September is National Suicide Prevention Month (https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/promote-national-suicide-prevention-month/) and all of us in mental health are reflecting on our ability to prevent suicide. The CANS or ANSA data you are collecting can help you understand both the nature of suicide needs in your population, as well as your programs’ ability to mitigate this need. Regardless if […]
Telehealth’s Impact on Pennsylvania Behavioral Health: A Look at RCPA’s Member Survey
In today’s blog I will review a Rehabilitation & Community Providers Association (RCPA) member survey regarding telehealth impact since the Covid-19 crisis began. (Click here to see the full report). For anyone who has done a member survey, you know that response rates of 25 – 35 providers is not uncommon … which is to […]
Facing our Current Crisis with Data
A family seeking support with housing comes to their local welfare office: How are we going to find them housing when resources are already stripped? A child presenting at a psychiatric emergency ward when the hospital is already overfilled due to COVID-19 cases – What disposition does he need? It is crises like these which […]
Making a Basic Needs Profile
I have had every intention of starting a regular “vlog” series for years, yet have only posted one. I’ve even made a few more than that, but I think I’m somehow screen shy, so have often let them stay tucked away in the recesses of my hard drive. Well, with the Covid-19 crisis, I’ve been […]
Public Health Interventions with Data – Homicide Rates
CDR’s nonprofit mission is to help the development of a data-driven human services system. One way we accomplish this end, is by working to educate communities on publicly available data, and how monitoring it can help them address community problems. Today I am going to talk about data relevant to the debates around policing of […]