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Safety Planning Checklist for You and Your Clients

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Safety planning has proven an effective means of supporting those struggling with mental health crises, abusive relationships, or other forms of trauma. Psychiatric Advance Directives. Provide mental health exercises. Psychiatric advance directives. But no two safety plans are, or should be, the same.

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Safety Planning Checklist for You and Your Clients

Relias

Safety planning has proven an effective means of supporting those struggling with mental health crises, abusive relationships, or other forms of trauma. Psychiatric Advance Directives. Provide mental health exercises. Psychiatric advance directives. But no two safety plans are, or should be, the same.

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How to Create a Disaster Behavioral Health Plan

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Whether they are natural or man-made disasters, human services professionals must prepare accordingly. To help your organization provide the best response possible, we’ve put together this resource on disaster behavioral health. How disasters can affect behavioral and mental health. Disasters happen.

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Why Successful Integrated Care Management Matters

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According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), integrated care is defined as “the systematic coordination of general and behavioral healthcare.” Integrated care is a best practice model that combines evidence-based medical and behavioral healthcare services at one point of entry.

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Strategies for Effective Suicide Loss Postvention

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Establish effective communication strategies. In this article, we’ll explore how your organization can use this approach to postvention in order to provide timely and effective care to your clients and community. Were already experiencing psychiatric issues, such as depression, or had suicidal thoughts and behaviors prior to the death.

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News Items – August 5, 2021

Social Workers Speak

Lena Richardson is a member: GA Dept of Human Services Appoints Lena Richardson to Georgia Council on Aging. Department of Human Services Commissioner Gerlda B. Monteiro has been involved with many community initiatives and was awarded one of Boston’s most impactful Black women in philanthropy last year by Get Konnected!

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A Helpful Guide to KVC’s Mental Health and Child Welfare Services in Kansas and Missouri

KVC

For more than 50 years, KVC Health Systems has provided heart-centered service to children and families. These services strengthen families, prevent child abuse and neglect, and help both children and adults achieve mental health wellness. KVC Hospitals – Children’s Psychiatric Treatment.