Socializing Safely This Season: National Impaired Driving Prevention Month

• By: Captain Jeffrey A. Coady, PsyD, ABPP The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
• December 21st, 2021
• alcohol-impaired driving, driving, drunk driving, holidays, impaired driving prevention month, prevention, safety, substance use
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December. As individuals, we look forward to getting together with friends and family to celebrate the holidays. It’s also a time when prevention can play an especially important role. December is a deadly month for impaired driving. The National Highway Safety Traffic Administration...

Challenges and Solutions: Mental Health Responses During COVID-19

• By: David Kamnitzer, LCSW-R Mindy Liss Institute for Community Living (ICL)
• October 1st, 2020
• childhood trauma, COVID-19, fall 2020 issue, mental health, substance use, suicide
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During the most challenging times, even in the face of an unprecedented crisis — The Institute for Community Living (ICL) seeks to implement strengths-based approaches to helping people cope and eventually to thrive once again. This holds true whether a person is living with a childhood trauma,...