The Bullying Prevention in Indian Country fact sheet from SAMHSA highlights effective school-based anti-bullying prevention strategies and provides information and resources related to the specific bullying prevention needs for American Indian and Alaska Native Communities. Population of focus: American Indian and Alaska Native children and youth Link to resource: http://store.samhsa.gov/product/SMA16-4996 Date: 2016 Organization: Substance Abuse and Mental […]
Archives for February 2017
Alaska Seeds of Change: How an Indoor Farm in Midtown Anchorage Could Help At-Risk Youth
To help disadvantaged teens and young adults land jobs, an Anchorage mental health provider is staking out ground in the high-tech farming fields of hydroponics and vertical gardening. Inside a warehouse off Arctic Boulevard last month, violet light bathed rows of tall white columns. Leafy greens poked out in vertical rows, marked with handwritten labels […]
Documentary ‘Thank You for Your Service’ Advocates for Mental Health Services for Military Veterans
According to one of the unsettling statistics cited in “Thank You for Your Service,” for every American soldier killed in combat, 25 die by suicide. Tom Donahue’s moving work of advocacy journalism draws on a range of experts on the military and its mental health crisis, but it’s the first-person chronicles of the walking wounded […]
Out of Our Mind. Art Therapy and Mindfulness with Refugees, Political Violence and Trauma
Combining art therapy and mindfulness in meeting the needs of refugees and asylum seekers is a novel innovation. This paper presents the integration of these approaches, and draws on examples from a short term art therapy and mindfulness meditation studio group, named Inhabited Studio. Art therapy and mindfulness are demonstrated to complement each other, and […]
EMPODERATE: A Model for Addressing Social Determinants of Health Among LGBTQ Latinx Young Adults
Latino(a) youth and young adult men who have sex with men or who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and/or transgender often face stigma, discrimination, and language barriers that prevent them from accessing prevention and treatment at health care centers, and leaving them vulnerable to high rates of HIV and other health disparities. In this session, […]
Multilevel Prevention Trial of Alcohol Use Among American Indian and White High School Students in the Cherokee Nation
American Indians (AIs) suffer from significant health disparities related to alcohol. Early prevention is critical, because early onset is a risk factor for problematic use into adulthood, and AIs have a higher rate of early onset than do other groups. In addition, rural youths and rural youths who are a racial minority in their community […]