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Community Behavioral Healthcare started in the mid-1960s with three fundamental elements: medical leadership; treatment resources geared to the entire community; and program evaluation grounded in the best scientific methodologies. All three elements went underground (or disappeared) under financial and political pressures through the decades. But as the brain sciences progressed, competition for narrowing financial resources grew, and consumer demand for treatments that work became more acute, the three original elements of community behavioral healthcare are reemerging to join with a large experiential base in psychosocial rehabilitation to forge a healthcare system that delivers what was promised so long ago. Key to all of this is the renewed emphasis on Evidence-Based Practices as the tool (and only acceptable path) in achieving recovery for persons with serious mental illness. This section will further that effort through general resources and reporting of research activities at Touchstone innovaré.
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