Tag: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
CODAC aids $1.5M expansion, evaluation of RIDOC MAT program
CRANSTON – The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration has awarded Brown University researchers a three-year, $1.5 million grant to expand and evaluate...
Five Questions With: Susan A. Orban
South County Healthy Bodies, Healthy Minds – one of Rhode Island’s 10 Health Equity Zones – is using $2 million from the Substance Abuse...
R.I. receives $15M in federal funds to combat opioids
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island is receiving $15 million to combat the opioid crisis from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the department...
BCBSRI: Addiction recovery better at home
PROVIDENCE – Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island is working to change common opinion that recovery must happen at far-away locales, sharing...
R.I. receives $10M increase in opioid-mitigation funding
PROVIDENCE – Sens. Jack F. Reed, D-R.I., and Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., led an effort to successfully change the grant formula for state opioid-mitigation funding...
R.I. delegation announces second round of $2.1M to fight opioid epidemic
PROVIDENCE - A second round of $2.1 million in federal funds has been awarded to the R.I. Department of Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and...
Communities implement MHFA training to address mental distress
Mental Health First Aid, a training program created in Australia in 2001 by Betty Kitchener, a nurse specializing in health education, and Anthony Jorm,...
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