North Carolina’s Plan to Address the Mental Health and Substance Use Crisis
NC Governor announces $1B investment in behavioral health and resilience services to transform mental health and substance abuse services, focusing on building stronger crisis support systems, increasing access to care, and using data/technology for better health outcomes. The plan also includes measures to expand telehealth services, improve school care, and enhance the quality of life.
Nonprofit Success Outside the Industrial Complex
Non-profit organizations have been established to serve various causes, from environmental preservation to substance abuse prevention. However, staying true to the core mission of these organizations can sometimes be a challenge, especially when it comes to funding.
The Current Mental Health Landscape in America
Media saturation has caused stress and uneasiness for many people. Social media is now a primary news source, providing instant access to events that are hard to escape. There aren’t a lot of opportunities to “unplug” from the stressors that accompany life and unprecedented events. This constant engagement can amplify anxiety, depression, and other mental health conditions.
5 Tips to Protect Your Privacy Online
For this week’s segment of Our Ideas, Principal Tina Simpson brings us five ways to protect your data and privacy on your adventures scouring the internet. To recap the importance of this past Saturday’s holiday, Data Privacy Day, we hope these tips highlight and bring awareness about respecting privacy, safeguarding data, and how to enable trust among you and your peers.
Our Strained Healthcare System
From a patient’s perspective, Liz Hait brings us her experience of navigating the system to seek medical treatment and the experiences that opened her eyes to what we’ve been ignoring, the unraveling of the U.S. healthcare system.
Understanding Employee Burnout
When we feel like the work that we are doing is not making a difference, no matter what we’ve done, how we do it, or how long we keep trying, we aren’t making a dent; it is emotionally exhausting. It’s time to address employee burnout.
Reflecting On 2022
Michealle says goodbye to a troublesome year and reflects on the highs and lows of 2022.
Disparities in Healthcare: A Prevalent Challenge in the U.S.
Challenges with healthcare disparities are not new to the American healthcare delivery system. It has become a hot topic in the healthcare arena. Guest Author Lavondia Alexander comes this week with the challenges of healthcare disparities and potential solutions.
Where To Begin In Email Marketing
Emailing your audience is one of the best ways to keep your clients up to date with the latest trends in your business, highlight any offers or events they should attend, and maintain a solid business-to-client relationship.
Reflections on Digital Security Awareness: Why Availability is Not the Same Thing as Accessibility
While October has now passed, recognizing the threat of cyber-attacks is closer to the front of mind for business leaders across industries. There is also no shortage of activity among cybersecurity professionals, advocates, and the federal government to inform the broader community of best practices.
Don’t Speak: The Consequences of Silencing Healthcare
When legislation is in pursuit of controlling the narrative in one space, we automatically reduce the number of areas in which someone can explore who they are, find their support system, and begin to integrate that part of their identity into their overall self.
Addressing the Shift from Traditional to Digital Mental Healthcare Services
How we deliver healthcare is rapidly evolving, the use of telehealth and mHealth applications in behavioral health interventions and management is one example where technology innovations provide at least partial solutions to critical deficits in our healthcare network.
3 Elements Your Website Needs For Search Results
You don’t realize how important your website is until you have to dive into the interworkings of how it operates. The website is where all your current and potential clients, partners, and stakeholders go for updates, offers, and contact information on your company. So, what can you do to keep it in shape?
Policy & Procedure Components You Need For Your Organization’s Success
Writing and organizing accessible policies and procedures for an organization, its employees, and contractors is essential. Policies and procedures lay the foundation upon which organizations are built, reflecting your values, and guiding your employees.
Proper Cybersecurity Practices Amid Big Data & Privacy Breaches
Between Peiter Zatko’s testimony before Congress regarding Twitter’s privacy and security operations earlier this month and Uber’s data breach last week, the last few weeks have been eventful when it comes to #InfoSec headlines.
No Surprises (?) in the No Surprises Act
Earlier this January, I had my yearly physical. After my visit, I paid my copay and went about my day, assuming that was the end. Then in May, I received a mystery bill of $200 for services rendered “by my provider.” What a surprise! Let’s talk about the absurdity of the No Surprise Act, shall we?
