination
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The New York State Office of Mental Health is making funds available for projects that promote mental health stigma reduction across the state. These funds are from revenues received through the voluntary tax check-off program. This program, approved by the legislature in 2016, continues to allow...

Overdose Deaths Increased in Pregnant and Postpartum Women From Early 2018 to Late 2021

• By: | The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
• February 28th, 2024
• barriers to treatment, COVID-19 pandemic impact, drug overdose deaths, healthcare access, opioid crisis, stigma and discrimination, substance use disorders
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Drug overdose deaths rose markedly between January to June 2018 and July to December 2021 among 10- to 44-year-old girls and women who were pregnant or pregnant within the previous 12 months, according to a new study by researchers at National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) at the National...