November is National Veterans and Military Families Month, a time to honor the service ...
Announcements
rssDr. Lisa Callahan Wins American Psychiatric Association’s Guttmacher Award
Dr. Lisa Callahan, co-awardee of the 2021 Manfred S. Guttmacher award PRA ...
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 York ...
SAMHSA’s GAINS Center Invites Communities to Apply for Sequential Intercept Mapping (SIM) Workshops
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 a local, cross-system, multidisciplinary group ...
SAMHSA’S GAINS Center Seeks Communities to Develop Trauma-Informed Training Capacity
SAMHSA’s GAINS Center for Behavioral Health and Justice Transformation, operated by Policy Research Associates, ...
PRA Announces 2020 Partnership with IPH in Regional Food Bank Adopt-A-Program
Policy Research Associates, Inc. (PRA) is committed to supporting local organizations that focus on ...
Utilizing Telehealth to Expand Access to Addiction Treatment
There is an ever-growing movement towards expanding telehealth resources to provide a variety of ...
Leveraging Hope and Evidence-Based Practices to Support Recovery among Justice-Involved Women in Northeast Tennessee
It takes “feet on the ground” and a lot of hard work to help ...
Certified Peer Specialists in the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections
By Lynn A. Patrone, MHE, Forensic Mental Health Advocate, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections The ...
Q&A with Judge Robert Russell
What prompted you to start the country’s first Veterans treatment court? Prior to starting ...