2025 Horizon Services Impact Report
Supporting Children Struggling with Suicidal Ideation
Article Summary A 2025 study titled Childhood Suicide Risk in the Emergency Department, published in JAMA Network, found that children aged 8 to 12 who attempted suicide were 10% more likely to return to the ER within a year for another attempt. The study shows that for some children, even after a frightening crisis, suicide […]
Horizon Treatment Services Embraces Innovative Treatment Approaches
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy was developed in 1987 (Shapiro, 2018). Dr. Francine Shapiro developed the EMDR technique out of her own trauma and mental health crisis. Shapiro found that during a walk, her eye movements seemed to desensitize her own emotions around distressing memories. This discovery has led to a revolution, with […]
Doing Justice with Smoking Cessation
Doing Justice with Smoking Cessation “People with substance use disorder (SUD) smoke cigarettes at a rate more than twice that of the general population.” – (Saloner et al., 2023) Anna Phillips, Chief Program Officer Cigarette smoking has decreased by 9% over the last decade (Saloner et al, 2023). One group of consumers, however, has not been […]