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Police and mental health professionals have been busy throughout the pandemic.
Police in Schenectady continue to meet with mental health professionals from Northern Rivers Family of Services when certain emergency calls warrant that type of response.
And at Capital Region TMS, a depression treatment facility on Union Street in Schenectady, director of clinical services Mary Ruhle said she’s out straight with patient appointments, and Ruhle is logging 60-plus hour work weeks.
Her colleague, Dr. Thomas Qualtere, said the pandemic has broadened feelings of isolation, stress and even the mourning of loved ones who died of the coronavirus.
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By Susan Arbetter New York State PUBLISHED 4:05 PM ET Apr. 23, 2021 PUBLISHED 4:05 PM EDT Apr. 23, 2021
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th anniversary of the terrorist attacks for full troop withdrawal from Afghanistan.
This means thousands of soldiers who have been stationed half a world away will be returning home to the U.S., many with physical and mental health needs.
Capital Tonight asked former Marine, Derek Coy, the veterans health officer at New York State Health Foundation, to recommend some of the best programs in New York for specific groups of veterans who may need help.
Coy, who served a year in Iraq and a year in southeast Asia, knows what it’s like to return home after combat.
CUNY SPH announces the New York State Vaccine Education and Adoption Project
In a race to transform the vaccine-hesitant into adopters in New York City and surrounding counties as Covid-19 variants rise, the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy (CUNY SPH) has announced the New York State Vaccine Education and Adoption Project.
Building upon the school s pandemic-long commitment to surveying New Yorkers to understand perspectives and its emphasis on engaging community, the project will accomplish three critical goals: to measure vaccine sentiments in the lower nine counties of New York State, to visualize these sentiments to understand where pockets of hesitancy exist, and finally, to design a vaccine literacy program for the most deeply hesitant communities across the five boroughs of New York, as well as Westchester, Rockland, Nassau and Suffolk counties.