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Your Healthy Outlook Can Promote Resilience and Recovery in Older Adults

Relias

The ways in which you engage older adults throughout the process to build resilience should include a focus on recovery, hope, and well-being. Supporting, not directing resilience in older adults Strive to involve older adults in their own behavioral health services. However, this approach is not most helpful in the end.

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NASW Observes Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Month

Social Work Blog

Department of Health and Human Services. Members of ISTSS include psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, nurses, counselors, researchers, administrators, advocates, journalists, clergy, and others with an interest in the study and treatment of traumatic stress. Mighty Oaks Foundation . Prepared by. Denise Johnson, LCSW-C.

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SUPRs — Illinois’s State-Funded Program for First-Time Rehab Patients

Gateway Foundation

The Substance Use Prevention and Recovery (SUPR) division of the Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS) provides funds for qualified treatment and recovery support centers. An SUPR grant is a federal monetary award that helps substance use disorder treatment centers expand and enhance their services.

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SUPRs — Illinois’s State-Funded Program for First-Time Rehab Clients

Gateway Foundation

The Substance Use Prevention and Recovery (SUPR) division of the Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS) provides funds for qualified treatment and recovery support centers. An SUPR grant is a federal monetary award that helps substance use disorder treatment centers expand and enhance their services.

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How to Create a Disaster Behavioral Health Plan

Relias

Whether they are natural or man-made disasters, human services professionals must prepare accordingly. Disaster behavioral health and recovery. But, for human services organizations it is also key to consider larger, community-level responses to disaster. Disasters happen. Engage in partnerships.

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World Mental Health Day 2021: Addressing Inequities in Care

Relias

WFMH’s mission is to promote the advancement of mental health awareness, prevention of mental disorders, advocacy and best practices, and recovery-focused interventions worldwide. A program of the World Federation for Mental Health (WFMH), World Mental Health Day has been observed since 1992.

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How to Get an Illinois DUI Evaluation

Gateway Foundation

Outside DuPage or Cook: If your case is in a county outside of DuPage or Cook, including Kane, Kendall, DeKalb, Will, and McHenry, you can obtain a DUI evaluation wherever you’d like as long as the location has received licensure from the Illinois Department of Human Services and part of their approved provider list.