View the digital edition of National Council Magazine on Behavioral Health and Primary Care Collaboration

Winter 2009

Behavioral Health and Primary Care Collaboration

The National Council has played a leading role in advocating for policies and practices that break down barriers to integration and collaboration, developing clinical and business models that support seamless and comprehensive healthcare, and fostering collaborative opportunities. Advocating for funds to bring primary care services to behavioral health organizations has been a National Council legislative priority. We've also been active on the practice improvement front and have helped member organizations and their primary care partners overcome clinical, cultural, and communication barriers to collaboratively provide comprehensive healthcare.

The Winter 2009 issue of National Council Magazine features the policy and practice landscape in collaborative healthcare and shares examples "From the Field" of how members across the country are collaborating to provide total healthcare for mind and body to those they serve.

Fall 2008

This special edition of National Council Magazine portrays the current landscape in children’s mental health and addictions.

The magazine outlines the challenges in funding, policy, and practice; and highlights innovative and effective community services and supports that are increasingly available to children and youth with behavioral health challenges and to their families. We point to what still needs to be done — with all of us working together — to provide a better future for our young people. The magazine speaks to our progress and also to
the possibilities that lie ahead.

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Summer 2008

Veterans on the Road Home

As increasing numbers of soldiers return home from Iraq and Afghanistan bearing the scars of battle in the form of mental illnesses and addiction disorders, the need for treatment far exceeds the capacity of the Veterans Administration. Across our nation, more than 2,000 community-based mental health and addictions organizations are ideally equipped to treat our troops for disabling mental and substance use disorders and help them reintegrate into civilian life. With deep roots in their communities, these providers deliver critical mental health and addictions services to nearly six million Americans annually and now they’re opening their doors and extending their services to veterans and veterans’ families.

The veterans issue of National Council Magazine highlights the difficult road home and what treatment organizations around the country can do to make homecoming easier for our wounded heroes.


CORRECTION

We regret the error on pages 4 and 14 of the print issue of the veterans magazine.

The correct statistic should read "Nearly 1 in 5 (300,000) soldiers who have served in Iraq or Afghanistan have posttraumatic stress disorder or depression..."

Due to a typographical error, the number was mistakenly printed as 30,000 instead of 300,000.