The Association for Community Affiliated Plans (ACAP) and the SAMHSA-HRSA Center for Integrated Health Solutions (CIHS) has released a fact sheet profiling four communities that brought together teams from safety net health plans, community health centers, and community behavioral health provider organizations to integrate physical and behavioral health for Medicaid beneficiaries. Not-for-profit safety net health plans […]
Special Populations
America’s Youngest Outcasts: A Report Card on Child Homelessness
Nearly 2.5 million children across the United States, or one in thirty, experienced homelessness in 2013, up some 8 percent on a year-over-year basis and an historic high, a report from the National Center on Family Homelessness at the American Institutes for Research finds. According to the report, America’s Youngest Outcasts: A Report Card on […]
The Art of Yoga Project for Incarcerated Adolescent Girls
Because incarcerated teen girls warrant age-appropriate, gender-specific and culturally sensitive rehabilitative services, AYP has developed an innovative gender-responsive intervention that combines yoga and creative art. An overwhelming number of incarcerated teen girls are victims themselves, caught in cycles of violence and abuse. Nationally, 70 to 90 percent of girls in the juvenile justice system have […]
Implementing Curricular and Institutional Climate Changes to Improve Health Care for Individuals Who Are LGBT, Gender Nonconforming, or Born with DSD
Health care disparities continue to be experienced by people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT), gender nonconforming, and/or are born with differences in sex development (DSD). To reduce these disparities, all health care providers must learn to address the specific health care needs of these populations, and health care institutions must promote a climate […]
Suicidal Behavior and Acculturation among Hispanics in the United States
A recent study found that the lifetime risk of suicidal ideation and suicide attempts for Hispanics living in the United States increases along with their acceptance of and identification with U.S. culture (e.g. speaking English, having social networks with a greater proportion of people from non-Hispanic ethnic groups, and a lessening self-identification as Hispanic/Latino). A […]
Predicting Suicides After Psychiatric Hospitalization in US Army Soldiers: The Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers
U.S. soldiers who have undergone inpatient psychiatric treatment have a greatly increased risk of suicide in the year after they are discharged from the hospital, suggests a new study. The study included more than 40,000 active-duty soldiers who received inpatient psychiatric treatment between 2004 and 2009. Within a year of being discharged, 68 of the […]