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VR & Behavioral Healthcare Symposium – Full Schedule
Please download the full schedule for the upcoming VR & Behavioral Healthcare Symposium coming to Anschutz October 7 & 8. Get your tickets now!
New Podcast Episode: 009: Project Second Helping – Re-Recording with Justin Kruger
In this episode Matt sits down (again) with Justin Kruger, the founder of Project Helping, a volunteer network founded not only with the intention of bettering communities but benefiting the mental wellness of its volunteers. Check out the episode here or wherever you get your podcasts.
New Podcast Episode: 008: Capitol Crusader Leslie Herod – Using Policy in the Fight to Improve Mental Health
In this episode, Matt and Rick interview Representative Leslie Herod at the Capitol Building in downtown Denver. Rep. Herod is the first LGBTQ African American in the General Assembly, and has been fighting for crucial new legislation to better the community she comes form, and Denver as a whole. You can listen to it here, or wherever you get your …
Broken Hearts and Stunned Public: Suicides Take Front Page
How can this be? This week, two prominent people, both bright lights in their industries, died from suicide. Anthony Bourdain, the celebrity chef turned author and TV host, who seemed to always grab life by the lapels with vigor and humor, died June 8. Kate Spade, the designer whose empire starting with women’s handbags, built a brand of joy – …
Teardrop Tattoos, Prison Life and Smart Justice
The teardrop tattoos on his face were clues that the inmate was imprisoned for a serious violent crime, probably murder. He and the other inmates we met were, clearly, not the usual people that we engage in our quest for innovations in mental healthcare. As we prepared to take virtual reality tools to the maximum-security Spring Creek Correctional Center in …
Olympics, Technology and Inspiration
Every Olympics produces great competition and memorable stories. Remember these moments? In Beijing 2008, Michael Phelps’ eight gold medals as the greatest swimmer of all time and Usain Bolt’s three gold for three world records as the fastest man alive. The 1980 “Miracle on Ice” as a ragtag group of Americans defeated the mighty Soviets in ice hockey. Gymnast Nadia …
Lesson: Mental Illness and American Business
Students at the University of Colorado Boulder Leeds School of Business are studying accounting, finance, management, marketing, and…mental health? That’s right. Mental health is a business issue, being taken seriously in the workplace and also at the business school on the CU flagship campus. Loss of productivity, absenteeism, employee turnover, workplace accidents and disability: these are just a few of the costly results from mental illness in the workplace. The impact of mental illness to the U.S. economy is an estimated $300 billion a year, with business absorbing half of that, as one in five adults struggles with mental illness in any given year. The cost of substance misuse, a behavioral health problem, is about the same.
Building Strong Mental Health Advocates Through Faith-Based Outreach
VA Mental Health and Chaplaincy Innovates with Faith-Based Mental Health Outreach By Susan Churchill, NBHIC Board of Directors As mental health advocates all over the world continue to empower non-traditional caregivers in order to extend mental health support, the Veteran’s Administration is in the process of pioneering the faith-based VA Mental Health and Chaplaincy program. This is the VA’s way of not …
Tech and Mental Health
Mental health technology is on a tear. It seems every time we look around there is a new app or program aimed at mental health needs. It’s exciting to see technology added to traditional mental health care treatments and professional training, as tech can bring greater access, mobility and potentially, better outcomes. Recently, we ran across podcasts that caught our …