Access: The TAC Blog

Leading experts report from the intersection of affordable housing, health care, and human services policy.

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March 24, 2022
Vicarious Trauma and Staff Retention: A Behavioral Health Workforce Crisis
Blog Post | March 2022
Self-care is not enough; the time is now to address systemic gaps in support for behavioral health workers who experience vicarious trauma, leading to burnout and high turnover.
June 12, 2018
Using Value-Based Payment to Encourage Integrated Substance Use Disorder Care — The First Steps
Mental Health & Substance Use | Blog Post | June 2018
TAC and the Center for Health Care Strategies set out to learn how states and health plans are beginning move toward value-based payment as a way to encourage substance use disorder treatment in primary care.
November 28, 2017
Putting Psychiatric Hospitalization into Context
Mental Health & Substance Use | Blog Post | November 2017
Stable and affordable housing combined with voluntary services can contribute to improved outcomes for people with mental illness, while reducing incarceration and homelessness.
February 8, 2017
Can States Take On the Fiscal Responsibility that Federal Policymakers Are About to Hand Them?
Affordable Housing | Medicaid | Blog Post | February 2017
Both my current work with state systems across the U.S. and my experience as a former commissioner of behavioral health show me that states are in no position to absorb a major transfer of fiscal responsibility from federal policymakers.