The Social Work - 🤝The new emergency hotline
Good morning! ☀️ Yesterday, the mental health emergency hotline officially rebranded. Users can now dial 988 instead of having to remember the memorable number of the old hotline: 1-800-273-8255 (Yes, this is also the title of Logic’s song, 1-800-273-8255, which may have actually led to a decrease in suicides). The goal of the rebranding is to allow the hotline to be more easily remembered. Also, the hotline will allow for the dispatching of mental health professionals instead of police officers. Because this is a government initiative, it will take time to be fully implemented across the country. Currently, many cities are scrambling to hire employees for the hotline. This leads us to wonder whether this could be an opportunity to create paid opportunities for graduate students 👀 Question: Worldwide, what are the top 3 causes of death? NewsThe shifting business landscapeMental healthcare in the United States is undergoing a seismic shift. As we’ve discussed previously, funding in the space, especially in digital behavioral health, has increased exponentially over the past few years. Furthermore, the funding is pushing us into exciting new areas such as psychedelics, which show promise in treating certain mental health disorders such as anxiety and substance use disorders. Yet this optimism has begun to be balanced with realism. Recently, some platforms have come under scrutiny for unethical practices such as sharing users’ personal data and overprescribing ADHD medication. This, and the apprehension over the situation of the economy, has led some companies to begin cutting costs. This has resulted in layoffs, something which we might continue to see moving forward. But in a more general sense, seeing beyond the effects of the current economic climate, the unfortunate reality is that businesses are still not responding to the needs of those that need it most. The concept that businesses, and the economy in general, neglects and further isolates people who are marginalized and disenfranchised is called disinvestment. And disinvestment is correlated with other negative results such as gun violence, which is exemplified through the picture below: As you can see, there is a relationship between disinvestment (in this case, how far residents live from a bank) and gun violence. How do we overcome disinvestment? One strategy is to uplift those who are disenfranchised by reducing poverty and the factors that are related to poverty such as the lack of access to education, housing, and health. This can be done through improving schools in low-income neighborhoods, investing in quality affordable housing, and providing universal or subsidized health insurance. Other strategies include preventing or minimizing displacement, which is when rising home prices push residents out from their neighborhood and into more disinvested communities and perhaps adopting new strategies such as community-centered economic inclusion, which is an approach to build wealth in underinvested places, while driving more equitable city and regional growth. Other social work-related news
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