Thankfully, public systems in Virginia are educating professionals and peers about the lasting effects of trauma on individuals’ mental health. Trauma-informed care treatments help more than harm, and we can’t adopt them soon enough. Fight, ...
Continue ReadingVirginia peers who want to become a Certified Peer Recovery Specialists have until the end of 2016 to qualify under the current standards. Here is the news directly from the state’s liaison with the certification board, in an email dated April 5th: ...
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This year, I’ve been thinking a lot about how change gets made. Journalists joke about the process of reporting as “How the sausage gets made” – a visual, smelly reminder that creating something can be messy. That final newspaper...
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Virginia’s Department of Medical Assistance has released a draft of regulations for Medicaid-billable peer support for mental health and/or substance use disorders. The distribution was dated Friday, February 10th at noon (see below) and there was...
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