Successful and Schizophrenic By Elyn R. Saks New York Times January 25, 2013 THIRTY years ago, I was given a […]
eNews Bulletin Updates
ND: Cuomo Budget Limits Choice Of Anti-Psychotic Drugs
NYAPRS Note: At tomorrow’s NYAPRS Legislative Day, among the many questions hundreds of New Yorkers with psychiatric disabilities will be […]
Oss: What Matters In Making Health Homes Sustainable
NYAPRS Note: Thanks to an agreement with Open Minds, NYAPRS has been able to share a regular stream of timely […]
WSJ: NYS Budget Challenged by Potential Loss of Federal Medicaid
Budget Hole Seen After Loss of Aid More than $1 Billion in Federal Medicaid Funding Could Be Lost After Costs […]
NYAPRS 2013-4 Legislative Day Book, Rally for Reinvestment and Against Psychiatric Profiling
NYAPRS Note: The NYAPRS Public Policy Committee has finalized our 2013-4 State Budget and Legislative Agenda, which will be advanced […]
Meet New Legislative MH Committee Chairs: Assemblywoman Aileen Gunther, Senator David Carlucci
NYAPRS Note: Yesterday, state legislative leaders announced the appointment of each house’s respective mental health committee chairs. The new Assembly […]
OM: NY’s CIDP Demo Reveals 6 Lessons for Health Homes
NYAPRS Note: Between 2008-11, 6 health home-like pilots were operated under grants from the NYS Department of Health. The following […]
Fricks Pushes for Peer Services, Whole Health in US Senate Hearing Testimony
NYAPRS Note: Yesterday, we shared Mike Hogan’s very thoughtful testimony at the Senate committee hearing on mental health services in […]
U.S. Mental Health Experts Testify at Senate Hearing: Reuters
NYAPRS Note: While the articles below provide some of the telling points make yesterday in a Senate hearing on our […]
Assemblywoman Gunther Appointed Mental Health Chair
—– Original Message —–From: Harvey Rosenthal To: nyaprs at kikalwa.net <nyaprs at kikalwa.net> Sent: Thu Jan 24 14:29:59 2013 Subject: […]
Hogan Senate Testimony: What We Can Do Now
NYAPRS Note: Following is a copy of Mike Hogan’s testimony today at the Senate HELP committee hearing on mental health. […]
AP: After Shootings, Some States Rethink MH Cuts, Consider Increases
After Shootings, Some States Rethink Deep Cuts To Mental Health Care, Consider More Spending By Associated Press January 23, 2013 […]
View Today’s Senate Hearing on US Mental Health System; MH in Schools Act to be Introduced
NYAPRS Note: View morning’s live televised coverage of a Senate hearing on the US mental health system at http://www.capitolhearings.org/Hearing/SSHR00201301241000/dirksen430.aspx […]
SAMHSA News Release: New Funding Opportunity from SAMHSA
NYAPRS Note: Please see the press release below announcing two (2) Request for Applications from SAMHSA’s Statewide Consumer Network Grant […]
SAMHSA 2013 Policy Academy Awards: Bringing Recovery Supports to Scale in the Context of Affordable Care Act Implementation
NYAPRS Note: The purpose of the BRSS TACS Policy Academy Awards is to assist State, Territory, and Tribal Government substance […]
Evans: 1/3 of MH $ Should Have Flexibility for Prevention, Upstream Engagement
NYAPRS Note: A thoughtful piece by Philadelphia’s Commissioner Arthur Evans, urging for the kind of flexibility and focus on outreach, […]
NYAPRS: More Details on Proposed 2013-4 NYS Mental Health Budget
NYAPRS Note: Here’s more information about certain provisions aligned with yesterday’s release of the Governor Andrew Cuomo’s proposed 2013-4 state […]
NYAPRS Executive Seminar will to Feature Appelbaum, Manderscheid, Fisher Panel, “Re-Envisioning Mental Health Care”
NYAPRS Note: In the flurry of recent media coverage in the wake of recent tragedies that are being associated with […]
Correction: NYAPRS 2013 Budget Highlights; Come to NYAPRS Legislative Day Next Tuesday!
NYAPRS Note: A revised version based on recent clarifications. NYAPRS NYS 2013-4 Budget Highlights January 22, 2013 No Community Cuts […]
NYAPRS 2013 Budget Highlights; Come to NYAPRS Legislative Day Next Tuesday!
