Massachusetts United for Connection and Healing (M.U.C.H.) is a network for the Peer Support workforce and community which has been developed with the following goals…
Resources: Crisis Intervention
Community-Academic Partnership to Improve the Psychiatric Care of Justice-Involved Individuals with Serious Mental Illness
Community perspective by Donna Winant. Academic perspective by Carol Lim, MD, MPH…
Community Organization: Massachusetts United for Connection and Healing (M.U.C.H.)
Massachusetts United for Connection and Healing (M.U.C.H.) is a network for the Peer Support workforce and community which has been developed with the following goals…
Leaving the Therapist’s Office Behind: Getting Evidence-Based Emotion Regulation Skills to Youth with Criminal Justice System Involvement
Youth involved in the criminal justice system have unaddressed mental health needs, which have been shown to significantly increase their risk of re-offending and re-incarceration (1). Thus, it is a top priority to equip these youth with emotional health strategies to boost their mental health…
The Crime Is Not The Person: Assessment and Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress in Correctional Settings
As a psychiatrist, my calling is to deeply listen to the people who come to me for help, and to help them understand who they are and how they’ve come to be in their present circumstances. Indeed, a central task of a mental health provider is to help people learn…
How Racism Affects Mental Health, Policing, and Incarceration
In October 2016, a resident in New York City (NYC) called 911 stating that their neighbor, Ms. Deborah Danner, was acting “erratic”, by yelling and screaming. The NY Police Department sent over an officer…
Primary Prevention for Criminal Justice System Involvement
Desiderius Erasmus, a Dutch philosopher, describes the principle which is at the core of modern medicine: preventing an illness, called primary prevention, is better than curing an illness once it has begun, called secondary prevention…