Addressing Mental Health as a Community Issue in El Salvador
Mental health project offers a series of workshops to help the residents of Arcatao work through trauma.
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A couple watches as workers bury the bodies of people who died from COVID-19 in El Salvador.
Six years ago, as U.S. members of the El Salvador Mental Health Project and the Association for the Development of El Salvador convened a meeting of people who had been health promoters during their countryâs twelve-year civil war (1980-1992), it immediately became clear that asking them to talk about their experiences as lay health care providers was going to be emotionally difficult.
The federal agency that regulates nursing homes, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), will require facilities to publicly report covid-19 vaccination rates for staff and residents starting May 21.
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Permanent wage increase essential for Michigan DCWs (Image Credit (Resch Strategies/Media Image))
After an important amendment to fully fund Michigan s Direct Care workforce wage increase was struck down in the state s House Appropriations Committee this morning, advocates and families are again calling for a permanent fix to support caregivers over the long term.
State Rep. Felicia Brabec (D-Pittsfield Twp.) offered today s amendment with the support of several other Democrat committee members. We are incredibly grateful to Rep. Brabec and her colleagues for their initiative and urge the full chamber to support this amendment when the budget reaches the House floor, said Robert Stein, general counsel for the Michigan Assisted Living Association. If not for the temporary increases passed to adequately compensate Direct Care Workers during the past year, tens of thousands of our state s families would be facing tremendous hardship today. And if today s temporary increase
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