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Peer Involvement in Integrated Physical and Behavioral Health Services: Promoting Wellness through Recovery-Oriented Care Presenters Peggy Swarbrick, Ph.D., OT, CPRP […]

NYAPRS Note: I worked at a NYS psychiatric center in the late 1970’s and saw firsthand the lifestyle that was […]

Billions In Discretionary Funds Set Aside By Gov. Andrew Cuomo Enable Him To Exercise Great Power: Insiders Cuomo allocated $3 […]

Therapists: Change in Medical Coding Threatens Mental Health Care By JoNel Aleccia, NBC News February 7, 2013 Marc Milhander conducted […]

New York Receives $186 Million Federal Grant to Create Health Benefit Exchange By Cara Matthews Journal News February 04, 2013 […]

NYAPRS Note: Larry Davidson, Ph.D., is a Professor of Psychology and Director of the Program for Recovery and Community Health […]

NYAPRS Note: New data underscoring the tremendous importance of re-doubling efforts to seriously expand smoking cessation supports for people with […]

NYAPRS Note: Here’s a fascinating view at what some say is the next step in healthcare transformation: moving from accountable […]

NYAPRS Note: This is a defining moment for our work and our field, in the midst of the most fundamental […]

NYAPRS Note: Great thanks are due to the 700 NYAPRS members who got up very early last Tuesday and came […]

NYAPRS Note: Here’s a timely OP ED from former OMH Commissioner Mike Hogan who highlights improvements in our care system […]

NYAPRS Note: The US House of Representatives’ Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, led by chairman Darrell Issa (R, California),released […]

NYAPRS Note: NYAPRS is pleased to work with Columbia University Medical Center and Dr. Scott Stroup in the development of […]

U.S. Begins New Audit As Cuomo Tries To Deal With $15 Billion In Medicaid Overcharges State To Lose $1.1B A […]

The Opportunities for Recovery and Peer Services in NYS Healthcare Reform Join us for a Webinar on February 13 <https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/178640401> […]

NYAPRS Note: In this year’s NYS Executive Budget proposal is a $3 million start up allocation for a managed care […]

NYAPRS Note: An extraordinary discussion on mandated psychiatric treatment, started by Massachusetts psychiatrist Christopher Gordan’s concerns that this approach ‘may […]

NYAPRS Note: Dale Jarvis is one of the nation’s smartest, most sought consultants whose prophetic vision of where our behavioral […]

NYAPRS Note: The following provides details about BHbusiness: Mastering Essential Business Operations, learning networks funded by SAMHSA and administered by […]

Mental Health Treatment Should Focus On Recovery By Deron Drumm and Greg Benson  The Hartford Courant  January 25, 2013 As […]

Why Don’t Clinicians See Enough Recovery? By Larry Davidson Recovery to Practice May 28, 2010 If so many people recover […]

NYAPRS Note: A very timely piece, including a critical point: “some criminal justice experts say it makes more sense to […]

Yoga May Have Positive Effects On Major Psychiatric Disorders, Including Depression, Schizophrenia, ADHD And Sleep Complaints Medical News Today  January […]

Latinos Lack Mental Health Treatment, Study Says By Kacy Capobres  Fox News Latino January 24, 2013   As the national debate […]

NYAPRS Note: This is a defining moment for our work and our field, in the midst of the most fundamental […]

Senator Parker Addresses Mental Health Issues In New York State Parker Introduces a Legislative Package Addressing the Needs of the […]

NYAPRS Note: Yesterday’s NYAPRS Albany Legislative Day drew 700 enthusiastic mental health advocates from across New York to share their […]

Optum/NYAPRS Relief Effort Aids Displaced Adult Home Residents January 29, 2013   Thanks to a timely donation, emergency support is […]

Thursday, January 31, 2013  3:00 to 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time The Use of Medications in Recovery-Oriented Practice FEATURING  Ron Diamond, […]

Acting Commissioner’s Message by Kristin M. Woodlock, OMH Acting Commissioner This year, the Acting Commissioner’s Message will focus on people […]

NYAPRS Note: Here’s the final schedule for tomorrow’s NYAPRS LegislativeDay in Albany. Please see below for parking information. See you […]

NYAPRS Note: Does anyone really understand how healthcare reform is unfolding in New York with the emerging system of HMOs, […]

Successful and Schizophrenic By Elyn R. Saks  New York Times  January 25, 2013 THIRTY years ago, I was given a […]