A Case Study in Security by Design & the Cost of Failure
Two weeks ago, the Washington Post broke a story on the former Twitter Executive and head of security, Peiter Zatko, blowing the whistle on Twitter’s privacy and security practices.
Entering the New Era of Housing
It is unsurprising to anyone reading this that we face a multi-layered housing crisis. An individual making a median annual income cannot afford the price of a median-cost home. Dante Haywood of Cape Fear Collective gives us facts about the affordable housing crisis.
Social Issue Advocacy: The Next Level of Employee Engagement
It has become more accessible and increasingly crucial for organizations to interact with their local and federal policymakers. Abby Emanuelson shares insights from her 20 years of running advocacy campaigns for national nonprofits.
The Big Question: Is there Harm Reduction in Healthcare?
There’s no denying it: healthcare is full of bureaucracy (even spelling “bureaucracy” feels bureaucratic). We’re told that red tape is about quality and cost containment. But is it really?
Fundraising Is Advocacy: Building Awareness & Action for Community Causes
What comes to mind when you think about “fundraising?” Kathleen Peters, Director of Charitable Giving at A Safe Place, challenges what many have come to believe when they hear “fundraising.” It is about more than the money; for Kathleen, fundraising is advocacy.
A Spotlight on Competition: Reflections on Adam Smith, Alain Enthoven, and Winston Churchill
In the United States, we rely upon free market principles of competition, supply, and demand to provide efficient pricing related to healthcare services. This reliance has led to excessive market concentration in health care. While Americans have spent the past 50 years resolutely resisting proactive regulation to correct this market failure, Atrómitos Principal Tina Simpson shares why she is hopeful that recent “course corrections” applied via an Executive Order and agency action from the FTC and DOJ are not too little too late.
Challenging Nostalgia and the Fallacy of “Return”
Almost immediately after we began addressing the COVID-19 pandemic, we began talking about a “return” to pre-COVID times. That conversation is still happening. Peter Freeman reflects on what a “return” really is, and whether or not we should be clamoring to go there.
Post-Public Health Emergency: Don’t Forget the Importance of Telehealth
The COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) moved us to provide and receive telehealth services. As the PHE comes to an end, many of us are reluctant to give up the flexibilities and access telehealth providers to achieve and maintain health. This week, Principal Tina Simpson reminds us about our pre-COVID telehealth experience and advocates for continued (and maybe increased?) access through telehealth.<
Where is the Healthcare Support for Our Aging Population?
As we age, we face an increased risk of disease and decrease the capability to manage daily activities independently and effectively. Nancy Duzick, RN of Community Care Lower Cape Fear, shares the importance of patient education and support, patient disease self-management, and accessible resources through Medicare.
It’s Pride, Y’all: From Pride to Trauma and Back Again
On May 31, 2022, President Biden signed a proclamation announcing June as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex Pride Month in the United States. Peter Freeman reflects on Pride Month through the lens of identity-based trauma. He also reminds us that Pride isn’t just about who is here now but about who has yet to arrive.
North Carolina’s Tailored Plan: To Contract or Not to Contract
Are you ready for North Carolina’s Tailored Plan contracting? If not, get a quick definitional run down of the Tailored Plans and key aspects of the program to help evaluate your contracting strategies and decisions. This is particularly timely because one key date is coming up very quickly – July 16, 2022 – providers must have executed contracts with Tailored Plans to be included in the initial beneficiary choice period.
Understanding Cybersecurity and Sutton’s Law: Where the Money Is
There is no shortage of reasons why it is imperative for healthcare providers to improve their cybersecurity insurance. But, recently, doing so has become harder and more costly. Principal Tina Simpson breaks down the causes of these challenges and discusses why coverage is still important. (And if you don’t think the coverage is important, just ask Willie Sutton.)
A Conversation We All Need To Have.
It keeps happening: Domestic terrorism waged with military-grade weaponry against our children, our families, our communities, and our sense of safety. And we – by and through our government – have done exactly zero to stop it. Because this will keep happening, it is a conversation that we all need to have.
SCOTUS: Denying the Essential Humanity and Equality of Women
Atrómitos Founder, President, & CEO Michealle Gady, reflects on the implications of the leaked draft SCOTUS opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade and deny the essential humanity and equality of women.