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Showing posts with label veterans. Show all posts
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Saturday, May 26, 2012
CRC Health Group Joins Hero Health Hire to Promote Employment of America's Wounded Warriors and Veterans
CUPERTINO, CA--(Marketwire -05/17/12)- CRC Health Group today announced that it has joined Hero Health Hire, a coalition of companies and other entities in the health care industry that are united with the goal of employing wounded warriors and veterans. Launched in Washington, D.C. at a 2011 industry summit that included the U.S. Secretary of Labor, members of Congress, and representatives of a number of government agencies and the military, Hero Health Hire includes companies, associations and hospitals from across the spectrum of health care that collectively employ hundreds of thousands of employees. Each has committed to working to help veterans find and retain jobs in health care.
"It is our privilege and our duty to join this coalition of health care partner organizations, to support our wounded warriors and veteran patriots with employment options within CRC Health Group," said Andy Eckert, CEO of CRC. "We pride ourselves in providing the best quality care to those who are willing to fight for our freedom daily. Our treatment experts do everything possible to ensure our servicemen and women lead ongoing productive lives."
CRC Health Group has TRICARE-certified treatment programs in North Carolina, Florida, Virginia and Texas that treat members of the U.S. armed forces and their beneficiaries. Since 1993 these facilities have served over 7,000 beneficiaries.
Four-Star General Barry McCaffrey (Ret), the former National Drug Policy Director and a CRC Health Group senior advisor and board member, stated: "I am proud that CRC, with whom I've worked since I left the White House, has a high priority to help veterans recover from mental health, substance abuse, and PTSD issues, and to hire veterans for positions on the CRC team. There is no more important group in America than our service men and women and veterans, and CRC strongly recognizes this."
This announcement falls on the heels of a recent national conference, "Freedom and Recovery: Integrated Mental Health and Addiction Treatment for Service Members," at which Eckert and General McCaffrey were featured speakers. In a media interview, Eckert acknowledged the benefits of employing veterans on the treatment staff, saying it makes them more relevant to the numerous active duty, veteran and TRICARE beneficiary populations which CRC treats. CRC Health Group actively seeks employees with military experience, posting jobs with employment groups at military installations and with military community partners.
According to Hero Health Hire, each month, tens of thousands of Wounded Warriors, men and women in the military who have been injured or become ill during service, transition out of the military, only to struggle in the civilian workforce. For many, they may be interviewing for a job or writing a resume for the first time, unsure of how military skills and experiences might translate or what accommodations may be needed for transition to a civilian workplace.
The health care industry is considered this nation's fastest growing industry; current estimates are that 30 million people work in this field. These jobs require skilled individuals to help meet multi-generational health care needs. This industry is therefore uniquely positioned to understand and support the unique needs of this nation's veterans and the wounded warriors who return home to face physical and mental health challenges.
Hero Health Hire unites the health care industry with government agencies and the military to understand and eliminate the barriers to employment facing wounded warriors, as well as developing ways to the support them in their transition. Since its inception, Hero Health Hire has recruited additional industry partners representing more than a half million employees with worksites in every U.S. state.
CRC Health Group also just announced that its National Military Programs Liaison, Nancy Evanko, has joined the advisory board for Hero Health Hire, further expanding the synergy between these two entities.
About Hero Health Hire:
Hero Health Hire is a coalition of 30 health care industry leaders employing more than 500,000 Americans in all 50 states and who share the common goal of helping wounded warriors gain employment within health care organizations that are well-suited to their skills and will offer them opportunities for professional, financial and personal stability. For more information, visit www.HeroHealthHire.com
About CRC Health Group:
CRC Health Group is the most comprehensive network of specialized behavioral healthcare services in the nation. CRC offers the largest array of personalized treatment options, allowing individuals, families and professionals to choose the most appropriate treatment setting for their behavioral, addiction, weight management and therapeutic education needs. CRC is committed to making its services widely and easily available, while maintaining a passion for delivering advanced treatment. Since 1995, CRC has been helping individuals and families reclaim and enrich their lives. For more information, visit www.crchealth.com or call (877) 637-6237.
Sunday, January 15, 2012
Houston mental health expert does his part to help veterans
Dr. John Oldham is president of the American Psychiatric Association and chief of staff at the Menninger Clinic in Houston.
Last week, Oldham participated in a roundtable discussion at the White House on raising awareness among civilian health care providers of combat-related mental health conditions, and to better coordinate care among civilian, military and veterans health care systems.
Chronicle reporter Lindsay Wise interviewed Oldham about the national effort to reduce the stigma surrounding post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury, and to help military personnel and their families transition smoothly to civilian life.
Q: What did you discuss Tuesday at the White House?
