Tagged With "Health"

Re: Building a System of Trauma-Informed Care within the Community

The Power of Partnerships In the forward to the NJ ACES Statewide Action Plan , the Executive Director of NJ Office of Resilience, Dave Ellis, provides essential insight into New Jersey’s vision of collaboration and partnerships in building a trauma-informed and healing-centered state. Nowhere in the plan are identified silos of service. Families, schools, businesses, early care programs, community health care programs and more are now identified as the community where comprehensive services...

Thank you for bringing up this important topic @Danielle Schappert !

Mental health is an integral aspect of overall well-being, yet millions of children and adults face significant barriers in obtaining services while navigating a complex web of requirements. New Jersey is at the helm of progressive initiatives, with efforts being made to dismantle theses barriers to access mental health services and provide families with supportive networks necessary for well-being. Inequitable access to mental health care is shaped by numerous factors. Financial constraints...

From the Facebook event page: Looking to relax on a day to game during sweater weather? Join us to spend a day to hangout and game with friends. Throughout our event we'll have mental health professionals hold open discussions about the safety and benefits of the medium, artist vendors, food vendors and more. In collaboration with the National Alliance of Mental Illness (NAMI), EB Indie and NextGen Acting would like to break the stigma and offer a welcoming space to discuss the video game...

New data presented by the CDC on Adverse Childhood Experiences ( https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/aces/index.html ) as well as the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration (SAMHSA) ( https://www.samhsa.gov/child-trauma/understanding-child-trauma ) converge in acknowledgement of the urgency in developing a sustainable coordinated system care to support identified high-risk families with complex health and behavioral health care needs. Utilizing integrated data from multiple...