Sober Grid will be able to offer clients custom, browser-based web portals designed with their community’s mental health needs in mind.
Help@Hand, a project supported by California Mental Health Services Authority (CalMHSA), aims to build a complementary support system that offers a bridge to care, helps identify early signs of mental health challenges, offers timely support, removes barriers, and seeks to include new avenues of care for communities not connected to conventional county services.
A biologically focused approach has dominated the American healthcare system for decades. Most of America’s national funds for mental health have gone to the biomedical model, emphasizing pharmacological treatments. Ergo, very little of the federal budget is allocated for building protective and risk factor solutions. Obviously, a shift to alternative measures for protective and risk factor management is needed.
Mental healthcare is an intricate process driven by multiple factors in a person’s life. Therefore, creating a single holistic mental health model is crucial to understanding how individuals react to events in their lives.
In the field of public health, the term “upstream” is often heard. This stems from a popular parable that highlights the importance of looking at health issues from a preventative perspective.