New Jersey Legislature Approves $56.6 Billion FY2025 Budget Bill
June 28, 2024
New Jersey Legislature Approves $56.6 Billion
FY2025 Budget Bill
On Wednesday, June 26, 2024 the New Jersey Legislature
released its
$56.6 billion Fi...
NJAMHAA Celebrates Advocacy Successes, Announces New Board Leaders, Honors Several Individuals
On June 12, 2024, NJAMHAA highlighted advocacy achievements and
recognized several individuals whose significant contributions
helped make NJAMHAA's impact possible during the Annual
Membership Meeting, Transformational Leadership…with Powerful
Results.
"I am proud to work with so m...
Mental Health: Need to Eliminate Stigma and Ensure Access to Services
May 30, 2024
Mental Health Month Underscores the Need
to Eliminate Stigma and Ensure Access to
Services
Statement from Debra L. Wentz, PhD, President and
CEO, NJAMHAA; Executive Director, New
Jersey Mental Health Institute; and
Chair, New Jersey Governor's Council on Mental Heal...
Inspiring Successes, Rising Demand Underscore the Need for Greater Behavioral Healthcare Funding
May 28, 2024
"To help someone get stable and to empower someone to regain
control of their lives, it's very, very rewarding. If we didn't
do it, who would? Everyone can experience mental illness and
people need help now more than ever. I am proud of the work we
do." - Adiba Saleem, LS...
Much More Investment for Behavioral Health Care Is Needed to Enable Many More Individuals to Thrive
May 2, 2024
Reinforce the Fact that New Jerseyans Cannot Wait any
Longer for Life Saving Care!
Share the Inspiring Success Stories Below and other
Examples in your Advocacy
for Significantly More Funding in the FY2025 State
Budget!
"I just wanted to stop using drugs and alco...
IT Conference Features Experts with Critical Advice and Resources for All Healthcare Staff
April 26, 2024
All Healthcare Staff Need Information Technology
Knowledge, Skills and Tools to Ensure Safety and
Quality of Care
May 1, 2024 Conference
Features Experts with Critical Advice and Resources
As information technology (IT) continues to evolve and risks to
data secu...
Advocates Illustrate Why New Jerseyans Cannot Wait any Longer for Life Saving Care
April 19, 2024
On April 18, 2024, leaders from several statewide advocacy
organizations held a press conference, New Jerseyans Cannot
Wait Any Longer for Life Saving Care, and highlighted
compelling examples of the negative impact of long waits for
services - many of which are due to ...
NJAMHAA Urges Everyone to Advocate for More Funding to Strengthen the Behavioral Health Workforce
April 11, 2024
"We are so fortunate here in New Jersey to have a behavioral
health workforce of amazing heroes, a statewide heroic staff
whose personal mission is to give so strongly to others …. to
ensure that all our Diverse Faces have access to the behavioral
health services we d...
Behavioral Health Care Enables Individuals to Achieve Good Health and Success in School and Careers
March 26, 2024
"My life has truly been shaped, and continues to be by Preferred
Behavioral Health Group's School Based Youth Services Program
(SBYSP) in Brick Schools and I am so grateful to be a part of
it," said Nick Spanola, MS, LPC, Program Director and Former
Program Participant,...
Adult Behavioral Health Services Need More Funding to Achieve Many More Inspiring Successes
March 14, 2024
Alice's metamorphosis happened with the help of NewBridge
Services. After a three-month hospitalization in 2019, Alice
began attending NewBridge Services' day treatment program. In
addition to recovering from depression, which she has experienced
since childhood, Alice ...
Join NJAMHAA in Honoring Impactful Providers and Leaders April 9, 2024
March 14, 2024
NJAMHAA Is excited to present the following awards during the
Annual Champions of Courage and Compassion Awards
Reception. The ceremony will be held at the end of the first
day of the Spring Conference, Advancing Opportunities,
Improving Lives, from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p....
Evidence Abounds on the Effectiveness of Children and Youths' Behavioral Healthcare Services
At 10 years old, Zhan was referred by an inpatient child
psychiatric unit to CFG Health Network's A Step Ahead Elmer
program.
Although the treatment team was told that Zhan would most likely
be residential bound when she finished the program, Zhan achieved
a complete turnaround.
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