NYAPRS Note: A revised version based on recent clarifications. NYAPRS NYS 2013-4 Budget Highlights January 22, 2013 No […]
PS Editorial: State Can’t Be Inside Patients’ Heads
NYAPRS Note: Two thoughtful pieces in the Glens Falls (just south of the Adirondacks) daily. State Can’t Be Inside […]
MHW: Medicaid Expansion Promotes Boost In MH Care, Economy
Medicaid Expansion Promotes Boost In MH Care, Economy Mental Health Weekly January 22, 2013 View this newsletter online at wileyonlinelibrary.com […]
TH: Mental Health Debate Moves To Congress
NYAPRS Note: This week, 2 Congressional hearings will look at strategies to boost the nation’s mental health services, in keeping […]
SL: Easiest Path to MH Funding May Be Medicaid Expansion
NYAPRS Note: New York joins most other states in looking for federal funding support to make our ACA related healthcare […]
NYT: It Shouldn’t Take a Tragedy to Improve Treatment
NYAPRS Note: Today’s New York Times online ‘Room for Debate’ page focuses on ‘Guns, Safety and Mental Health: Can changes […]
Date Correction – NYAPRS webinar with Dale Jarvis
Please note the correction in the date of the webinar. Our apologies forany confusion. The correct date of this exciting […]
JOIN NYAPRS NOW and don’t miss the next Medicaid Redesign Learning Collaborative Webinar featuring National Expert Dale Jarvis on Preparing for Health Care Reform
NYAPRS Note: Does anyone really understand how healthcare reform isunfolding in New York with the emerging system of HMOs, BHOs […]
Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service on January 21, 2013
NYAPRS Note: January 21, 2013 will mark the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. federal holiday. Dr. Martin Luther King […]
Friedman: Is Mass Murder a Mental Health Issue?
Mass Murder: Is There a Mental Health Issue? By Michael Friedman, L.M.S.W. Adjunct Associate Professor, Columbia University Schools of Social […]
Experts: NY Gun Law Could Deter Mentally Ill From Seeking Treatment
Experts: NY Gun Law Could Deter Mentally Ill From Seeking Treatment By Dr. Susan Berry Breitbart.Com January 16, 2013 Mental health […]
GNS: MH Advocates Fear N.Y. Gun Law May Keep Ill From Seeking Treatment
NYAPRS Note: Consumer, family and provider groups join together in the article below to share concerns about the impact of […]
Obama Pushes Mental Health Changes as Part of Gun Package
Obama’s Gun Violence Measures: Would They Work? By Allison Brennan, CNN January 16, 213 Washington (CNN) – President Barack Obama […]
TODAY’S: 2:30 Call w HHS’ Sibelius, Next Steps After Sandy Hook
Call with Secretary Sebelius TODAY 2:30pm ET – Next steps after Sandy Hook Colleagues: Following President Obama’s announcement […]
Obama Release Gun Control and Mental Health Reforms
Now Is the Time: The President’s Plan to Protect our Children and our Communities by Reducing Gun Violence THE WHITE […]
Bazelon: Reductions in Psych Hospital Beds Not Connected with Murders or Incarcerations
NYAPRS Note: In reaction to suggestions by some that linkages between violence and mental illnesses could be best addressed by […]
NYAPRS Releases 2013 State Budget/Legislative Agenda
NYAPRS Note: Here’s NYAPRS preliminary 2013 NYS budget and legislative advocacy agenda, as developed by our NYAPRS Public Policy Committee. […]
WSJ, NYT, TU Looks at NY Gun Law’s Mental Health Impact
NYAPRS Note: Today’s papers take an analytical view of NY’s new gun control law’s impact on people with mental health […]
Culturally appropriate mental health services are needed
Culturally appropriate mental health services are needed Hilda Rosario-Escher, President and CEO of the Ibero-American Action League in […]
Vermont Recovery Coach Academy offers comprehensive, integrated peer support training
Vermont Recovery Coach Academy offers comprehensive, integrated peer support training NYAPRS Note: This special invitation comes courtesy of Patty […]
Op Eds: Let’s Stop Blaming, Failing People with Mental Illnesses
Let’s Stop Blaming The Mentally Ill By Lollie Bulter Arizona Daily Star January 15, 2013 There is a bloody war […]
Politico: Focus on Obamacare Delays MH Parity Implementation
Focus on Obamacare Delays Mental Health Law By Kyle Cheney Politico January 15, 2013 Mental health advocates say a […]
Cultural Competence Matters Report from the New York State Psychiatric Institute
NYAPRS Note: The following announcement comes from the New York State Psychiatric Institute’s Center for Excellence for Cultural Competence. […]
NYS Gun Control Deal Expands but Doesn’t Make Permanent Kendra’s Law; MH Professionals’ Reports to be Used to Remove Guns
NYAPRS Note: Forged in the crucible of media, policy maker and the gun control lobby’s linkages between several recent violent […]
A Language Access Planning Tool for Courts
A Language Access Planning Tool for Courts NYAPRS Note: One of the most essential steps towards the elimination of racial […]
Anthony: Musings on Consumer Self-Management
NYAPRS Note: Some very timely and personal comments from the ‘Godfather’ of psychiatric rehabilitation, our beloved Bill Anthony.I meant to […]
Manderscheid: Profile of the Likely Newly Insured under the ACA
Obamacare will extend health insurance to 32 million Americans. Here’s who they are. President Obama’s signature health-care law is expected […]
