NYC Health + Hospitals has graduated over 50 individuals with lived experience in mental health of substance abuse conditions from their Peer Academy, a program dedicated to training peer counselors, according to a Jul 24 news release shared with Becker's.
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Cherokee Nation has developed a behavioral health scholarship to support students living inside and outside the reservation as they enter the behavioral health field, the the Tahlequah Daily Press reported July 22.
Behavioral health care startup NeuroFlow has acquired Capital Solution Design, parent company of Behavioral Health Lab and BHL Touch, a technology infrastructure provider for the Department of Veterans Affairs.
At least nine facilities providing therapy for children with autism in Colorado have closed in the past year and a half, The Colorado Sun reported July 24.
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CMS approved California and Kentucky's requests for implementing community-based mobile crisis intervention teams to provide Medicaid-covered mental health and substance use crisis services, making a total of six states to adopt these crisis services.
Patients with major depressive disorder who have not seen desirable results from medication have now started clinical trials analyzing the effectiveness of a new brain stimulation technology.
CMS approved California and Kentucky proposals to establish community-based mobile crisis intervention teams, according to a June 20 news release shared with Becker's.
KFF compiled a list of states with the corresponding rate of major depressive episodes reported in adolescents aged 12 to 17 within a year.