We are celebrating Black History Month all February long by recognizing African American leaders that the Foundation has the great fortune of working with. These leaders are addressing the inequities in our behavioral health system and beyond each and everyday. Though we are celebrating this month, we are truly grateful and humbled by their work […]
Category: Blogs
Release of New Positioning Statement
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Underwater: What’s Sinking Families in Philadelphia, a new report from PCCY
Underwater: What’s Sinking Families in Philadelphia, a new report from PCCY […]
Validate. Appreciate. Refer: Active Minds’ new V-A-R model
Validate. Appreciate. Refer: Active Minds’ new V-A-R model […]
Why We RISE Together
By Aminata Diallo and Samantha Matlin Last week, the Readiness and Implementation cohorts reconvened on September 9th and September 10th for their second group learning sessions to connect and learn from each other and apply the fundamentals of program evaluation through the development of logic models and data collection processes. The Readiness and Implementation cohorts […]
Community is Medicine: Social Prescribing and Innovations in Behavioral Health
Community is Medicine: Social Prescribing and Innovations in Behavioral Health […]
How do we save lives now in the face of youth suicide increasing?
How do we save lives now in the face of youth suicide increasing? […]
A Call to Bring Precision Care to More Children’s Providers in Philadelphia
By: Kristen E.M. Gay, Ph.D., President/CEO, Silver Springs – Martin Luther School and Peter York, MSSA, Principal, BCT Partners In February 2018, the Scattergood Foundation published “A New Way to Use Data,“ a case study of the application of machine learning to psychiatric residential treatment for children. This case study shared how Silver Springs launched […]