In 2020, the Scattergood Foundation will be 15 years old. In our decade and a half, the Foundation has built new programs, expanded staff, and developed areas of focus – navigating significant change. Through our evolution, we have had the opportunity to learn and grow, but maintained an unwavering commitment to improving behavioral health and […]
Month: January 2020
NatCon 2020: Kaleidoscope
Dates: April 5-7, 2020 Location: Austin, Texas Join over 6,000 professionals representing the best in behavioral health will attend this national convening. Scattergood Foundation President, Joe Pyle, will speak about overdose prevention sites and Scattergood Grantee, Dominic Sisti, of Scattergood Ethics will present on the ethical challenges of behavioral health care in jails and prisons. […]
Active Minds National Conference 2020: Bridging Gaps
Dates: February 21-22, 2020 Location: Capital Hilton Hotel, Washington DC. The Active Minds Conference is the nation’s premier conference focused on youth and mental health. At the conference the Scattergood Foundation staff will meet the 2020 Emerging Scholars. Learn more […]
New Paper Recommending the Behavioral Health System as Intercept 0
People with serious mental illness are overrepresented in the justice system, and most county jails in the United States house three times as many people with serious mental illness as would be expected from community-based estimates. The authors of a newly released paper in the Think Bigger Do Good Policy Series review the complex array […]
Agenda for Change: Unite. Connect. Act.
Date: February 6, 2020 Location: Russell Senate Office Building Washington, DC Agenda for Change unites policymakers, health care leaders, and advocates in support of a roadmap for change for mental health and substance use disorders. Learn more Can’t attend in person? Watch via livestream on The Kennedy Forum’s YouTube page at 9:30am ET on February 6, 2020. […]
Mental Health Happy Hour
This is a good story about mental health. Let’s say a bunch of social workers, nurses, trauma specialists, philanthropists, non-profit professionals, writers, EMTs, and data crunchers walk into a bar. Knock knock, no joke, this actually happened in December 2019. Mental health professionals begin to schmooze over spinach mushroom rolls, cheese and hummus platters, and […]