November is National Veterans and Military Families Month, a time to honor the service ...
Dr. Lisa Callahan Wins American Psychiatric Association’s Guttmacher Award
Dr. Lisa Callahan, co-awardee of the 2021 Manfred S. Guttmacher award PRA ...
My Teammates Are Peers
I have been working at the intersection of behavioral health and the justice system ...
Veterans Day 2020—Spotlight on Our Service Members, Veterans, and their Families Technical Assistance Center Team
In recognition of Veterans Day 2020, we would like to take the opportunity ...
Financial Equity: Intersections of Mental Health and Race
As noted by Dr. Peggy Swarbrick and her colleagues, “Financial Wellness involves having financial ...
Day of Reflection in Twin Peaks
As I’ve done in most other years at PRA, I used my Day of ...
Realizing the Cost Savings and Public-Health Benefits of Medication-Assisted Treatment in Jails and Prisons
Marc Stern, M.D., M.P.H., understands why there might be resistance to treating people for ...
Oklahoma Treatment Courts Leverage Peers in Wraparound Support
Oklahoma has a robust treatment court system that integrates people with lived experience of ...
Q&A with Jonathan M. Giftos, M.D., Medical Director, Addiction Medicine and Drug User Health, Project Renewal
As former clinical director of substance use treatment at Rikers Island for New ...
Netflix Nailed It! at Home Challenge
The past few months have been strange, to say the least. I am an ...
SAMHSA’s GAINS Center Invites Communities to Apply for Sequential Intercept Mapping (SIM) Workshops FY21
SAMHSA’s GAINS Center is currently soliciting applications from jurisdictions interested in Sequential Intercept Model Mapping Workshops (SIM Workshops). SIM Workshops are designed to bring together ...
SOAR and Employment Comes Full Circle at the 11th Judicial Circuit Criminal Mental Health Project in Miami, Florida
Justin Volpe has been employed as a peer specialist with the 11th Judicial Circuit ...