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August 29, 2023 The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's (SAMHSA's) Homeless & Housing Resource Center (HHRC) has shared a fact sheet on Xylazine basics, providing information on overdose prevention, harm reduction, wound care, and more Xylazine, also know...

August 24, 2023 The New Jersey Department of Children and Families (DCF) has shared a notice of the CVS Health Foundation issuing a call for applications for its 2023 Centering Youth Mental Health grant program. The Centering Youth Mental Health grant program is a multi-year phila...

NJCounts is the annual Point-in-Time (PIT) Count of individuals and families experiencing homelessness in New Jersey, required by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), directed by the New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency (NJHMFA), and managed by Monarch Hou...

August 10, 2023 On Wednesday, August 7, 2023, New Jersey Department of Human Services (DHS) Commissioner Sarah Adelman announced the launch of StopOverdoses.nj.gov, a resource for New Jersey residents to locate pharmacies providing naloxone, the opioid overdose reversal agent, free...

August 3, 2023 On Monday, July 31, 2023, the United States Department of Labor (DOL) initiated a lawsuit against UnitedHealth Group, alleging that the healthcare provider improperly denied thousands of patients' payments for emergency room services and urinary drug screenings. The...

July 27, 2023 On July 25, 2023, Governor Phil Murphy announced his intention to nominate Kaitlan Baston, MD, MSc, DFASAM, as the Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Health (DOH). Dr. Baston will assume the role in August of this year, following the recently announced upcomin...

July 25, 2023 On July 24th, the Department of Human Services (DHS), Division of Medical Assistance and Health Services (DMAHS) and Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS) hosted a kick-off of the behavioral health carve-in implementation, which will take place over th...

July 24, 2023 Judith Persichilli, who has served as the New Jersey State Health Commissioner since August 5, 2019, will retire next month, as reported by NJ Advance Media, published in the July 21st edition of The Star Ledger. Her tenure included supervising New Jersey's response to...

Yesterday, NJAMHAA staff and several partners testified before the Opioid Recovery and Remediation Fund Advisory Council, reinforcing the need for education and increased access to the full continuum of prevention, harm reduction and treatment services, as well as a statewide health infor...

Nationwide, there is an estimated shortage of nearly 4.5 million behavioral health providers to meet the level of need, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's (SAMHSA's) Behavioral Health Workforce Report, 2020. This dearth in the behavioral health wo...

Judith Persichilli, who has served as the New Jersey State Health Commissioner since August 5, 2019, will retire next month, as reported by NJ Advance Media, published in today's edition of The Star Ledger. Her tenure included supervising New Jersey's response to the COVID-19 pandemic...

July 20, 2023 On Monday, July 17, 2023, Governor Phil Murphy signed S3864 into law, establishing the New Jersey Maternal and Infant Health Innovation Authority, as well as appropriating money to open a state Maternal and Infant Health Innovation Center in Trenton. The Authority w...