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NYAPRS Note: The following investigative report raises very serious questions about the Joint Commission’s oversight of US private and public […]

Housing Specialist Job Posting Peer Advocate Job Posting

NYAPRS Note: Upon beginning his third term yesterday at an inaugural address on Ellis Island, NYS Governor Andrew Cuomo pledged […]

NYAPRS Note: A powerful example of why we’ve joined with our colleagues to fight for a 2.9% COLA in the […]

NYAPRS Note: NYAPRS has long worked to advance policies that promote criminal justice system diversion and re-entry services and to […]

NYAPRS Note: NYAPRS is kicking off a series of regional forums over the next few months with a January 16 […]

NYAPRS Note: Thanks to a strong advocacy push by more than two dozen statewide organizations and 5 national groups representing […]

NYAPRS Note: Governor Cuomo released details of the schedule for implementation of the minimum wage increase across NYS. In addition, […]

ACA Repeal Wouldn’t Stop Transition to Value-Based Payment, Efforts to Lower Drug Spending Even if the Affordable Care Act is […]

NYAPRS Note: Don’t miss this very timely live event and lineup that includes NYAPRS Co-President Jeff McQueen. BRSS TACS December […]

NYAPRS Note: The following comes from NYAPRS’ Len Statham: “Our friends at the Northeast & Caribbean Addiction Technology Transfer Center […]

NYAPRS Note: Attached please find the final report from the “Strengthening Service Coordination for Older Adults with Serious Mental Illness […]

NYAPRS Note: NYAPRS is very pleased to provide details of an additional session in the Hudson River Valley region of […]

ACTION NEEDED THIS WEEK! Require that Insurers and Health Plans Demonstrate Their Compliance with Federal and State Mental and Substance […]

NYAPRS’ Annual Legislative Day is on Tuesday, February 26, 2019! NYAPRS Note: NYAPRS is very pleased to invite our members […]

NYAPRS Note: A wonderful counter to Pro Publica’s/New York Times’ recent piece suggesting that supported community housing is a failed […]

NYAPRS Note: Here’s an excellent new piece by longtime NYS based mental health advocate Michael Friedman assailing the false connection […]

NYAPRS Note: The following comes from Technical Assistance Collaborative* director and former NJ mental health commissioner Kevin Martone, who wrote […]

ACTION NEEDED TODAY Require that Insurers and Health Plans Demonstrate Their Compliance with Federal and State Mental and Substance Use […]

NYAPRS’ Annual Legislative Day is on Tuesday, February 26, 2019!  NYAPRS Note: The crises in community housing, workforce recruitment and […]

NYAPRS Note: The following comes courtesy of NYAPRS Director of Employment and Economic Self-sufficiency Initiatives Len Statham, who writes “this […]

New York Times Assails NY Adult Home Resident Policy….but Misses the Full Story Harvey Rosenthal, NYAPRS Yesterday’s ProPublica/NYTimes investigative piece […]

NYAPRS Note: Psychiatric advance directives can play a crucial role in ensuring that effective and engaging care is delivered to […]

Correction: NYAPRS’ Annual Legislative Day is on Tuesday, February 26, 2019! NYAPRS is very pleased to invite our members and […]

NYAPRS Note: Psychiatric advance directives can play a crucial role in ensuring that effective and engaging care is delivered to […]

NYAPRS’ Annual Legislative Day is on Tuesday, February 28, 2019! NYAPRS Note: NYAPRS is very pleased to invite our members […]

NYS Office of Mental Health Employment Opportunity Special Assistant Office of Consumer Affairs The Office of Mental Health (OMH) is […]

Call for Proposals 13th Annual Conference for NYC Working Peer Specialists At New York University’s Kimmel Center Thursday, July 18, […]

Governor Cuomo Announces More Than $9 Million in Federal Funding Secured to Expand Opioid Addiction Treatment Services in New York […]

NYAPRS Note: NYAPRS is very pleased to provide details of an additional session in the Hudson River Valley region of […]

NYAPRS Note: The following comes from the Sexual Assault and Mental Health Project’s Chrys Ballerano, who writes “join us this […]

NYAPRS Note: New York has seen a drop of about 25% of youth arrests and incarcerations since the first phase […]

NYAPRS Note: The following comes from NYAPRS’ Len Statham, who writes that “an important Social Security Work Incentive demonstration project […]

