{"title":"Innovation awards aims to advance MH solutions for youth","authors":"Valerie A. Canady","doi":"10.1002/mhw.34226","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/mhw.34226","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Observing a need to fund and advance transformative mental health care solutions for children and young adults across the country, Morgan Stanley announced earlier this year the third cohort of winners of its Alliance for Children's Mental Health Innovation Awards.</p>","PeriodicalId":100916,"journal":{"name":"Mental Health Weekly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142541045","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Coming Up…","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/mhw.34229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/mhw.34229","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The <b>National Association for Children's Behavioral Health</b> is holding its NACBH 2024 Emerging Best Practices Conference: Cultivating Tomorrow's Excellence <b>Dec. 4–6</b> in <b>St. Pete Beach, Florida</b>. For more information, visit https://nacbh.memberclicks.net/emerging-best-practices-conference.</p>","PeriodicalId":100916,"journal":{"name":"Mental Health Weekly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142541053","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"BH, tech collaboration aims to transform telehealth, online group therapy","authors":"Valerie A. Canady","doi":"10.1002/mhw.34222","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/mhw.34222","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A behavioral health organization and a provider of virtual classrooms and online solutions have collaborated to offer patients evidence-based mental health and addiction treatment through an interactive and online option. Officials, who announced the partnership in September, said the effort delivers personalized individual and group treatment plans in a secure, compliant and engaging online space.</p>","PeriodicalId":100916,"journal":{"name":"Mental Health Weekly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142541049","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Colorado providers call an array of funding woes a ‘perfect storm’","authors":"Gary Enos","doi":"10.1002/mhw.34213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/mhw.34213","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Colorado's community mental health providers say they are experiencing many of the downsides that can come with a period of dizzying change. Facing declining Medicaid rolls, a shifting payment model and no prospects for new state funding to support restructuring, the state's provider community is calling the current environment a “perfect storm” of crisis that could engulf patient care.</p>","PeriodicalId":100916,"journal":{"name":"Mental Health Weekly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142451296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Advocates urge FDA to end REMS requirements for clozapine","authors":"Valerie A. Canady","doi":"10.1002/mhw.34216","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/mhw.34216","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The Treatment Advocacy Center (TAC) and other advocates are trying to convince the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to end the Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) requirements for clozapine. The requirements, they said, reduce the number of providers who will prescribe this “gold standard medication” that works for many people with serious mental illness.</p>","PeriodicalId":100916,"journal":{"name":"Mental Health Weekly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142449125","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"States' AGs take TikTok to court for causing harm to children's mental health","authors":"Valerie A. Canady","doi":"10.1002/mhw.34214","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/mhw.34214","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The attorneys general of 13 states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit against TikTok Oct. 8, stating that the app's addictive design features are doing damage to the mental health of children and teens. The goal of the suits, the attorneys general said, is to stop TikTok from using addictive features, impose financial penalties, and collect damages for users who say the app has harmed them.</p>","PeriodicalId":100916,"journal":{"name":"Mental Health Weekly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142449123","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Coming Up…","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/mhw.34220","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/mhw.34220","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The <b>National Association for Children's Behavioral Health</b> is holding its NACBH 2024 Emerging Best Practices Conference: Cultivating Tomorrow's Excellence <b>Dec. 4–6</b> in <b>St. Pete Beach, Florida</b>. For more information, visit https://nacbh.memberclicks.net/emerging-best-practices-conference.</p>","PeriodicalId":100916,"journal":{"name":"Mental Health Weekly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142449127","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Oklahoma leaders reject settlement on jail MH services","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/mhw.34218","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/mhw.34218","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt and other state leaders have rejected a legal settlement of a federal lawsuit over long delays in providing mental health treatment to jail detainees found not competent to stand trial, the <i>Oklahoma Voice</i> policy news service reported Oct. 8. State Attorney General Gentner Drummond had pushed for the negotiated settlement, which included a remediation plan that would revamp the state's current system for restoring offender competency and increase the state's number of forensic beds devoted to competency restoration (see “Legal settlement would expedite MH treatment for Oklahoma detainees,” <i>MHW</i>, July 1, 2024; https://doi.org/10.1002/mhw.34099). But Stitt and the commissioner of the state Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, Allie Friesen, have characterized the settlement as overly costly and burdensome. Shortly before an Oct. 8 meeting of a review board chaired by Stitt, Friesen announced that she was terminating Drummond as the state's counsel in the case. Friesen indicated with regard to the proposed settlement that she would “resign before signing an agreement like this,” <i>Oklahoma Voice</i> reported. The lawsuit was originally filed in March 2023 in U.S. District Court on behalf of three incarcerated inmates. It alleges that detainees' long waits for needed mental health treatment have caused their conditions to deteriorate, and this violates the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution and the Americans with Disabilities Act.</p>","PeriodicalId":100916,"journal":{"name":"Mental Health Weekly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142451290","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Research and program grants will support health equity","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/mhw.34219","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/mhw.34219","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The philanthropic arm of health insurance company Humana Inc. has announced a series of grants devoted to advancing health equity, with several of the funded initiatives focused on mental health. The Humana Foundation on Oct. 16 announced investments totaling $15.2 million for research and programmatic initiatives emphasizing emotional health and community connection. Among the funded research projects, investigators at Indiana University's Bloomington campus will use grant support to examine connection between school staff and marginalized students for suicide prevention, while researchers at the University of South Florida will test a nutrition education intervention for low-income older adults with behavioral health conditions. Program grantees include Junior Achievement of Kentuckiana, which plans to establish a youth mental health center in Kentucky, and Spring Branch Community Health Center in Texas, which intends to open a mental health center at a high school with a large proportion of students struggling with mental health issues. Older adults and school-age children have been priority populations in the foundation's overall giving mission. “This commitment from the Humana Foundation offers a major investment in creating practical tools that will have wide application in reconnecting older adults to social and community networks,” said Tom Kamber, executive director of grant recipient agency Older Adults Technology Services, which will use its grant to educate communities on the difficulties many seniors have in combating social isolation.</p>","PeriodicalId":100916,"journal":{"name":"Mental Health Weekly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142449126","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CDC finds link between frequent social media use and bullying","authors":"Valerie A. Canady","doi":"10.1002/mhw.34215","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/mhw.34215","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Observing that social media has become a pervasive presence in everyday life, including among youths, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) nationally representative Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) in 2023 included for the first time an item assessing U.S. high school students' frequency of social media use.</p>","PeriodicalId":100916,"journal":{"name":"Mental Health Weekly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142449124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}