DMA Health Strategies, Inc. (DMA) is a member-owned cooperative, certified as a woman-owned business in Massachusetts. Our work includes strategic planning, program development, policy analysis, capacity building, and performance improvement and evaluation. We support public and private agencies in providing compassionate and equitable mental health, substance use and addiction, primary care, and child welfare services and supports.
We help our clients identify and implement innovative forms of service delivery and recovery supports aimed at improving access, eliminating service gaps, increasing quality, and controlling costs. DMA works to address health inequities and social determinants, striving to achieve behavioral health through improved service integration and support and expansion of the behavioral health workforce.
DMA worked with the City of Boston Mayor's Office of Recovery Services and their partners at Massachusetts General Hospital…
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DMA assisted Health New England to develop a strategy for managing their behavioral health benefits. The DMA team facilitated a planning meeting with senior leadership to review market trends…
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DMA conducted a needs assessment of addiction treatment and recovery services in Boston for the then newly-formed Mayor's Office of Recovery Services in collaboration…
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DMA Health Strategies, Inc. (DMA) is pleased to announce that we are now officially a member-owned cooperative. We welcome Wendy Holt into the CEO role. After over 25 years at the firm, her expertise and guidance will provide for a seamless transition. We also say farewell to Richard H. Dougherty as President and CEO, whose vision and leadership guided the firm from inception through…
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Using existing national and California data, Wendy Holt and Talia Hahn provide an overview of the prevalence of substance use disorders, their health and social impacts, and the state’s SUD treatment resources in the chart book, Substance Use in California: A Look at Addiction and Treatment (2018…
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DMA is pleased to have supported the City of Boston Mayor's Office of Recovery Services to conduct and write the recently released Youth Substance Use Prevention Strategic Plan. This data driven plan outlines a set of recommendations including: improving cross-sector…
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