​Creating a Mentally Healthy Nation for All: the APA Foundation (Ep. 137)

​Creating a Mentally Healthy Nation for All: the APA Foundation 

 (Ep. 137)

A discussion with Dr. Vedrana Hodzic, Director of Fellowships and Medical Education for the American Psychiatric Association Foundation, and Dr. Brendan Ross a psychiatry resident at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. 

The conversation focused on:

•  the APA Foundation's mission to create a mentally healthy nation, with particular emphasis on their community-based mental health programs. 
• Brendan shared his experience working with intensive mobile treatment teams in New York City, which provide mobile psychiatric care to people with severe mental illness in their homes and apartments. 
• Dr. Hodzic discussed the Foundation's work integrating mental health services with faith communities through the Mother Cabrini grant program, which includes training peer navigators and increasing access to mental health care in religious settings. 
• Challenges in psychiatry, including the need for better reimbursement rates for mental health services and strategies for working with families of people with serious mental illness.
•  The guests emphasized the importance of relationship-building and patience in treating individuals with severe mental illness, noting that successful outcomes often require extended periods of trust-building with patients.

Links

https://www.apaf.org/

https://smilrc.org/

https://www.smart911.com/

    link: https://www.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.pn.2026.02.2.3

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