NYAPRS Note: Don’t miss next Wednesday’s ‘Ask Me Anything’ live Q&A interactive webinar on Employment hosted by the Center for […]

NYAPRS Note: People living with mental health conditions are grossly overrepresented in our criminal justice system in large part because […]

NYAPRS Note: Please take a few minutes today to urge Governor Cuomo to double the annual budget for the geriatric […]

NYAPRS Note: Newly released figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirm that rates of death by suicide […]

Correction: NYAPRS’ Annual Legislative Day is on Tuesday, February 26, 2019! NYAPRS is very pleased to invite our members and […]

NYAPRS Note: Please urge Gov. Cuomo to approve a bill that would help promote hiring of New Yorkers with disabilities […]

NYAPRS’ Annual Legislative Day is on Tuesday, February 28, 2019! NYAPRS Note: NYAPRS is very pleased to invite our members […]

NYAPRS Note: NYAPRS is a very active member of Bring it Home, a NYS coalition of community-based mental health housing […]

NYAPRS Note: The following comes from Community Access and the NYAPRS Board’s Carla Rabinowitz, who writes “ the stakeholders meeting […]

NYAPRS Note: Solitary confinement is increasingly viewed as torture, especially for people with extensive mental health conditions. Accordingly, NYAPRS will […]

NYAPRS Note: The following comes from Andrew Karhan of the NYS Office of Mental Health. NYS is hosting five regional […]

NYAPRS Note: Congratulations to the MHA of Rochester and Chacku Mathai for hosting an extremely important and timely event. Initiative […]

So sorry all! Registration for this event is now closed. Stay tuned for times and dates for state Listening Sessions […]

Thursday, December 6, 2018 9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. SUNY System Administration Building – Zimpher Boardroom 353 Broadway, Albany, NY […]

Lack of Housing and Mental Health Disabilities Exacerbate One Another by Heidi Schultheis  Center for American Progress  November 20, 2018 […]

By Felice J. Freyer Boston Globe  November 26, 2018 A Boston company is taking the concept of retail health care […]

NYAPRS Note: The following approach goes one step beyond the Crisis Intervention Team approach that trains police officers to better […]

NYAPRS Note: “A Philadelphia effort called Safe Haven puts homeless patients into short-term housing and treats them for behavioral health […]

NYAPRS Note: “Although there are several important exceptions, measurable differences in brain biology appear to contribute only a fraction of […]

NYAPRS Note: lawmakers, survivors of incarceration, family members, and a broad cross-section of advocacy groups held joint speakouts across New […]

NYAPRS Note: A coalition of NYS community-based primary care, home care, and behavioral healthcare service providers including NYAPRS have been […]

ACTION ALERT! Join the Call to Support Money Follows the Person! November 16, 2018 As the holiday season draws near, […]

Don’t be deterred by the weather! Join us TODAY, Thursday at a pivotal housing forum at 5:00 pm at Gustavos […]

A Real Chance at Criminal Justice ReformSessions is out. Trump is on board. It’s time to put these necessary changes […]

NYAPRS Note: With a Democratic majority in the NYS Senate, this should be the year for real criminal justice reform […]

NYAPRS Note: Here’s some very timely training and technical assistance opportunities that are being offered by our friends at SAMHSA’s […]

A Closer Look at the Federal Policy Change to Allow Medicaid to Pay for State/Private Hospital StaysHarvey Rosenthal, NYAPRS Background […]

CMS May Allow Hospitals to Pay for Housing Through MedicaidBy Paul Barr  | Modern Healthcare November 14, 2018 HHS Secretary Alex Azar on […]

From Crain’s….Fresh off the Democrats’ triumph in the House, “Medicare for All” proponents are seizing the moment.IN THE HOUSE: JAYAPAL […]

NYAPRS Note: Yesterday’s announcement by US Health and Human Services Secretary that states will now be able to apply to […]

NYAPRS Note: The following comes from new NYS Ombudsman Project Director Stephanie Campbell. The Office of Mental Health and the […]

NYAPRS Note: NYAPRS Note: The economy is thriving. It’s an employee’s market and people who come to our services want to […]

Uber and Lyft Are Giving Discounted Rides to Vote on Tuesday. Here’s How To Get Oneby Jennifer Calfas   Time  November […]

Dems, GOP In Bitter Fight For Control Of The NYS SenateBy Ken Lovett NY Daily News  November 5, 2018  ALBANY […]