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UNIFORM APPLICATION FY 2016/2017 - STATE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH ASSESSMENT AND PLAN COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES BLOCK GRANT [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This document contains information required to obtain a community mental health services block ...
South Carolina Center for Mental Health Services, Division of State and Community Systems Development   +1 more
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Transition From Primary to Secondary School: Igniting Attendance and Engagement Among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Students Through National Policy Reform

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australia's Closing the Gap reform aims to address disparities experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. There are specific targets focussed on key educational transitions; yet, the transition to secondary education is not a targeted priority.
Azhar Hussain Potia   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Matching service development to mental health needs: a case study of a rural county

open access: yes, 1998
The development of Somerset's mental health services from 1991 to 1996 involved the closure of the county's last long-stay hospital, and its replacement by more local in-patient provision and an expansion of community services. The process and outcome of
Cambridge, P, Ring, C, Carpenter, J
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Measuring Child Disadvantage: Comparing Multidimensional and Socioeconomic Approaches for Predicting Developmental Outcomes

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Robust measurement of disadvantage is essential to identifying and addressing inequities in children's development. We tested how a multidimensional framework of child disadvantage performed relative to a traditional socioeconomic position (SEP) approach to predict developmental outcomes.
Wei Hong   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mental Health: Interventions to Reduce Depression Among Older Adults Community-Based Exercise Interventions

open access: yes
The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) findings and recommendations for "Improving Mental Health and Addressing Mental Illness: Interventions to Reduce Depression among Older Adults, Community-Based Exercise Interventions " are based on ...

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The Legislation for Providing Animal Access in Australian Residential Aged Care: It's Not a Zoo

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Providing meaningful animal contact to residential aged care facility (RACF) residents is problematic due to a lack of animal policies and National Guidelines. This paper examines how Australian Legislation could influence access to animal contact in RACFs and aims to answer the question, ‘Could current Legislation facilitate the development ...
Wendy Newton   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

China's service system for community residents with severe mental disorders: achievements, challenges and prospects

open access: yesSichuan jingshen weisheng
With the implementation of the 'Mental Health Law of the People's Republic of China' and relevant policies, governments at all levels have devoted more resources to community-based rehabilitation services for patients with mental disorders, making the ...
Zhou Liang
doaj   +1 more source

Mental Health: Multi-Tiered Trauma-Informed School Programs to Improve Mental Health Among Youth

open access: yes
The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) findings and recommendations for "Mental Health: Multi-Tiered Trauma-Informed School Programs to Improve Mental Health Among Youth" are based on systematic reviews of evidence of effectiveness and ...

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Understanding and addressing the stigma of mental illness with ethnic minority communities

open access: yes, 2012
Higher income societies have moved from institutional to community-based care for people experiencing mental illness. However, stigma and discrimination persists and undermines help-seeking, recovery and life chances.
Knifton, Lee, Lee Knifton
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Navigating Whiteness in Australia's Anti‐Racism Movement: A Duoethnographic Inquiry by Women of Colour Scholars

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper applies Critical Race Theory (CRT) to explore how whiteness operates within Australia's anti‐racism movement as a structuring force that shapes discourse, practice and policy. Despite the anti‐racism movement offering crucial spaces for resistance and reform, it remains entangled in Australia's settler‐colonial present and systemic ...
Franka Vaughan, Aish Ravi
wiley   +1 more source

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