The Five Borough AIDS Mental Health Alliance (FAMHA) CAI offers other programs related to Behavioral Health and HIV/AIDS. After seven outstanding years, the FAMHA project, an educational project under the leadership of Cicatelli Associates Inc. and funded by the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has come to a close.  Since 1998, FAMHA has brought to over 10,500 mental health and substance abuse treatment professionals of New York City quality training and technical assistance in over 200 topic areas related to HIV and mental health.  The project was ground breaking in its objective of raising awareness to the critical connection between physical and mental health needs of those with and at risk for HIV/AIDS.  In addition, in keeping with the mission of CAI to serve minority populations, over 70% of those trained were from communities of color, representing a wide spectrum of professions including psychiatry, social work, nursing, substance abuse counseling and case work. Among the many successes of the project were: Over 500 programs offered to 10,453 trained professionals Six city-wide conferences with themes addressing Co-Occurring Disorders, Culturally Competent Treatment, Alternative and Holistic Interventions and Evidence-Based Interventions A quarterly newsletter with national recognition due to its cutting edge vision and authors addressing issues like the Crystal Methamphetamine crisis, Pediatric AIDS Care, Working with Criminal Justice Populations and HIV Education for Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Populations Individualized technical assistance offered to NYC contracted agencies to better integrate knowledge and skill gained from training. This included clinical team supervision with expertise in psychopharmacology, dual disorders and chronic conditions like addiction and homelessness Symposiums addressing recent treatment models like Contingency Management and factors to be addressed in counseling like Risk Reduction Burnout CAI would like to thank our funder, the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Division of Mental Health for this successful partnership, as well as our conference partner YAI, The National Institute of People with Disabilities.  In addition, we would like to thank our many trainers, writers and consultants that have made this project a success in raising awareness of the interrelationship between quality mental healthcare and the physical care of those with or at risk for HIV/AIDS.  We look forward to future initiatives to continue this important work and encourage you to continue to enjoy the back issues of the FAMHA newsletter below. Quarterly Publications The following can be downloaded and read with Adobe Acrobat Reader. Volume 3 No. 1 - Winter 2001 Volume 3 No. 3 - Fall 2001 Volume 4 No. 2 - Spring 2002 Volume 4 No. 4 - Fall 2002 Volume 5 No. 1 - Spring 2003 Volume 5 No. 2 - Summer 2003 Volume 5 No. 3 - Fall 2003 Volume 6 No. 2 - Winter 2004 Volume 6 No. 3 - Summer 2004 Volume 7 No. 5 - Spring 2004 Volume 6 No. 4 - Fall 2004 Volume 6 No. 5 - Winder 2004 Volume 7 No. 1 - Spring 2005 Download a free copy of the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Please let us know if you wish to be added to the mailing list for this informative newsletter. Cicatelli Associates Incorporated, 505 Eighth Avenue, Suite 1600, New York, NY  10018 phone: (212) 594-7741 / fax: (212) 629-3321 http://www.cicatelli.org If you experience problems browsing this page, please send e-mail to webmaster © Copyright 2004, Cicatelli Associates Inc. site map