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Writing Letters for Gender-Affirming Healthcare

University of Connecticut

Clients seeking access to gender-affirming healthcare (including cross-hormone treatment and various surgical procedures) are typically required to get referral letters from mental health professionals. learn tips for advocacy with insurance companies in navigating denials for gender-affirming surgeries.

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Best Practices for Promoting Self-Advocacy Among Your IDD Clients

Relias

For direct support professionals (DSPs) and others working in the intellectual and development disabilities field (IDD), acting as an ally for client self-advocacy is a huge part of the job. What is self-advocacy? What is self-advocacy? Self-advocacy is deeply personal. But knowing where to start can be tricky.

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Why We Oppose Gender-affirming Healthcare Bans

Stop Abuse Campaign

The Stop Abuse Campaign strongly opposes legislation defining gender-affirming healthcare for transgender and non-binary youth as child abuse. Why we should not ban gender-affirming healthcare. There are many reasons we oppose these bans; among them are: Gender-affirming healthcare is the standard of care.

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Behavioral Healthcare in Life After the COVID-19 Pandemic

Relias

When COVID-19 entered the picture, “this really very quickly and profoundly altered the way that behavioral health care services are provided,” Frankie Berger, Director of State Policy and Advocacy for the National Council for Behavioral Health, said. Preparing to adapt to changes in the healthcare market.

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Closing Thoughts During Suicide Prevention Month 2022

My Brains Not Broken

Affordable healthcare is suicide prevention. Whether your approach to advocacy is specific or broad, there are many ways to get involved. I really appreciate the work the AFSP does for suicide prevention, and the organization is worth checking out in you’re interested in advocacy. Stable housing is suicide prevention.

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The draft Mental Health Bill: parliamentary proposals for change

Community Care

The government and NHS England should produce an implementation plan for the NHS’s non-legislative programmes to address inequalities in mental healthcare. Rights to advocacy The draft bill would extend the statutory right to an independent mental health advocate (IMHA) to all mental health inpatients, including voluntary patients.

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NASW Combats Troubling Business Practice Harming Social Workers and their Clients

Social Work Blog

In July, many NASW members alerted their state chapters to a disturbing and potentially deceptive marketing practice impacting social workers nationwide — involving CareDash, a healthcare review and referral website for a wide variety of healthcare providers, including clinical social workers.