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Governor Ivey Announces the Fourth Mental Health Crisis Center

mvaldes October 4, 2021 News Article, Press Release
Governor Ivey Announces the Fourth Mental Health Crisis Center

Governor Ivey Announces the Fourth Mental Health Crisis Center The Alabama Department of Mental Health Continues Expansion of Crisis Care MONTGOMERY – Governor Kay Ivey and Commissioner Kimberly Boswell of the Alabama Department of Mental Health are proud to announce

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ALABAMA MEDICAID AGENCY AWARDED MOBILE CRISIS INTERVENTION GRANT

mvaldes October 1, 2021 News Article, Press Release

ALABAMA MEDICAID AGENCY AWARDED MOBILE CRISIS INTERVENTION GRANT Expanding the Alabama Department of Mental Health’s Crisis System of Care   MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) awarded the Alabama Medicaid Agency, along with 19 other

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Call for Public Comment: HCBS State Plan Amendment

mvaldes October 1, 2021 News Article, Press Release, Uncategorized

STP Public Comment [September 30 2021]

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First master’s degree registered apprenticeship with an HBCU established in America

peggy September 10, 2021 News Article

Alabama Political Reporter – Social workers are critically important to the nagging social ills that undermine so many lives and communities. Alabama A&M University is taking education and training to a new level with the development of this apprenticeship program,

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Kids in the Middle: Alabama Apart Together Serves Families in a Time of COVID Confusion

peggy September 8, 2021 News Article

Yahoo.com September 8, 2021 With Alabama’s COVID -19 rate spiraling upward, Alabama students and teachers are back in class, and some schools have become a hotbed of controversy as parents and administrators disagree over whether children should be required to wear

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Addressing Alabama’s needs in the opioid crisis

peggy September 1, 2021 News Article

Sand Mountain Reporter September 1, 2021 Many Alabamians face structural barriers to treatment of opioid addiction, such as access and transportation to treatment facilities as well as hostile attitudes among the public and family members to addiction, according to research

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Judge: Mental health courts divert individuals from prison to treatment, improve public safety

peggy August 29, 2021 News Article

AL.com August 29, 2021 For many years, courts across the country and Alabama have expanded the use of therapeutic or treatment court programs. These innovative efforts seek to address issues involving underlying substance abuse, mental health, or other conditions which

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COVID-19: Living in a state of alert

mvaldes October 14, 2020 News Article
COVID-19: Living in a state of alert

AL.com – Borrowing a phrase from a recent communication by the National Council for Behavioral Health: as a result of COVID-19 everyone is living in a “state of alert”. The effect of that on human beings is that we will

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Walker County courts offer several options for people to get help with addiction

peggy September 30, 2020 News Article

Daily Mountain Eagle – Walker County District Attorney Bill Adair does not need statistics to tell him about how addiction has impacted local families. He has seen the faces of the loved ones who feel they have nowhere to turn.

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Mental Health Center seeking to prevent youth addiction

peggy September 30, 2020 News Article

Daily Mountain Eagle – America’s youth have not been spared from the ongoing opioid crisis. In 2017, about 1,300 young adults per day misused an opioid prescription for the first time, according to Truth Initiative, a public health organization focused

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