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Zero Suicide at Beacon: Mental health parity includes workforce training
Everyone knows what a first aid kit is. We’ve all seen them. We’ve all used them. Convenient boxes containing the basic tools needed to treat medical emergencies: bandages and antibiotic ointments for...
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Stress Awareness: Three Tips to Manage Stress
We all feel stress from time to time … at home, at work, in our everyday experiences. Stress can be short-lived or as a reaction to an external situation, such as missing your morning train, or stress...
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Youth suicide: The conversation starts with our children
Editor’s note: In February 2017, Beacon Health Options released a white paper entitled, “We Need to Talk About Suicide,” which explores the Zero Suicide model as the best-in-class approach to suicide...
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National Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day spotlights the need for...
Thursday, May 4, was National Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day whose theme this year, “Partnering for Help and Hope”, rings particularly true with Beacon Health Options. Highlighting the...
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The many faces of suicide
The phone rings, early on a Sunday morning. I’m excited, as it is a childhood friend whom I’m really looking forward to reconnecting with; only she asks me to let my parents know that her brother...
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Plugging into mental health care: Digital mental health in Colorado
Beacon Health Options is building a lot of bridges to ensure that its members get the quality care they deserve, bridges that span both oceans and mountains. Beacon has partnered with Ieso Digital...
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Sharing a suicide story: Recovery is in the telling
Suicide has had an impact on my life since I was a young child. My grandfather completed suicide when I was just 5 years old. I saw the impact on my family from a child’s eyes, but the true depth of...
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Dealing with LGBT consumers’ anxiety this LGBT Pride Month
Note: The Beacon Lens blog does not always reflect the settled thinking of Beacon but rather represents the voices of our professionals on topical discussions. Perhaps there’s a good reason it took...
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Suicide’s common tale: ‘If only I had spoken with him’
I first met “Ted” when I was barely 18, both of us transients in a city of transients where superficial friendships were the common social norm. Ted was about 10 years older, and although we never...
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From misdiagnosis to stability: A story of struggle, of hope
My story is really about one of my daughters. To protect her privacy as I tell her story, I’ll call her Elizabeth. Elizabeth has had suicidal ideations from since she was about 12 to about 17. At 4...
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And the diagnosis is . . .
It’s first grade and the assignment is to draw Three Blind Mice. All the kids around me had cute pictures it seemed, but mine was a big blob, looking as though someone had thrown up. This is my first...
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Momentum – Beacon’s progress bringing Zero Suicide to life
Sometimes we get so involved working on an initiative, it’s hard to mark our own progress. One year ago at this time, Beacon Health Options was still drafting our suicide prevention white paper. In...
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‘Did you hear about Frank?’
As I showed a hometown friend around my university’s library one November Sunday afternoon in my sophomore year, a classmate saw me and said, “Did you hear about Frank?”. I had last seen my roommate on...
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Beacon’s ‘Triple Aim’: Camaraderie, advocacy, health
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s (IHI) “Triple Aim” has become a household term for many in health care. The phrase refers to improving the American health care system through a three-pronged...
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Teach your children well
The youngest of three, Casey did her own thing, her own way. Popular, athletic and prom-queen pretty, she is quick-witted and outgoing, with a sarcastic sense of humor. When it was time to go to...
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Measurement-based care leads to improved outcomes, resource efficiency
There’s a lot of discussion in health care about evidence-based care, measurement-based care, best-practice care, holistic care. The terms don’t stop there, and neither does their singular importance....
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Remembering Daniel: A story told is a story never forgotten
He was one of the most honest people I had ever met. His face was honest; it betrayed every emotion. His voice was honest. He always told you exactly what he was thinking. His heart was honest. He felt...
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One of the toughest endeavors: Changing health behavior
Beacon Health Options’ mission is to help people live their lives to the fullest potential. It’s a simple, yet extraordinarily complicated, goal because it requires changing behavior at all levels –...
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Retail therapy: The best health care is local
With one in five Americans suffering from a mental illness at any point in their lives, the demand for behavioral health services is loud and clear, but the reality is that many people do not have...
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From misdiagnosis to stability: A story of struggle, of hope
My story is really about one of my daughters. To protect her privacy as I tell her story, I’ll call her Elizabeth. Elizabeth has had suicidal ideations from since she was about 12 to about 17. At 4...
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