NYAPRS Note: At tomorrow’s NYAPRS Legislative Day, among the many questions hundreds of New Yorkers with psychiatric disabilities will be […]

NYAPRS Note: Thanks to an agreement with Open Minds, NYAPRS has been able to share a regular stream of timely […]

Budget Hole Seen After Loss of Aid More than $1 Billion in Federal Medicaid Funding Could Be Lost After Costs […]

NYAPRS Note: The NYAPRS Public Policy Committee has finalized our 2013-4 State Budget and Legislative Agenda, which will be advanced […]

NYAPRS Note: Yesterday, state legislative leaders announced the appointment of each house’s respective mental health committee chairs. The new Assembly […]

NYAPRS Note: Between 2008-11, 6 health home-like pilots were operated under grants from the NYS Department of Health. The following […]

NYAPRS Note: Yesterday, we shared Mike Hogan’s very thoughtful testimony at the Senate committee hearing on mental health services in […]

NYAPRS Note: While the articles below provide some of the telling points make yesterday in a Senate hearing on our […]

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NYAPRS Note: Following is a copy of Mike Hogan’s testimony today at the Senate HELP committee hearing on mental health. […]

After Shootings, Some States Rethink Deep Cuts To Mental Health Care, Consider More Spending By Associated Press  January 23, 2013 […]

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   […]

NYAPRS Note: Please see the press release below announcing two (2) Request for Applications from SAMHSA’s Statewide Consumer Network Grant […]

NYAPRS Note: The purpose of the BRSS TACS Policy Academy Awards is to assist State, Territory, and Tribal Government substance […]

NYAPRS Note: A thoughtful piece by Philadelphia’s Commissioner Arthur Evans, urging for the kind of flexibility and focus on outreach, […]

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 Note: In the flurry of recent media coverage in the wake of recent tragedies that are being associated with […]

NYAPRS Note: A revised version based on recent clarifications. NYAPRS NYS 2013-4 Budget Highlights January 22, 2013 No Community Cuts […]

NYAPRS Note: A revised version based on recent clarifications.   NYAPRS NYS 2013-4 Budget Highlights                               January 22, 2013   No […]

NYAPRS Note: Two thoughtful pieces in the Glens Falls (just south of the Adirondacks) daily.   State Can’t Be Inside […]

Medicaid Expansion Promotes Boost In MH Care, Economy Mental Health Weekly  January 22, 2013 View this newsletter online at wileyonlinelibrary.com […]

NYAPRS Note: This week, 2 Congressional hearings will look at strategies to boost the nation’s mental health services, in keeping […]

NYAPRS Note: New York joins most other states in looking for federal funding support to make our ACA related healthcare […]

NYAPRS Note: Today’s New York Times online ‘Room for Debate’ page focuses on ‘Guns, Safety and Mental Health:  Can changes […]

Please note the correction in the date of the webinar. Our apologies forany confusion. The correct date of this exciting […]

NYAPRS Note: Does anyone really understand how healthcare reform isunfolding in New York with the emerging system of HMOs, BHOs […]

NYAPRS Note:  January 21, 2013 will mark the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. federal holiday. Dr. Martin Luther King […]

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 By Dr. Susan Berry Breitbart.Com  January 16, 2013   Mental health […]

NYAPRS Note: Consumer, family and provider groups join together in the article below to share concerns about the impact of […]

Obama’s Gun Violence Measures: Would They Work? By Allison Brennan, CNN   January 16, 213   Washington (CNN) – President Barack Obama […]

Call with Secretary Sebelius TODAY 2:30pm ET – Next steps after Sandy Hook   Colleagues:   Following President Obama’s announcement […]

Now Is the Time: The President’s Plan to Protect our Children and our Communities by Reducing Gun Violence THE WHITE […]

NYAPRS Note: In reaction to suggestions by some that linkages between violence and mental illnesses could be best addressed by […]

NYAPRS Note: Here’s NYAPRS preliminary 2013 NYS budget and legislative advocacy agenda, as developed by our NYAPRS Public Policy Committee. […]

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     Hilda Rosario-Escher, President and CEO of the Ibero-American Action League in […]

Vermont Recovery Coach Academy offers comprehensive, integrated peer support training   NYAPRS Note: This special invitation comes courtesy of Patty […]

Let’s Stop Blaming The Mentally Ill By Lollie Bulter  Arizona Daily Star  January 15, 2013 There is a bloody war […]