Dr. April Naturale on COVID-19 Trauma, Grief, and Growth
Dr. April Naturale on COVID-19 disaster recovery and community resilience.
COVID-19: Matthew Holtsclaw on Keeping Seclusion and Restraint at Bay
Matthew Holtsclaw shares how he developed and implemented the Renew seclusion and restraint (S&R) initiative. At a time when physically distancing from each other is critical to flatten the COVID-19 curve, the need to reduce S&R has never been greater.
Major Sam Cochran Says to Leaders, “Support and Keep Open Essential Mental Health Crisis Services”
CIT officers are worried about what will happen to people with mental illness if leaders strip down to essential services and mental health crisis services aren’t deemed so. Maj. Cochran said that law enforcement knows what that looks like, and they don’t want to go back.
COVID-19: A Fragmented Behavioral Health Crisis System Becomes Even More So
As outpatient treatment centers close down, and some crisis services shift to telehealth, people facing mental health challenges are finding an already fragmented system even more so.
Disaster Expert Jeannette David Says the Past Might Inform Us on What’s to Come in Behavioral Health
Jeannette David has provided administrative oversight as well as training and consultation in the Federal Emergency Management Agency Crisis Counseling Assistance and Training Program (FEMA CCP) in the aftermath of numerous disasters. She shares what's likely in store for behavioral health during and after COVID-19.
Part 2: The Barrier of Loneliness and the Physical Health Impacts
“The barrier of loneliness: the palpable, desperate need of the human animal to be with his fellow man. Up there … is an enemy known as isolation.” The Washington Post recently shared the quote above from a 1959 Twilight Zone episode that explored the impacts of a man being all alone.
Protecting At-Risk Healthcare Workers During COVID-19
Healthcare workers on the front lines have become disproportionately impacted by COVID-19. Combine that with advancing age or underlying conditions, and it’s a frightening reality for many.
NASMHPD Breaks Down How the CARES Act $2 Trillion Stimulus Benefits Behavioral Healthcare
The CARES Act, designed to boost the U.S. economy hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic, includes $425 million for SAMHSA’s health surveillance and program support “to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus, domestically or internationally.”
COVID-19: Industry Disruptor, Dr. Ursula Whiteside, Makes Life-Saving Mental Health Skills Accessible
NowMattersNow.org is a critical resource as Americans, whose day-to-day lives have been disrupted, navigate the coronavirus pandemic crisis and the challenges that come with it, such as isolation, unemployment, housing instability, and illness.
What’s the Deal with Masks? We’ve Got Answers.
Since the beginning of the mask discussion in the United States, the mixed messaging has been baffling. Or, more accurately, the swing from ‘surgical masks don’t work’ to ‘use a bandana or scarf’ because it’s better than nothing is striking, and reflects the dire challenge of this coronavirus time: there’s