Hill: Rep. Blackburn Assails Violent Video Games, Seeks to Examine Impact of Psych Meds
Rep. Blackburn ‘Astounded’ By Level Of Violence In ‘Call Of Duty’ Video Game By Alicia M. Cohn – The Hill January 13, […]
NE: A Complicated Link Between Aggression and Antidepressant Drugs
NYAPRS Note: Many Americans describe the great benefits of taking psychiatric medications….but there is reason to consider some instances when […]
USA Today: Lindstrom Pushes Prevention, Community Outreach Not Forced Treatment
NYAPRS Note: A very timely on target message from Mental Health America’s new CEO, Wayne Lindstrom. Opposing view: Don’t […]
HHS Announces 106 New Accountable Care Organizations, 3 in NYS
Health And Human Services Announces 106 New Accountable Care Organizations (Acos) In Medicare, Including Three Serving NY Patients January 11, […]
Today’s Noon Public Session of Nat. Council on Disability to Discuss Biden Recommendations
TODAY – SPECIAL SESSION OF NATIONAL COUNCIL ON DISABILITY Friday, January 11, 2013 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM, ET […]
Jan 10 CMS Webinar: Exploring Medicad Health Homes
WWW.INTEGRATEDCARERESOURCECENTER.COM A joint technical assistance project of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Medicare-Medicaid Coordination Office and the Center […]
TU: Invest in MH Reforms, Not Kendra’s Law Expansion
NYAPRS Note: The Albany Times Union printed an OP ED this morning that I had titled “Invest in Cuomo’s Mental […]
Fricks: Apply for NCBH, Lily Reintegration Awards
As someone with lived experience of serious mental illness, I know that when I’ve been recognized for my struggles and […]
TU: Jan 24 Webinar on Peer Specialists Promoting Inclusion in Rural Communities
Free Webinar Peer Specialists in Rural Communities: Promoting Community Inclusion January 24, 2013 / 2:00 – 3:30 PM Greetings, […]
Jan 18 Webinar: Cornell Release New Disability Status Report
New Disability Status Report Cornell University’s Employment and Disability Institute (EDI) will host a free online webinar on Friday, January […]
NC Jan 15 Webinar: 8 Weeks to Whole Health Via Peer Support Groups
WHAM: Eight Weeks to Whole Health through Peer Support Groups Date: January 15, 2013, 2-3:30pm Eastern Presenters: Larry Fricks, Senior […]
Black: Are You Ready for March 1st Move to Electronic Delivery of SSA Benefits?
Did you know that recipients of benefits administered by the Social Security Administration (SSA) are required by March 1, 2013 […]
CIHS: Jan 18 Operationalizing Behavioral Health Homes Webinar
A (Health) Home Run: Operationalizing Behavioral Health Homes Date: January 18, 2013, 2:00 – 3:30 pm EST Webinar Presenters: […]
HC: Forced Mental Health Treatment Wrong
Forced Mental Health Treatment Wrong By Janet Van Tassel OP-ED The Hartford Courant January 7, 2013 In the past […]
Woodlock: Focus on Facts about Mental Illnesses and Violence
NYAPRS Note: Here’s a very timely message from OMH’s wonderful Acting Commission Kristin Woodlock. Acting Commissioner’s Message by Kristin […]
Come to NYAPRS NYC Jan 16 Educational Forum to Prepare for Jan 29 Legislative Day!
NYAPRS Note: The following comes to us from NYAPRS NYC leader Carla Rabinowitz, who writes that “due to Hurricane Sandy, […]
Olmstead Decision and Mental Health Systems Reform: Honberg
NYAPRS Note: The following timely piece underscore the great impact Olmstead Plans can have on reshaping state mental health service […]
TU: Cuomo’s Wed. State of the State Expected to Come w Hefty List
Cuomo’s to-do list heftier Governor’s Year Three issues include minimum wage, gambling, gun control in untested political landscape By Rick Karlin […]
WAMC: NY MH Advocates Deplore Media Coverage, Urge Alternatives to Expanding Kendra’s Law
NY Advocates: Mentally Ill Are Maligned By Dave Lucas WAMC January 4, 2013 Advocates say the mentally ill are far […]
Magellan Issues Peer Support Whole Health & Wellness Newsletter
Magellan Peer Support Whole Health & Wellness Fall 2012 Welcome to the first issue of Magellan’s Peer Support Whole Health […]
VA Peer Counselors Connect With Struggling Veterans
At VA, Peer Counselors Connect With Struggling Veterans By Bob Brewin Nextgov.com December 21, 2012 A decade ago, gripped by […]
MH Advocates Decry Defamatory Coverage, Urge Accleration of Cuomo Reforms
NYAPRS Note: A group of NYS mental health advocates pushed back yesterday against outrageous media depictions they say inaccurately and […]
Correction: Magellan Issues Peer Support Whole Health & Wellness Newsletter (with Active Links)
Magellan Peer Support Whole Health & Wellness Fall 2012 Welcome to the first issue of Magellan’s Peer Support Whole […]
SAVE THE DATE – NYAPRS 9th Annual Executive Seminar on Systems Transformation
S A V E T H E D A T E The NYAPRS Collective Presents NYAPRS 9th Annual Executive […]
DOH Health Home Consent Process Update
Update on the Health Home Consent Process NYS Department of Health Medicaid Update December 2012 The Health Home consent […]
New CMS Office Focuses on Medicare/Medicaid Enrollees, Policy Changes
The Affordable Care Act creates a new office within the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the Medicare-Medicaid Coordination Office, to […]