by Jordana Choucair | Nov 4, 2022 | Mental Health
The National Institute for Health Care Management (NIHCM) Foundation will host a webinar on Monday discussing the unmet health needs of incarcerated people. Tune-in as leading health experts – including Vikki Wachino, Executive Director of the Health and Reentry...
by Jordana Choucair | Oct 19, 2022 | Mental Health
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra announced that hundreds of millions of dollars will be awarded to support Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHCs). The federal government is offering $1 million grants next year...
by Jordana Choucair | Oct 14, 2022 | Mental Health
A new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that most adolescents experienced negative events during the Covid-19 pandemic. Nearly three-quarters of high school students in the U.S. reported experiencing at least one adverse childhood...
by Jordana Choucair | Oct 12, 2022 | Mental Health
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) said that pediatricians should routinely screen children as young as 8 for anxiety and kids 12 and older for depression, even if they don’t have symptoms. According to the 2018-2019 National Survey of Children’s...
by Jordana Choucair | Oct 11, 2022 | Mental Health
Senator Ron Wyden acknowledged that sweeping mental health reform legislation may be pushed to 2023. Wyden said that he and Senate Finance Committee ranking member Larry Crapo “decided we weren’t going to have the debate about resources and revenue get to the point...
by Jordana Choucair | Oct 6, 2022 | Mental Health
The Mental Health In America Survey revealed that nine out of 10 adults believe there is a mental health crisis in the U.S. today. More than two-thirds of the respondents identified the opioid epidemic as a crisis rather than a problem and over half viewed the mental...
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