When Dr. Charles T. Browning and Lisa St. George started developing The Fusion Model in 2019, they set out to combine seemingly resistant approaches by “fusing” best practices from the biomedical and recovery models. (St. George is Vice President of Peer Support and Empowerment at RI International, and Dr. Browning
When Congress amended the Communications Act of 1934, designating 988 as the nationwide three-digit number for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, the language focused on suicide prevention and mental health crises. The landmark National Suicide Hotline Designation Act became public law in October 2020. States across the United States quickly
Tony Sanchez has been in recovery for more than two decades. He’s the director of Partnerships at Faces and Voices of Recovery and the former director of the Office of Recovery Transformation at Georgia’s Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities. He points out that while there’s been much discussion
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