ACA Executive Director Richard Yep, CAE, has been named as one of the 2012 Class of Fellows by ASAE, the Center for Association Leadership. According to ASAE, the Fellows program recognizes individual accomplishments and contributions to ASAE and the association community and is a call to service for the profession. Yep
Month: April 2012
Despite believing that mental illnesses can be more burdensome than other illnesses, a new study reveals that Americans are less willing to pay to avoid mental illnesses when compared with paying for treatment of medical conditions. “Our results showed that participants understood that mental illness clearly has a very negative impact
Statistics from the National Association for Anorexia and Associated Disorders reveal that up to 24 million people suffer from an eating disorder in the United States, and an estimated 10 to 15 percent of those cases are men. Although the number of men with eating disorders is higher now than it’s
A new report from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) found that women on parole are nearly twice as likely to experience mental illness when compared with other women. The study revealed that 49.4 percent of women between the ages of 18 and 49 who had been on probation and 54.2
The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and the Department of Education have teamed up to help stop bullying in schools and communities, They unveiled today what they are calling a “revitalized” Stop Bullying website, stopbullying.gov, which will aim to encourage children, parents and educators in communities across America to take
New numbers from the Department of Veterans Affairs reveal a lack of mental health specialists in hospitals for veterans, with the data showing 20 percent vacancy rates in many of the VA hospitals across the country. As USA Today reports, the VA’s data shows that this shortfall of mental health
With Facebook making it easier for its roughly 845 million users to connect and share pictures and videos with each other, the Center for Eating Disorders at Sheppard Pratt found that a lot of these behaviors are perpetuating the way our society feels about body image and potentially prompting a new
Researchers from the University of Bordeaux, France, found that American teens start experimenting with drugs and alcohol at a much younger and more vulnerable age than previously thought. The study examined the prevalence, age at onset and sociodemographic factors that relate to alcohol and illicit drug use and abuse by American
Experts hope that a new Medicare benefit covering depression screenings will help reduce depression in older Americans. As The Washington Post reports, in October, Medicare began covering annual depression screenings in primary-care settings with no cost sharing for beneficiaries. Experts believe that paying doctors to screen for depression could increase
The transition from a soldier in combat to a veteran at home is a difficult one, and the founders of VeteranCentral hope their website will not only connect veterans from across the country, but also help them find job opportunities and combat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Along with the mental