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Equitable Access for Mental Health Care The Path Forward Coalition believes that everyone deserves access to quality mental health care, regardless of their income, race, ethnicity, or zip code. The coalition's plan includes a number of initiatives to increase equitable access to mental health care, such as: ✅ Expanding access to mental health care services in schools and communities ✅ Increasing the number of mental health professionals trained in evidence-based practices ✅ Developing and implementing data-driven systems to track and improve the quality of mental health care The coalition believes that these initiatives will help to ensure that everyone has access to the mental health care they need. #mentalhealth #equitablehealthcare #equitableaccess #healthcare #pathforward

Children’s mental health is an essential component of their overall health and well-being. However, many families are unable to access timely, effective, and culturally responsive mental health care. The good news is that agencies and organizations have many evidence-based policy options to equitably promote children’s mental health — and we’re launching a new webinar series to discuss them. With support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, our new series Meeting the Challenge: Evidence-Based Policies to Support Children’s Mental Health & Well-Being brings together researchers, federal partners, national leaders, and ChangeLab Solutions staff to consider policy options that promote children’s mental health. Join our first episode, Income & Housing Policies to Support Children’s Mental Health, on Wednesday, February 14, at 10am Pacific / 1pm Eastern. Our expert panel will discuss evidence-based policies that can strengthen families’ overall economic security, thereby supporting children’s well-being. Register today: https://lnkd.in/g4yCpc-H #ChildrensMentalHealth #YouthMentalHealth #MentalHealthAwareness #HealthyHousing

Ontario’s kids need timely, high-quality mental health care more than ever, but funding gaps have led to long waitlists and a staffing crisis. The child & youth mental health sector is asking for a $140 million funding commitment in Ontario’s 2024 budget. bit.ly/ONBudget2024

The Helping Kids Cope Act would invest in critical areas of youth mental health infrastructure. A key aim of this legislations is to strengthen community-based pediatric mental health services by enabling communities to implement or develop new programs and policies tailored to meet the mental and behavioral health needs of children. Here's hoping these new programs also include digital mental health solutions to address the shortage of clinicians. #behavioralhealth #mentalhealth #youthmentalhealth

Advancing Health Equity - Lifting up Youth Voice Calling all youth in 6th to 12th grade! Your voice matters in shaping mental health support. The Shelby County Youth & Family Resource Center wants YOUR input on mental health counseling to enhance the support they offer. Your participation can make a real difference in how they help young people. Let's make an impact together! Person-centered care practices such as engaging and listening to the people you serve and inviting them to be partners in their own care reduce health disparities and drive better health outcomes overall. Share this survey with the young minds you know. The more voices heard, the better we can tailor our support and create a brighter, healthier future for our youth. Survey link: https://lnkd.in/eHJZExj3

@SameiHuda A lot of 'ink' has been spilled on Adversity and its narrowing impact on executive control function and its true to say the affordance/pie ratios of same, veers very much toward biophysics/psychological self, often a de-socialised picture. Bessel Van der Kolk's early work on trauma did not suffer from the social deficit. Since the period of the Decade in the Brain, a move away from 'the fragmenting world of social' becomes really pronounced/exacerbated; a type of knowledge that is too reductive; partial/high altitude, and not as open as it ought to be. A social amnesia in knowledge. The 'faith' precursors of Decade of the Brain stem from the beginning of the Cognitive Revolution in the 1950s, where singular style autonomy, makes its presence felt, a picture dominant in varying social spheres, eg. early educative ideas; business theories; media/wider culture interfaces, marking out the terrain for how individual self/selves and domestic nuclei of family. Countries like Ireland&USA privilege Idealism were/are the outsized tales of One Size fits all. In other words, our broad brush stroke knowledge views social mobility/success in key signs of individualism' as emancipatory reward and forms of collectivism/solidarity as the Just Society. Adversity/suffering presents a significant counter punch to rose tinted view of cosy homesteads. For example, when we hear figures that 1,300 attacks on health workers were recorded in the first three months of this year, figures seen by RTE's This Week. (Cian McCormack RTE Sunday 28th May 2023). One might ask how have citizens become so dysregulated-unable to control their reactions and even impose torrential levels of abuse and anti-social behaviours on others. How have we arrived in this shameless space, where a moral/ethical sense of self-determination naturalises lashing out on others as freedom's right? One too many have traded in seductive ideas that shame and guilt as felt feelings are bad infinity; unwittingly, and perhaps wittingly responsible for de-sensitivity; what it means to be social, usurping underlying intuitions4 what makes us social, including our dark side; what takes possession of human processes. In my view, if we advocate for no shame/guilt, it seems to me, we can enable anything goes as automatic behaviours and reducing our appraisal competency for reflecting on our behaviours toward others. To conclude, 'Judgement-the ability to combine personal qualities with relevant knowledge/experience to form opinions and make decisions is the core of exemplary leadership' according to Noel Tichy and Warren Bennis Judgement is a uniquely worldly ability, 'allow us to reflect on our behavior and share these reflections with other people, which in turn enables us to reason why we do things&2exert some control over our automatic behaviors. As a result, we can learn cooperatively with others&create and value cultural artifacts, that survive the generations' Chris&Uta Frith

Philadelphia ACE Survey What are Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) ? Sometimes called "the most significant public health survey that no one has ever heard of," due to the time it took to reach public awareness, a 1998 study done by Co-Principal Investigators Robert Anda, MD and Vince Felitti, MD for the CDC and Kaiser Premante, brought together 10 questions about childhood houshold experiences that they were finding indications that these experiences in childhood be linked with adult health and wellbeing. These 10 questions, called "ACEs" range from having a parent with mental illness, to witnessing domestic violence. The study's results were shocking and groundbreaking, as they identified a link between the frequency of these 10 ACEs and outcomes for adult health and mental well-being. Read more about the background on ACEs here. https://lnkd.in/gfXcvT2p

Wow! What generosity! But here’s a thought: We shouldn’t have to rely on big stars’ generosity to receive evidenced based treatment for mental health. In Canada, evidence-based treatment is (often) not covered, nor available, within our public health systems. Examples of mental health treatments that are available and paid for within Canada’s healthcare systems: - emergency involuntary detainment of somebody experiencing alcohol withdrawal - emergency and involuntary detainment of somebody who has committed a crime who is also experiencing psychosis. - medication management got severe and persistent mental illness Mental health treatments that are not available/covered by provincial publically funded healthcare: - evidence based treatment for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) - evidence based treatment for Obsessive Compulssive Disorder (OCD) - evidence based psychotherapy for the prevention of Major Depression How do we change this? 1. Email your MLA (healthcare is currently provincially funded) over and over again. 2. Vote for people who will change this. 3. Talk about it. For bandaid solutions (that are very necessary in today’s system): Donate to (time or money) your local Canadian Mental Health Association #mentalhealth #mentalhealthawarenessmonth

Philadelphia ACE Survey What are Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) ? Sometimes called "the most significant public health survey that no one has ever heard of," due to the time it took to reach public awareness, a 1998 study done by Co-Principal Investigators Robert Anda, MD and Vince Felitti, MD for the CDC and Kaiser Premante, brought together 10 questions about childhood houshold experiences that they were finding indications that these experiences in childhood be linked with adult health and wellbeing. These 10 questions, called "ACEs" range from having a parent with mental illness, to witnessing domestic violence. The study's results were shocking and groundbreaking, as they identified a link between the frequency of these 10 ACEs and outcomes for adult health and mental well-being. Read more about the background on ACEs here. https://lnkd.in/gfXcvT2p

ACE’s and Social Determinants of Health are important to talk about for mental health and wellness