A Persian in Therapy Ķvlog Times; Melody Moezzi, 3/24/2015 My people don’t do psychotherapy. We have friends. We […]
eNews Bulletin Updates
Criminal Justice Initiatives Move to the Fore! Learn more at Ķvlog’ Executive Seminar!
CRIMINAL JUSTICE INITIATIVES MOVE TO THE FORE! Learn more at Ķvlog’ Executive Seminar! REGISTER TODAY! Strategies to help people with […]
STAR Webinar: Native American Health and Healing Approaches; Recording Available In Case You Missed It!
Ķvlog Note: Did you miss it? See the link below to access a recording of the STAR Center webinar that […]
Judge to Rule on Boarding in Jail While Awaiting Treatment
Ķvlog Note: The issue of boarding people with mental health needs in jail while awaiting treatment has come before a […]
San Antonio, Where Policing Mental Health Means Treating It
Ķvlog Note: Ķvlog and other advocates are deeply appreciative of the NYS legislature for investing in Crisis Intervention Teams for […]
LEAD Study on Employer Compliance with Parity Laws
New Study on Employer Compliance with Mental Health Parity Laws LEAD Center Policy Update; 3/30/2015 The Disability Management Employer […]
NYT: Pay For Performance Extends to NY Experiment
Ķvlog Note: This Ķvlog Times article is an important signal, as news about NY’s accountable care experiment called “DSRIP” […]
Get Details of NYS Budget Agreement: Don’t Miss Ķvlog Executive Seminar!
Get the Details of NYS Budget Agreement! Don’t Miss Ķvlog Executive Seminar REGISTER TODAY! Ķvlog has just posted on our […]
The Way We Talk About Mental Illness After Tragedies Needs To Change
The Way We Talk About Mental Illness After Tragedies Like Germanwings Needs To Change Huffington Post; Healthy Living Staff, 3/27/2015 […]
Antipsychotics Riskier for Elderly than Previously Thought
Antipsychotics Even Riskier For The Elderly Than Previously Thought Mad in America; Rob Wipond, 3/28/2015 Antipsychotic medications that are […]
6 Facts Show Why MH Is An Issue in the Black Community
6 Facts Show Why Mental Health Is an Issue in the Black Community Mic Identities; Derrick Clifton, 3/18/2015 During […]
Ķvlog First Look at NYS Budget Agreement
Ķvlog First Look at NYS Budget Agreement By Harvey Rosenthal and Briana Gilmore March 30, 2015 Last night, […]
Will Cuomo’s Bill Succeed? NY Still Charges Teenagers as Adults
Ķvlog Note: While reports from the Governor’s office indicate that the ‘Raise the Age’ proposal put forth by the Executive […]
State Leaders Decide Budget Package for Homeless Relief
Ķvlog Note: Reports from Capitol are grim this week about housing and supports for people experiencing homelessness, with few changes […]
American Doctors are Killing Themselves and No One Is Talking About It
Ķvlog Note: The article below—perhaps another to tuck away for a weekend morning—uses personal and startling imagery to describe how […]
Tonight: Experts By Experience Dialogue in Albany
Ķvlog Note: If you are in the capital region tonight, join SUNY Albany School of Social Welfare’s dynamic discussion with […]
Innovation is Imperative…and Evident at the Ķvlog’ Executive Seminar!
Innovation is Imperative…and Evident at the Ķvlog’ Executive Seminar! REGISTER TODAY! One key to the successful integration of managed behavioral […]
Occupational Therapy and MH: “It’s Not About Basket Weaving”
Occupational Therapy and Mental Health: ‘It’s Not About Basket Weaving’ The Guardian; Rachel Williams, 2/28/2015 Jane Reynolds can’t imagine doing […]
NYT: Inside America’s Toughest Federal Prison
Ķvlog Note: The article below may be one to save for a rainy weekend morning, but in its length it […]
Supreme Court Considers Police Treatment of Suspects With Psychiatric Disability
Ķvlog Note: As this case is being decided, the balance between public safety and the responsibility to people of disabilities […]
MRT Behavioral Health Subcommittee Meeting 3/27, 1-4
Ķvlog Note: Join a webcast of the MRT Behavioral Health subcommittee meeting this Friday afternoon by accessing the link below […]
Harris: Housing, Not Asylums
Ķvlog Note: Again, advocate Leah Harris lays out an eloquent and powerful agenda for recovery-based mental health reform that displaces […]
OM: Are You Suffering From Measurement Fatigue?
Ķvlog Note: This great article summarizes what many providers in NY are going through now, particularly with all the talk […]
NYT: Future Uncertain for NY Housing Program
Ķvlog Note: This article comes as a timely and essential reminder of why supportive housing is essential to people living […]
Urgent Call to Action: Tax Check Off Bill Needs Your Calls!
