Affordable Housing in Connecticut Gets $1.8 Million Infusion.
Greenwich, Hartford, and New Haven Initiatives Receive Funding for 33 Units BOSTON, Nov. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- The Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston (the Bank) awarded more than $1.8 million as grants and a subsidized loan to fund 33 units of affordable rental and ownership housing in...

New Orleans, three years after.
The Gulf Coast--and New Orleans, specifically--is far from recovered after being ravaged in 2005 by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Churches and faith-based organizations have responded to the+ humanitarian need with outstanding leadership, at tremendous cost. For example, despite the $104 million in unrecovered property losses following Hurricane Katrina, the...

Design Firm Taps Into Veterans' Subconscious to Aid in Designing First-of-its- Kind Recovery Center.
Astorino and fathom team together to meet the needs of our nation's deserving veterans PITTSBURGH, Nov. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Astorino, an architecture, engineering, interior design and construction services firm, along with their affiliate company, fathom, applied innovative research techniques, never before used on a VA campus, for...

Welvista Announces Partnering with sanofi-aventis U.S. to Provide Medication at No Cost to the Uninsured.
COLUMBIA, S.C., Dec. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Welvista is pleased to announce it has reached an agreement with sanofi-aventis U.S., one of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies, to dispense the company's medications to the uninsured through Welvista's no-cost prescription medication program. With the addition of 23 sanofi-aventis drugs from the...

Perceptions of biopsychosocial services needs among older adults with severe mental illness: met and unmet needs.
The growth of the older population around the world is a well-documented phenomenon. An unprecedented growth of older adults with severe mental illness (SMI) is expected to accompany this changing demographic distribution. Close to 1 million older adults are thought to suffer from SMI now, and this number is...

The PATS peer support program: prevention/early intervention for adolescents who have a parent with mental illness.
PATS (Paying Attention to Self) is a peer support program for adolescent children of parents with a diagnosed mental illness. The program aims to promote positive mental health, reduce the likelihood of mental health difficulties, increase young people's coping skills and empower them to meet their own and their...

Northam Psychotechnologies Provides Futuristic Solutions to Mental Health Issues.
Ottawa-based Company Detects and Treats the Early Onset of Mental Disorders OTTAWA, Nov. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Mental Health Association reports that over 65 million Americans suffer from some type of mental illness. By 2020, mental illness is projected to be the leading cause of the...

Collaborative care ideal in serious mental illness.
Patients with serious mental disorders will be best served when psychiatrists starting thinking like primary care physicians, and primary care physicians start thinking like psychiatrists, experts said at a forum on integrating physical and mental health care. "There has always been this disconnect between what we think...

Integrated care works best against mental illness.
Patients with serious mental disorders will be best served when psychiatrists start thinking like primary care physicians, and primary care physicians start thinking like psychiatrists, experts said at a forum on integrating physical and mental health care. 'There has always been this disconnect between what we think...

Epic genetics: genes' chemical clothes may underlie the biology behind mental illness.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In research circles the debate is settled. Psychiatric illnesses are disorders rooted in biology. As convincing as the evidence is, mysteries still fog our understanding of mental illnesses. Yes, the disorders stem from problems in the brain, but "on the other hand, for...