New paper out in Community Mental Health Journal! I found that administrative burdens—referral hoops, PCP switches, endless phone trees—are barriers keeping families from youth mental health care, especially at Federally Qualified Health Centers Read here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Administrative Burdens as Distinct Barriers to Accessing Mental Health Services in Community Mental Health Centers and Federally Qualified Health Centers: A Mixed-Methods Assessment - Community Mental...

Increasingly, adolescents are struggling with poor mental health outcomes, making it essential to improve access to high-quality mental health services. Community Mental Health Centers (CMHCs) and Fed...

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I joined Dr. Leopoldo Cabassa on That Implementation Science Podcast to talk about psychedelic‑assisted therapy: how do we expand access while staying rooted in rigorous evidence and ethics? With FDA review likely soon, it's time to plan. thatimplementationsciencepodcast.podbean.com/e/psychedeli...

My first year as an Asst. Prof at Mizzou flew by! Grateful to co-found the Collaborative for Missouri Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy with MSW student Greg Williams. We’re building a community to advance equitable psychedelic therapy in MO. Follow us here: healthsciences.missouri.edu/social-work/...

Ever wondered what psychedelic-assisted therapy is? I answer these questions and more in a recent interview! showme.missouri.edu/2025/ask-a-m...

Ask a Mizzou expert: What is psychedelic-assisted therapy?

Mizzou’s Dani Adams is a social work researcher trying to improve access to mental health services.

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I’m considering putting together a panel for APPAM on either mental health policy or policies affecting access to health care. Please email me if you have an abstract you’d be interested in contributing.

APPAM @appam.bsky.social · last yr.

Less than one week remains to submit your research for our Annual Fall Research Conference! Submissions will close at 11:59 PM PT on Wednesday, April 23. Learn all about how to submit, submission types, policy areas, and more here: ow.ly/kfxH50VCUy9

Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away. They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.

Alex Wayne@aawayne.bsky.social · 2y ago

Exclusive: NIH officials have advised scientists to remove reference to mRNA vaccines from their grant applications, in expectation the Trump administration intends to abandon most research in the field. By @arthurallen202.bsky.social kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Interested in holding a similar event to speak out for Medicaid? The organizers of this weekend’s action have put together a toolkit. Find it at docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Protect Medicaid Speakout Tool Kit

People’s Medicaid Speak Out & SingalongToolkit On March 2, 2025 a group of multiracial disabled activists in DC came together to speak out and singalong to send the message: ‘Hands Off Our Medicaid!...

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Matthew Borus@matthewborus.bsky.social · 2y ago

Some photos from today’s grassroots Hands Off Our Medicaid speak out and singalong in DC. Protesters stayed outside the Kennedy Center until security ran them off. The last song of the day was “All You Fascists Bound to Lose.”

New from me: A look at four (of many) areas where Trump and his GOP allies threaten to roll back disability policy: -Disability rights at work -Cuts to the federal workforce -Education -Health care, both in terms of the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid Please check it out!

Cutting Medicaid and federal programs are among 4 key Trump administration policy changes that could make life harder for disabled people

Tracking disability policies has long been challenging − this will become a harder task under the Trump administration.

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Also true for Medicare. It’s actually private health insurers, that Medicare and Medicaid contracts with, that are taking the government for a ride—up to 75 billion healthpolicy.usc.edu/article/over...

Overpayments to Medicare Advantage Plans Could Exceed $75 Billion in 2023, USC Schaeffer Center Research Finds

Overpayments to Medicare Advantage plans now exceed 20% annually, underscoring the urgent need for reform.

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Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com · 2y ago

Just an FYI: Medicaid fraud is rarely perpetrated by beneficiaries. The fraudsters are almost always the doctors and CEO's that administer Medicaid. For example: when a doctor charges the government $600 for an $8 breast pump and pockets the cash and the third party administrator takes a cut.

antivaxx is a luxury belief that only was able to fester because vaccines were so effective that people forgot how horrible these diseases are

NBC News@nbcnews.com · 2y ago

As the measles outbreak in Texas keeps spreading, parents who previously chose not to vaccinate their children are now lining up to get their kids the shots needed to protect them from the serious illness.

This is what House Republicans voted for tonight. Another reminder that we have socialism for the rich, harsh capitalism for the rest.

Call your reps!! Hands off Medicaid!

