Nov 30, 2020 | Mental Health Update
Over the weekend, Governor Cuomo signed a bill that created an Advisory Council for the Trauma Informed Needs of Frontline Workers. This is legislation that MHANYS has been working on this session with the leadership of the Mental Hygiene Committees in the...
Nov 25, 2020 | Mental Health Update
The New York State Office of Mental Health will host a webinar on Ambulatory System Infection Control for Upstate NY Providers (All counties except Suffolk, Nassau, NYC, Westchester and Rockland) on Tuesday, December 1, at 3:00pm You can register for the webinar here....
Nov 24, 2020 | Mental Health Update
Recently the Kennedy Forum, one of the nation’s leading organization dedicated to the implementation of the Federal Parity laws, wrote a blog post on the innovative work being done in New York in regard to behavioral health parity. As we have known for years, some...
Nov 24, 2020 | Mental Health Update
MHANYS is very excited to announce that the innovative CarePath, Coach Certification Training is now on-line. Join the increasing number of CarePath Coaches that are helping peers and their family members transition to better health and wellness. MHANYS is also...
Nov 23, 2020 | Mental Health Update
Behavioral health advocates across New York State continue to make the case as to how dramatically our sector will be impacted by the twenty percent withholds. There is also a far larger systemic question as to how we can continue to provide quality services that are...
Nov 20, 2020 | Mental Health Update
Peers, families and behavioral health providers bare witness every day to the impact of COVID to mental health and how our already underfunded community services would be devastated by twenty percent withholds that could end up as cuts. This problem is certainly not...
