BEHAVIORAL HEALTH NEWS TM YOUR TRUSTED SOURCE OF INFORMATION, EDUCATION, ADVOCACY AND RESOURCES FALL 2017 ISSUE FROM THE LOCAL, STATE, AND NATIONAL NEWS SCENE VOL. 5 NO. 1 The Vital Role of Housing in the Recovery Process A Healthy Place to Rest Your Head By Andrew Bloch, LCSW, nesses, these may have been inadequate to Marcie Katz, LCSW, provide the needed additional structure and and Fabricio Loza support. A housing application is com- NewYork-Presbyterian Westchester pleted by the social worker and handed off Division, Second Chance Program to Assertive Community Treatment teams or care coordinators to follow-up on once the individual is back in the community. he Second Chance Program at While a reasonable plan, our experience NewYork-Presbyterian West- tells us that such a plan is fraught with nu- chester Division is an in-patient merous pitfalls for this population that psychiatric rehabilitation pro- make the successful transition to more sup- Tgram for men and women with difficult to portive and stable housing unlikely. These treat psychotic disorder illnesses. Most of include skills deficits such as how to man- the individuals referred to the Second age residual symptoms, impaired problem Chance Program (SCP) have struggled solving skills that can lead to impulsive with being able to remain in the commu- decision-making and a return to maladap- nity. In addition, they have often had nu- tive coping strategies that have failed to merous hospital admissions to acute units work in the past. that have failed to break the cycle of re- More than half of the patients referred peated hospitalizations or to provide the to Second Chance Program (SCP) are ei- necessary structure, safety and support ther street homeless, residing in shelters or needed to help these individuals increase transitional living residences, or patients community tenure and begin to thrive Andrew Bloch, LCSW, Marcie Katz, LCSW, and Fabricio Loza who would benefit from a higher level of outside of the hospital setting. The goal of supportive housing than they currently the SCP is to teach the adaptive skills In a general inpatient behavioral health of interventions. They will usually dis- have. The focus of the program’s treatment needed to live safely in a community set- hospital setting the focus is on crisis stabi- charge patients back to where they were is rehabilitative, with up to 90-120 days for ting, reducing the need for hospitalization lization, and the treatment teams on the residing prior to admission. For those with and improving the ability to thrive. acute units are more limited in their scope difficult to treat psychotic disorder ill- see A Healthy Place on page 6 Leaders Honored at MHNE Annual Awards Reception By Ira Minot The event was attended by many ex- Executive Director ecutives, program directors, consumers, Mental Health News Education corporate partners, and state and local state agencies from both communities, who enjoyed a lively networking opportu- n June 29th, Mental Health News nity before the summer vacation season. 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Minot, LMSW, Founder and Executive Director Mental Health News Education, Inc. 460 Cascade Drive, Effort, Pennsylvania 18330 David H. Minot, BA, Associate Director E-mail: [email protected] Phone: (570) 629-5960 BEHAVIORAL HEALTH NEWS ~ FALL 2017 visit our website: www.mhnews.org PAGE 3 Table of Contents Editorial Calendar 1 A Healthy Place to Rest Your Head Behavioral Health News 1 Leaders Honored at MHNE Annual Awards Reception Theme and Deadline Calendar 4 ICL Housing: Like a Nice Piece of CAKE 6 Why Are We Still Criminalizing Mental Illness ? Fall (2) 2017 Issue: 8 A Good Place To Live Is Critical for Older Adults “Addressing the Opioid Epidemic” Deadline: October 1, 2017 10 WellLife Network: Offering Vital Residential Services 12 NYSPA: Recovery and the Federal Fair Housing Act Winter 2018 Issue: 10 NYSPA Report: Repeal and Replace Should Not Harm “Understanding and Treating Co-occurring Disorders” 14 Supportive Housing: Challenges and Opportunities Deadline: January 8, 2018 16 People of Color in Leadership Roles Spring 2018 Issue: 18 Crisis Respite: An Effective Intervention of Recovery “Harm Reduction: Theory and Practice” 19 Mental Illness and Homeless Baby-Boomers Deadline: April 1, 2018 20 Consumer Perspectives: Supported Housing is Key 21 More Than a Roof Summer 2018 Issue: “A Special Issue: Now in Development” 22 MHNE Leadership Award Reception: Thank You Sponsors Deadline: July 1, 2018 23 Homeless Older Adults: Tools for Aging in Place 23 Mobile Teams: A Catalyst for Success To Submit an Article or Advertisement 24 The Housing Prescription Call: (570) 629-5960 Email: [email protected] 24 Let’s Strengthen Sober Housing Resources To Receive Hard Copies of Behavioral Health News 25 The Step-Up Intervention Program You Must Subscribe or Order Multiple Copies 25 For Those on the Threshold