Preparing Youth with Behavioral Health Needs to Enter the Workforce: A Pathway to Housing

• By: Jacqueline Brown Lisa Furst, LMSW, MPH Vibrant Emotional Health
• January 22nd, 2024
• adolescent skills centers, educational challenges, homelessness prevention, housing support, life skills education, mental health, trauma recovery, vocational training, Winter 2024 Issue, youth advocacy, youth empowerment
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Imagine sitting in a classroom, expected to absorb the curriculum, when you are extremely worried about whether your family will be evicted from their home. What can you, a young person trying to graduate from high school, do to change your circumstances? What if you have also survived traumatic...

Opioids and Homelessness in America

• By: Deborah Werner, MA, PMP Advocates for Human Potential, Inc.
• January 1st, 2020
• behavioral health, homelessness, housing support, medication-assisted treatment, opioid crisis, overdose prevention, substance use disorder, trauma-informed care
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We will present five strategies behavioral health providers can use to help combat the opioid crisis among our national homeless population. Two catastrophic public health issues have become American epidemics: opioids and homelessness. The two are clearly interrelated—opioid use/misuse...