Timothy McBride@mcbridetd.bsky.social · 2y ago

House Republicans scramble for Plan B on Medicaid cuts www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

Republican House Budget Resolution’s Potential $880 Billion in Medicaid Cuts by Congressional District Republican House budget resolution would cost congressional districts an average of $2 billion each and could eliminate coverage for 15.9 million people www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

The Republican House Budget Resolution's Potential $880 Billion in Medicaid Cuts by Congressional District

The Republican House budget resolution would cost congressional districts an average of $2 billion each and could eliminate coverage for 15.9 million people.

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"The majority of traffic fatalities happen in what transportation researchers call high-injury networks. These are typically locations where people walk or bike on or near roads with speed limits set at 35 to 45 miles per hour..." harvardpublichealth.org/policy-pract...

“When you design roads, that is public health.”

Vision Zero has helped some cities eliminate traffic deaths, but the program continues to face roadblocks to wider implementation.

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Medicaid is important for Missouri

This is a reminder for myself as well as anyone else who needs it: amidst all this chaos and confusion, pick your lane. Find something to do that will provide agency, educate those in your community and push back against what is happening

Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽@needhibhalla.bsky.social · 2y ago

Y’all we are in this for a long haul. We’ve got navigate this anxiety and develop both a personal vision and collective vision of what our worlds will look like to motivate us, the people we lead and the people who lead us. We need to identify both short term and long term organizing opportunities

ProPublica found that some of the largest health insurers have created a playbook that prevents people from getting the mental health care they need. Join us tomorrow, Feb. 20 at 4 p.m. ET for a virtual conversation as we discuss barriers to care. RSVP: https://propub.li/4k4GYWm

Great mayoral forum tonight on transit issues in St Louis. Feeling empowered that change can still happen at the local level

St. Louis Urbanists@stlurbanists.bsky.social · 2y ago

Join us TONIGHT for a Mayoral Forum on Transportation Infrastructure and make your voice heard! 🕕 Time: 6-7:30 PM 📍 Location: Paraquad's office, 5240 Oakland Ave. Come hear our mayoral candidates' plans for improving our city. #STL #StreetsForAll

They're dismantling the Institute for Education Sciences to create the illusion of meritocracy. Because no data means no evidence of systemic inequities.

Join us TONIGHT for a Mayoral Forum on Transportation Infrastructure and make your voice heard! 🕕 Time: 6-7:30 PM 📍 Location: Paraquad's office, 5240 Oakland Ave. Come hear our mayoral candidates' plans for improving our city. #STL #StreetsForAll

This article--on the systematic dismantling of the NIH, NSF, and CDC--is a must-read not only for researchers and clinicians but for anyone who has ever gotten a vaccine, taken medication, read the results of a research study, or gotten tested for Covid, flu, or STIs. www.science.org/content/blog...

Revised and Extended: What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF

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The #Medicaid work requirement train is revving up again. Let's be clear about this: Medicaid is a health insurance program, not a jobs program. There is no evidence that Medicaid work requirements improve health or produce other benefits. They are a barrier to care & a driver of inequity (1/n)

Arkansas Advocate@arkansasadvocate.com · 2y ago

Arkansas is again seeking a Medicaid work requirement that state officials say incorporates lessons learned from previous attempts. Arkansas became the first state to implement a work requirement in 2018, but a federal judge halted the policy the following year. #arpx

I used to work for an elected official as the person who answered their emails. I can tell you from personal experience, if even twenty or thirty people all call an official in a day, they start panicking. This stuff does help.

Andrew D Thaler@drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 2y ago

I know you hate this advice. I know you hear it all the time, but for gods sake you need to be calling your congressperson. Now. Today. If you have a GOP representative, you need to call and ask if they approve of stripping congress of its constitutional authority. If they like being powerless.

Timeline cleanse! Please enjoy this timeline of photos of my orange boy,Teddy, annoying my awnry cat, Biscuits

the resounding success of congestion pricing has been the lone bright spot over the past week’s horrors from the Trump administration New York City has successfully cut traffic, increased transit ridership, sped up buses, reduced car crashes, and raised billions to fund MTA improvements all at once

The effect — and I believe purpose — of these pardons is to encourage vigilantes and militias loyal to the president, but unaccountable to the government. There is great value to him in having members of these groups released and silence his critics through violence www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/o...

Opinion | I Prosecuted the Capitol Rioters. I Know Why Trump Pardoned Them.

Trump’s pardons will encourage more violence.

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