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[ 4 Dec 2010 | 4 Comments ]
What is a Health Home?

In talking with lots of folks—they are confused about the term “health homes”. For some, when the term “health home” is used, they think it’s a residential facility (like a nursing home).  Others think it’s a physical location where a person can go for health care needs, but really a health home is an approach to how health care is delivered.
A health home is a provider or a team of health care professionals that provide integrated health care. This means that if a person is participating in a health home, …

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[ 8 Oct 2010 | 3 Comments ]
Recognize Mental Illness Awareness Week and Participate in World Mental Health Day

In case you haven’t heard, Sunday, October 10th is World Mental Health Day! World Mental Health Day receives organizational support by the World Federation for Mental Health, and occurs on the last day of Mental Illness Awareness Week. To cap off the week and celebrate World Mental Health Day, we wanted to highlight some things SAMHSA is doing and some great activities others in the field have done to show how important it is to discuss mental health problems and break down the misconceptions and barriers to recovery.
SAMHSA has developed …