Ķvlog Note: This week, as we are highlighting stories of overcoming stigmatization both personally and institutionally, remember that it takes […]
Ķvlog Releases Call for Presentations for 2015 Annual Conference (4)
Ķvlog Releases Call for Presentations for 2015 Annual Conference http://www.nyaprs.org/conferences/annual-conference/documents/CallAndApp2015.pdf Ķvlog is very pleased to welcome proposals for our […]
Today @ 2pm: Native American Health and Healing Approaches from the STAR Center
Ķvlog Note: Join our friends at the STAR Center this afternoon for a webinar about health and health approaches for […]
Overcoming the Shame; Personal and Institutional Stigma, and ‘Speaking Up’
Ķvlog Note: This editorial segment offers insight into multiple facets of stigma that are not entirely fleshed out. Primary to […]
Harris’ ‘Mental Health Recovery! Now’ Featured in Earley Blog
Ķvlog Note: Noted author and family member Pete Earley regularly publishes a blog on mental health related issues that reaches […]
What’s the Best Pathway to the Future? Attending Ķvlog’ Executive Seminar!
What’s the Best Pathway to the Future? Attending Ķvlog’ Executive Seminar! Register Today! Leading national consultant Patrick Gauthier, from […]
Stigma Kills: Ron Manderscheid, PhD on the Five P’s of Reducing Stigmatization
Ron Manderscheid on Defeating Stigma: The Five “P’s” of Inclusion and Social Justice Adapted by Briana Gilmore, March 2015 […]
NYC Mayor Offers Cash to Landlords Urging to Take Homeless
Ķvlog Note: The recent plea that NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio made to city landlords is not a new scheme; […]
SAMHSA Peer Run Organization Webinar Features Ķvlog’ Edye Schwartz
Ķvlog Note: Register today for the April 3 BRSS TACS First Fridays with Ķvlog’ own Edye Schwartz, where she will […]
OMH News: Improving Language Access for Ķvlogers with Psychiatric Conditions
A Great Leap Forward: Improving Language Access for Ķvlogers with Psychiatric Conditions OMH News; Samantha Diaz, MA Cand., Oscar […]
Exercise Used to Combat Mental Health Issues
Ķvlog Note: We all know that exercise is good for our total well-being. For some of us, our initial New […]
Al Jazeera: Homeless Veterans a Year Later
Ķvlog Note: Last year, we highlighted an article done by Al Jazeera that told the stories of six veterans who […]
Combating the Stigma of Mental Illness
Ķvlog Note: For the coming week, we will be highlighting issues around mental health stigma and how to combat it […]
Pathways to Medicaid Managed Care Featured at Ķvlog’ Executive Seminar!
Pathways to Medicaid Managed Care Featured at Ķvlog’ Executive Seminar – Register Today! The successful transition of currently non-Medicaid reimbursed […]
Action Alert: Call Your State Assemblymember TODAY About Capital Funding for Community Based Providers
Ķvlog Note: Ķvlog has been actively supporting the campaign alerted below, spearheaded by CHCANYS, to earmark 25% of the capital […]
Bankruptcy Filings Detail FEGS Descent
Ķvlog Note: More details about the decline of one of the nation’s largest charities offers sober guidance to providers approaching […]
Wounded Warrior Project Tops MH Access and Trauma-Informed Care in Policy Priorities
Ķvlog Note: The policy priorities of the Wounded Warrior Project include, foremost, access to mental health care, including specialty mental […]
NY Settles With Excellus For More Mental Health Coverage
Ķvlog Note: For many of us who read news about investigations into insurance companies not complying with parity regulations, the […]
DSRIP End Date Moves to March 2020
Ķvlog Note: At last week’s Value Based Payment work group, DOH Medical Director announced that CMS had approved the state’s […]
Final Draft NYS Behavioral Health Billing Manual
Ķvlog Note: See below for more information about the rates for behavioral health services in managed care, including a billing […]
Risk Patterns Identified for PTSD Vulnerability
Ķvlog Note: Risk adjustment tools that can used across large populations—based on income, diagnosis, geography, etc.—are growing in popularity. In […]
HCBS Rate Schedule Released by NYS
Ķvlog Note: The state has released draft rates for the Home and Community Based Services list that will be contracted […]
OMH Releases HCBS Rates
Clickhereto view the HARP HCBS Fee Schedule
States Tying to Slow Antipsychotic Prescribing in Children
Ķvlog Note: Antipsychotic prescribing for youth insured by Medicaid is five-times greater than for youth that are privately insured. One […]
What it Means to “Hold Space”, and Eight Tips on How to Do it Well
Ķvlog Note: The term “Holding Space” is common in advocacy dialogues, but is not yet prevalent in mental or physical […]
Amid Rising Concern About Addiction, Universities Focus on Recovery
Amid Rising Concern About Addiction, Universities Focus On Recovery NPR; Wade Goodwyn, 3/15/2015 In murder mystery novels, when the […]
Alert: Urge State Legislators to Invest in OMH Housing Programs!
