2013-14 Healing Hands Topic Selection

Question Title

* 1. Please select FIVE topics most important to your work for the upcoming editorial year of Healing Hands.

Summary of the welfare system, the needs provided for and the gaps unfilled, in relation to poor working and nonworking individuals, outside of the disability arena, with or without dependent children

Opioid dependency treatments

Sleep deprivation: lack of sleep and sleep disorders in all homeless situations and the impacts on physical and mental health

Recovery supports and peer-to-peer supports

Collaborations: community/campus partnerships to build up new service providers, referral capacity, and life coach models

An update on the true impact of the Affordable Care Act

Transitional care from inpatient to outpatient on both the medical and psychiatric sides

Integration of mental health and medical care

Understanding harm reduction; Suboxone; preventing accidental opioid overdose: support, education, and referral

People-first language

Street medicine

Tele-medicine

Shelter health and nutrition, especially for people with high blood pressure and diabetes

Sexual minority homeless youth; cultural competence regarding LGBT

Partnerships with jails and prisons

Success stories

De-escalation

Motivational interviewing

Housing and caring for registered sex offenders

Sexual assault victims

If you have an additional topic you would like to be considered for an upcoming issue of Healing Hands, please enter it here.