A: This is in connection with this initiative that was launched by Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden called Joining Forces, and what that entails is really to try to address some of the needs of the returning military from overseas and combat, and help them even beyond the regular channels that they would normally be using to get help. … They want not only to provide educational information for the families and the public, they also want to facilitate access to appropriate mental health care, and the third thing they want to do is help returning veterans with obtaining meaningful employment. And so what the Joining Forces initiative has done is, it's pulled together key officials from the Department of Defense and from Veterans Affairs and is trying to link and bridge all of their efforts with leaders from all of the civilian organizations that would be pertinent in a comprehensive program of care. What they want to do is build a strong bridge between the military help that they receive immediately on returning from deployment and continuing care as they re-enter society.
Q: Why is it important to raise awareness among civilian health care providers about neurological and psychological issues affecting military service members and their families?
A: It's estimated that about 50 percent of military personnel who need mental health care do not get it, and one of the big reasons is the tremendous stigma that's associated with seeking help for mental problems. Part of the goal here is to heighten awareness among the public to what they call the military culture, so part of the educational materials that this effort is putting together include trying to help people understand the military culture, which really doesn't make it comfortable for these people to seek help for psychiatric problems. Sometimes there are soldiers who are coming back and want to go back for another tour of duty, so there has to be a careful evaluation as to whether that's safe for the soldiers and whether they're fully recovered or can become fully recovered to do that. An analogy is the stories you see in the news about professional football players who have concussions and don't want people to know it because they want to be able to go back in the game.
Q: I've spoken to troops and their families who said they don't want to see a military doctor or therapist for mental health issues because they're worried it will affect their security clearances or damage their careers.
A: That's not uncommon because there's a real perception that you're going to jeopardize your military career if you're known to be seeing mental health care providers, and that's part of what this whole effort wants to work against, and help people get over and get past.
Q: What can civilians do that the military isn't already doing?
A: We hope that we can also encourage civilian employers to become a little more proactive in reaching out to returning soldiers to make employment opportunities available to them. Employers would benefit from availing themselves of a lot of this educational material to understand what the re-entry process is like and the experience is like for soldiers returning from combat. … Over the next four years there will be about a million military personnel coming off of active duty as the military downsizes. So that's a lot of people who are going to be looking for alternative occupational situations and having to make pretty remarkable changes because a lot of these are career military who haven't known a whole lot else.
lindsay.wise@chron.com
Helping veterans return to health home
Dr. John Oldham is president of the American Psychiatric Association and chief of staff at the Menninger Clinic in Houston.
Last week, Oldham participated in a roundtable discussion at the White House on raising awareness among civilian health care providers of combat-related mental health conditions, and to better coordinate care among civilian, military and veterans health care systems.
Chronicle reporter Lindsay Wise interviewed Oldham about the national effort to reduce the stigma surrounding post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury, and to help military personnel and their families transition smoothly to civilian life.
Q: What did you discuss Tuesday at the White House?
A: This is in connection with this initiative that was launched by Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden called Joining Forces, and what that entails is really to try to address some of the needs of the returning military from overseas and combat, and help them even beyond the regular channels that they would normally be using to get help. … They want not only to provide educational information for the families and the public, they also want to facilitate access to appropriate mental health care, and the third thing they want to do is help returning veterans with obtaining meaningful employment. And so what the Joining Forces initiative has done is, it's pulled together key officials from the Department of Defense and from Veterans Affairs and is trying to link and bridge all of their efforts with leaders from all of the civilian organizations that would be pertinent in a comprehensive program of care. What they want to do is build a strong bridge between the military help that they receive immediately on returning from deployment and continuing care as they re-enter society.
Q: Why is it important to raise awareness among civilian health care providers about neurological and psychological issues affecting military service members and their families?
A: It's estimated that about 50 percent of military personnel who need mental health care do not get it, and one of the big reasons is the tremendous stigma that's associated with seeking help for mental problems. Part of the goal here is to heighten awareness among the public to what they call the military culture, so part of the educational materials that this effort is putting together include trying to help people understand the military culture, which really doesn't make it comfortable for these people to seek help for psychiatric problems. Sometimes there are soldiers who are coming back and want to go back for another tour of duty, so there has to be a careful evaluation as to whether that's safe for the soldiers and whether they're fully recovered or can become fully recovered to do that. An analogy is the stories you see in the news about professional football players who have concussions and don't want people to know it because they want to be able to go back in the game.
Q: I've spoken to troops and their families who said they don't want to see a military doctor or therapist for mental health issues because they're worried it will affect their security clearances or damage their careers.
A: That's not uncommon because there's a real perception that you're going to jeopardize your military career if you're known to be seeing mental health care providers, and that's part of what this whole effort wants to work against, and help people get over and get past.
Q: What can civilians do that the military isn't already doing?
A: We hope that we can also encourage civilian employers to become a little more proactive in reaching out to returning soldiers to make employment opportunities available to them. Employers would benefit from availing themselves of a lot of this educational material to understand what the re-entry process is like and the experience is like for soldiers returning from combat. … Over the next four years there will be about a million military personnel coming off of active duty as the military downsizes. So that's a lot of people who are going to be looking for alternative occupational situations and having to make pretty remarkable changes because a lot of these are career military who haven't known a whole lot else.
lindsay.wise@chron.com
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