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Introducing Sarah Norman, BrainFutures' New Executive Director

BrainFutures is pleased to introduce our new Executive Director, Sarah Norman, who comes to us with deep experience in health policy, healthcare delivery systems, multistakeholder coalitions, and organizational leadership. Sarah brings more than two decades of strategic operations, policy and leadership experience in the healthcare field. As Chief of Communi...

New NORC/BrainFutures Study Finds Psychedelics in Healthcare Practitioner Training is Growing

New NORC/BrainFutures Study Finds Psychedelics in Healthcare Practitioner Training is Growing Research gauged level of clinician workforce preparedness and education in anticipation of possible FDA approval for psychedelic therapies CHICAGO and LUTHERVILLE, MD – December 11, 2024 – In a comprehensive survey of academic leaders from counseling, social work...

Highlights from April 2024

Congressional Task Force Briefing On April 9th, BrainFutures hosted a comprehensive briefing on medical psychedelic-assisted therapy for congressional staffers in partnership with the Bipartisan Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Task Force. Our discussion spanned a wide range of topics including the science and history behind psychedelics, the model of ...

Letter from BrainFutures’ Interim Executive Director: Mental Health Parity, Policy, and PAT Training

Today, BrainFutures is proud to announce the release of our latest issue brief, A Path Toward Parity: Ensuring Equitable Access to Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy. This paper helps stakeholders understand how the 2008 Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) can be used as a key lever to ensure widespread insurance coverage for psychedelic-assisted the...

Rapid-Acting Mental Health Treatment Summit Aims to Lead the Conversation on What’s Next in Mental Health

November 1, 2023 – BrainFutures, a national nonprofit dedicated to advancing practical applications of new scientific understanding of the brain, will co-host the upcoming Rapid-Acting Mental Health Treatment 2024 (“RAMHT 2024”) an in-person event on January 7th, 2024 in San Francisco. RAMHT 2024 will be jointly led by Dual-boarded Child and Adult Psych...

How COVID-19 Stress Compromises Children’s Brains

By Jude O’Brien It is a strange new world, and we are all doing the best we can to manage and minimize COVID-19. Top of the list: masks and social distancing. For most of us, these steps, and larger ones like self-quarantining and working and learning from home, all can understandably amplify fear and stress. A recent OpEd in the Hechinger Report by Goldie ...

October 10 is World Mental Health Day

In observance of World Mental Health Day on October 10, the BrainFutures team is excited to participate in this year’s JWB Resiliency 5K & 1 Mile Family Walk/Run on October 14. World Mental Health Day was launched by the World Health Organization to raise awareness of mental health issues around the world and mobilize efforts in support of mental hea...