Alert: Urge Your Legislative Representatives To Invest Resources into OMH Housing Programs! Several weeks ago, […]
AP: NY Lawmakers Back Police Training On The Mentally Ill
Ķvlog Note: Last week, both the NYS Senate and Assembly backed proposals that Ķvlog, MHANYS and others have proposed to […]
Are You at the Health Care Table? Grab A Seat at Ķvlog’ Executive Seminar!
Are You at your Regional Health Care Table? Come Have A Seat at Ķvlog’ Executive Seminar-Register Today! Evidence, examples and models supporting […]
Improving Engagement, Finances, and Consumer Response With The Untapped Potential of Families: IBHI Webinar
Ķvlog Note: This webinar could be particularly beneficial for individuals who work in settings with youth in transition, persons learning […]
MHW: Feds’ Interest in Addressing BH Issues Encouraging to Field
Ķvlog Note: Coordination between advocates and agencies at the Federal level has yielded top recommendations for focus from HHS and […]
Ķvlog Update on 3 Way Budget Proposals
Click here for Ķvlog’ assessment of how our priorities are currently positioned within the Governor’s, Assembly’s and Senate budget proposals. […]
Facilitating Psychiatric Advance Directives; 3/25 Webinar From Magellan
Ķvlog Note: Magellan demonstrates in this upcoming sponsored webinar that managed care organizations have the potential for leading the way […]
The Connection Between Maternity Leave and Mental Health
Ķvlog Note: The article below makes the case for national dialogue and legislation to enhance maternity leave longevity and financial […]
Featured FOCUS: Addiction, Behavioral Health, & Primary Care at Ķvlog Executive Seminar!
Where Do Addiction, Mental Health and Primary Care Come Together? At Ķvlog Executive Seminar – Register Today! 5 50% of […]
NYS Telepsychiatry Regulation and Implementation Guidance
Ķvlog Note: Clinicians and policymakers alike have often expressed reluctance in a telepsychiatry approach, perceiving it as a simplified method […]
Mental Health Coverage Unequal in Many Obamacare plans
Mental Health Coverage Unequal in Many Obamacare Plans USA Today, Laura Ungar and Jayne O’Donnell, 3/9/2015 Insurance coverage for […]
Hearing Voices Network: $250k for US Network, A Conversation with Chair and Researcher
Ķvlog Note: The following interview describes a new opportunity for the United States to develop $250,000 in new approaches through […]
Correction: NYS Senate Budget Proposal: Ķvlog’ First Look
Here are some initial impressions from the Senate budget proposal for FY 2015-16. We’re particularly pleased about the crisis intervention, […]
NYS Senate Budget Proposal: Ķvlog’ First Look
Here are some initial impressions from the Senate budget proposal for FY 2015-16. We’re particularly pleased about the crisis intervention, […]
AP: NY Expands Mental Health Safety Net for Released Inmates
Ķvlog Note: Among Ķvlog’ top priorities this year are a variety of initiatives that span the continuum of contacts with […]
The Dialogue of Discovery; Register Now!
Ķvlog Note: Join the dialogue by registering today! An open discussion with others on the path toward recovery and liberation […]
MIA: Evidence of Inflammation, Immune, and Gut-to-brain Responses as Causes of Mental Disorders
Ķvlog Note: An article we covered on Monday noted the rise in interest of the importance of diet on mental […]
Assembly Budget Modified Cuomo’s Health Care Proposals
Ķvlog Note: The NYS Assembly took broad latitude in its one-house bill, released yesterday, relative to some of the more […]
Raise the Age and Improve Ķvlog’s Justice System
Ķvlog Note: Yesterday, advocates from around the state brought the message to Albany legislators to ‘Raise the Age’ of youthful […]
Ķvlog’ First Look at Assembly One-House Budget Bills
Ķvlog First Look Assembly One-House Budget Bills Briana Gilmore Ķvlog Public Policy Director March 10, 2015 Ķvlog Note: […]
Early Bird Registration Rates Expire Soon for Ķvlog Executive Seminar!
Ķvlog Note: We’re only FIVE WEEKS away from this year’s Ķvlog Annual Executive Seminar on Systems Transformation to be held […]
New Research on Antidepressants and Pregnancy Finds No Link to Asthma
Ķvlog Note: New research on prepartum depression and asthma offers a new resource within the vast body of inconclusive evidence […]