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Vantage Policy Watch Week of October 5, 2025
Focus: Substance Use and Mental Health Impacts This week begins Mental Illness Awareness Week, observed from October 5 to 11, 2025. The...
Vantage Policy Watch Week of September 29, 2025
Focus: Substance Use & Mental Health Impacts What’s Happening This Week Shutdown Risks Loom Congress remains deadlocked, and without a...
Vantage Policy Watch of September 21, 2025
Issues to Watch , State & Local Responses & Events... By Jamelia Hand MHS CADC CODP I As federal executive policy is relatively quiet...
Vantage Policy Watch Week of September 15, 2025
Behavioral Health & Substance Use Policy at a Turning Point By Jamelia Hand MHS CADC CODP I What’s at Stake This week marks a critical...
Vantage Policy Watch Week of September 8, 2025
Confidentiality, Compliance, and Continuity: Federal Shifts Shaping Behavioral Health by Vantage Clinical Consulting LLC What happened...
Vantage Policy Watch Week of August 25, 2025
Tracking the Ripple Effects of Policy on Behavioral Health, SUD, and Systems of Care by Vantage Clinical Consulting LLC CMS Expands...
Jobs Report 2025: What It Means for Mental Health and Substance Use Roles
By Jamelia Hand MHS CADC CODP I "When the clinic launched its new outpatient recovery program, Jamie (a former counselor turned program...
Vantage Policy Watch Week of August 18, 2025
Substance Use, Mental Health, and Corrections By: Jamelia Hand MHS CADC CODP I Across the country, critical shifts are unfolding in...
Vantage Policy Watch Week of August 4, 2025
Federal Shifts in Harm Reduction Policy: Narrowed Definitions, New Guardrails By: Jamelia Hand MHS CADC CODP I Context & Developments On...
The Hidden Barrier to ED-Initiated Buprenorphine: It’s Not Protocol, It’s Culture
By Jamelia Hand MHS CADC CODP I Let’s imagine a patient named Maria arrives at the local ED in severe opioid withdrawal. She’s trembling,...
Vantage Policy Watch Week of July 21, 2025
Federal Layoffs at HHS Begin: Ripple Effects for Mental Health and Substance Use Care By Jamelia Hand MHS CADC CODP I 📍Context & Timing...
Vantage Policy Watch: Week of July 14, 2025
Deepening Federal Restructuring & SAMHSA Funding Turmoil This week, the ongoing HHS reorganization under Executive Order 14210 and the...
Vantage Policy Watch: Week of July 7, 2025
Welcome to the first edition of “Vantage Policy Watch” , your weekly update on executive-level decisions and federal actions shaping the...
WISeR Isn’t Here Yet, But Behavioral Health Providers Can’t Wait
What CMS’s New AI-Driven Prior Authorization Model Could Mean for Mental Health & SUD Treatment By Jamelia Hand MHS CADC CODP I CMS’s...
Care Reimagined: Illinois Launches NEW Unified Substance Use & Behavioral Health Division
By Jamelia Hand MHS CADC CODP I This week, Illinois steps forward by elevating Mental Health and Substance Use Services together. As...
What Behavioral Health Can Learn from the Airline Industry
By Jamelia Hand MHS CADC CODP I “We can’t always predict when relapse will happen. But like pilots preparing for turbulence, we can...
Turning Referrals Into Results
By Jamelia Hand MHS CADC CODP I Stop Just Making Referrals… Why your referral process might be harming more than helping and what to do...
From Conversation to Community: Advocacy in Action for Mental Health and SUD Treatment Providers
By Jamelia Hand MHS CADC CODP I Dr. F was ready. She had hung up her credentials, the proper business licenses, the electronic health...
More Than Medication: Partnering for Better Opioid Treatment in Primary Care
By Jamelia Hand MHS CADC CODP I In 2004, I was leading a medical stabilization program at a hospital. Our job was to admit patients...
Supportive Autonomy: The Future of Substance Use Treatment
By: Jamelia Hand MHS CADC CODP I When I was an addiction counselor, I did something that might seem unusual. I started discharge planning...
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