Showing posts with label Mental Health Services. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mental Health Services. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 1, 2016

Federal Grants And Its Role In Health Care

According to USAspending.gov, a website that promotes transparency, stated that in 2008, the United States government spent $106.464 billion dollars for federal grants. Last 2014, the government spent $15.5 billion, and from this amount education has the largest share of 23.4 percent, while health share followed suit with 22.3 percent.  

Everybody seems to award health grants, the federal government, state and  even city governments award health grants.  Aside from federal grants, there are also big private foundations and organizations that award health grants and health care aids.  

Unfortunately, weakened by the economic crisis, more Americans are unable to hold on to their health insurances and continue with private health care.  There are more people turning to health centers for care. Health care grants can be provided to health centers to provide care and services to those who are continually suffering due to economic crisis.

Aside from health centers, health grants also enable some hospitals and medical professionals to:
• Expand people’s knowledge on certain diseases and its prevention, like HIV/AIDS or diabetes.
• Provide screening and tests to those who cannot afford to obtain necessary medical tests.
• Provide health care to marginalized and minorities.
• Provide health care education and services to culturally diverse populations.
• Build or improve health care facilities.
• Provide assistance health care staff and organizations.

Federal grants also provide support to health education. There are health education projects throughout the United States with the objectives of teaching students about good health and healthy lifestyle. Not only will these project equip the students with the knowledge, but also aims to teach and train school administrators, teachers, and school staff about health, fitness, disease and drug and alcohol abuse prevention.

Health education grants are not only course and seminar oriented, there are also grant programs which focuses on the financial need of the students.  Here are some of the health grants that provides assistance to health course students.

• Advanced Education Nursing Traineeships – this grant is geared towards providing financial assistance to registered nurses who are undergoing advanced training or education programs.

• Health Administration Traineeships and Special Projects Program – this grant is to support students in graduate health programs like health administration or hospital administration.  This programs helps the students to be prepared for employment with public or non-profit institutions. 

Health grants would also include funding research and training programs.  Here are two health grants that focuses on research and health improvement:

• National Research Service Awards- health Services Research Training – this is a project which focuses mainly on health services research.  This grant is actually awarded to provide opportunities for those who are taking predoctoral and postdoctoral training.   The objective of this grant is to provide trainees with the ability to understand research methods and analyze/evaluate health care services and provide means to improve it.

• Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes – this is also a project grant which concentrates on research, information dissemination and actual delivery based on the research.  This aims to evaluate the effectives, quality, cost-effectiveness, health care technology used, health statistics and medical liability.  Research is directed towards low-income groups and minority groups with the intention of better providing health care services for these groups. 

There are many federal health grants that could be taken advantage of, the important thing is that people can take advantage of health care that they need or at least be knowledgeable about taking care of one’s health. 

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Thursday, August 6, 2015

Home Based Business and Work at Home Marketing

Let's face it, if you work at home and operate an online home based business, the number one goal has to be "website promotion". If you don't have a good Internet marketing plan in place, You will fail! Let's talk about ways to get traffic to your website and get the kind of sales you deserve.

Now, over the years, I have tried just about every home business and work at home idea that I could find on the Internet. I have spent at least hundreds maybe even thousands of dollars on scams and schemes. I have spent countless hours, days, weeks, months and years trying these programs. And now, my business partner (the Mrs.) wants us to re-brand and re-market our business.

Why, you ask? Well, I am sure you have heard the term "trial and error". I have always considered these tasks, not as a loss, but as "Priceless Experience". I have been able to weed out the losers and find the winners!

There are several ways to promote your website or online home business that can easily fit into most any budget. Let's take a look at some methods that I have found to be extremely effective.

Traffic Exchanges
Some of these are useless! But if you do your homework, you can find the sites that will have an option to "upgrade" to some type of "Pro" membership, which generally comes with lots of bonus credits each month and many different ways that you can get massive traffic to your website or online home business.

Articles for Content
One of the best ways to get links to go to your site (which will increase your search engine ranking) is to write articles. Whatever your home business is, create the articles utilizing keywords that relate to your website. You can submit these articles to article directories and other webmasters will gradually place them on blogs, ezines and newsletters. They will also be used for content on websites.

Blogs
Once you have your articles written you should create your own blog. Blogs are a very key method to promote your business online. People are always looking for information, and blogs have become some of the most popular websites on the Internet. Heck, you're reading my article on my blog right now (no doubt).

Newspaper Classified Ads
Yes, that's right! Newspaper ads. This is a great way to get traffic to your website. It is a very economical method of advertising. When you do this, make sure and be consistent. Run your ads for several weeks.

PPC Advertising
This is a very good way to get traffic to your website. It is neccesary, especially when your website is new. It will get traffic to your site while you work on climbing up the search engine natural rankings.

Search Engine Optimization
Make sure you find a reputable company to help you with this. Ask them to email you with at least 12 websites that they have optimized and are ranking on the first page of Google and Yahoo! Don't use them if they cannot provide this information! Remember, "the proof is in the pudding".

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CHAMBERS CONSULTING GROUP
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Sunday, April 10, 2011

Cooperative Agreements to Benefit Homeless Individuals

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) and the Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) are accepting applications for fiscal year (FY) 2011 Cooperative Agreements to Benefit Homeless Individuals (CABHI). The purpose of this program is to support the development and/or expansion of local implementation and community infrastructures that integrate treatment and services for mental and substance use disorders, permanent housing, and other critical services for individuals who are chronically homeless. SAMHSA seeks to increase the number of individuals who are chronically homeless placed in permanent housing that supports recovery through comprehensive treatment and recovery services for behavioral health. SAMHSA also seeks to increase capacity for community-based providers to enroll individuals who are chronically homeless in mainstream programs and obtain reimbursement for behavioral health.