NYSBHA News

A bipartisan group of senators has introduced a slew of new bills that seek to increase access to telemedicine treatment for patients with substance abuse disorders. The five proposed bills, three of which are telehealth-focused, are expected to be wrapped into a...

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: May 22, 2018 Joe.Gierut@Mail.House.Gov 202-225-5614   Washington D.C. – Representatives John Faso (R-NY), Paul Tonko (D-NY), Fred Upton (R-MI) and John Sarbanes (D-MD) today introduced bipartisan legislation to reauthorize the...

NYT: Kids’ Suicide-Related Hospital Visits Rise Sharply From 2008 to 2015, the proportion of emergency room and hospital encounters for suicide-related diagnoses almost tripled. "...more and more of their inpatient beds at the children’s hospital were occupied by...

NEW YORK, May 15, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- The William F. Ryan Community Health Network announced today that it is rebranding as Ryan Health, more closely uniting its six Manhattan community health centers with the new tagline: "Caring for New York. Here for you." The new...

Brandiss Pearson-McIntyre, a nurse practitioner for the Syracuse Community Health Center’s school based clinic at the Delaware Primary School in Syracuse, speaks on remaining steadfast and immovable at the Freedom Fund Banquet of the Auburn-Cayuga Branch of the NAACP....

Cory Johnson is a fourth-year student from Florida at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. He will be completing his residency in family medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. After his postgraduate fellowship serving as a case manager at Montefiore...

Resilience may be the answer to recovering from youth stresses “There was always something on fire,” she recalled. With four decades of time and nearly an entire continent between her and the projects, Elizabeth Fitzgerald still carries the traces of her traumatic...

National Alliance on Mental Illness says 50 percent of all chronic illness begins before age 14 Georgia (Albany) — Anxiety, conduct disorder, ADHD, depression, substance abuse, trauma, physical and sexual abuse, and cyberbullying are among the issues young people face...

Among its proposed 2018-19 school year budget, the Guilderland Central School District Board of Education included the creation of a school-based mental health clinic, in partnership with Capital Region BOCES and Parsons Child and Family Center/Northern Rivers, to...

Hadley-Luzerne is one of the latest school districts planning to bring in an outside health provider to provide school-based counseling services. School officials are working to establish an office for a representative from the Albany-based Parsons Child and Family...

Crains Health Pulse 4.3.18 April 03, 2018 @crainshealth  School-based health centers recoup most budget cuts The state budget for fiscal 2019 allocated $3.8 million to school-based health centers. The funding restored nearly all of the $4 million in cuts last year...

Montefiore's Dr. David Appel provides commentary to Pediatric News on Florida's recently passed gun control bill, namely, its inclusion of funding to expand mental health services for students through a simple, sustainable, and nonpolitical solution: the provision of...

Funds needed as schools roll out mental health curriculum this fall, advocates say In a few months, New York will become the first state to require mental health education as part of its statewide school curriculum, and mental health advocates are urging the governor...

Senator Terrence Murphy (R-40) was a sponsor of a comprehensive safety plan to improve security and keep children safe at schools and other venues that recently passed the New York State Senate. The bill defines school shootings as terrorism and enables individuals to...

School Based Health Center and School Based Health Center-Dental Regional Training Scheduled in 2018 The New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH), Bureau of Child Health, is inviting all current Article 28 sponsors to the 2018 School Based Health Center/School...

The North Country Family Health Center has been awarded a $133,500 grant by Excellus BlueCross BlueShield to support its local School-Based Dental Program. NCFHC provides school dental services at 12 school locations within five districts throughout Jefferson and...

School-based health centers struggle Dr. Chris Kjolhede of  Bassett Healthcare wants more money to help children get access to primary, dental and mental health care. So he went to Washington, D.C., in late February to talk about helping children who have been hurt by...

American Indian Community House, working out of lower Manhattan, kicks off New York City’s first Lakota Language Weekend. A 2016 study suggests that efforts to keep a language alive translate into health-related benefits for Native Americans. Language use generates a...

Congressman John Faso announced co-sponsorship for a bill to reauthorize and make improvements to the School-Based Health Centers. The legislation, H.R. 1027 the Hallways to Health Act, creates a grant program to support school-based health centers in order to...

Broad evidence now supports the potential of school-based services for the treatment of a wide range of child mental health problems School-based services delivered by teachers and other school-based professionals can help reduce mental health problems in...