2017 June

Yoga N Da Hood – Teaching People In Under Served Communities the Art of Self-Healing and Self Love through Yoga and Mindfulness

June 28, 2017

When Ebony Smith began practicing yoga, she couldn’t help but feel like an outsider. “There was something about it that I absolutely loved,” she said. “But I didn’t like going to practice, because nobody ever looked like me and I just always kind of felt awkward.” Smith, 35, picked up...
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Tagged traditional healing
Hope Squad: School-Based Peer Advocate Program To Prevent Suicide

June 23, 2017

Hope Squad® is a school-based peer support program that empowers selected students to take action to improve the school environment. Hope Squad members are trained to recognize if they or their peers are at risk for suicide as well as how to encourage peers to seek help from a trusted...
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Indicators of Mental Health Problems Reported by Prisoners and Jail Inmates, 2011-12

June 23, 2017

Only one-third of inmates in the U.S. with mental-health problems receive treatment, according to a new Department of Justice report released Thursday. In federal prisons, about half of those who need treatment get it, DOJ found. Inmates are five times as likely to have a mental-health problem than the general...
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Familias Unidas: Parent-Centered Prevention of Risky Behaviors Among Hispanic Youth

June 21, 2017

Familias Unidas™ Preventive Intervention is a multilevel family-based intervention designed to prevent problem behaviors in Hispanic adolescents. The program engages Hispanic immigrant parents in an empowerment process in which they first build a strong parent-support network and then use the network to increase knowledge of culturally relevant parenting, strengthen parenting...
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After a Suicide: A Toolkit for Schools

June 21, 2017

This toolkit is designed to assist schools in the aftermath of a suicide (or other death) in the school community. Developed by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) and the Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC), in consultation with a diverse group of national experts, including school-based personnel, clinicians, researchers,...
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Tagged online toolkit
EMPATHY: Program Designed To Promote Mental Health Skills in Youth

June 21, 2017

A University of Alberta pilot program designed to promote mental health skills in youth significantly lessened cases of depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts. The EMPATHY (Empowering a Multimodal Pathway Towards Health Youth) program, which ran in Red Deer public schools from 2013 to 2015, was offered to more than 6,000...
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Delivery of Brief Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Medically Ill Patients in Primary Care: A Pragmatic Randomized Clinical Trial

June 21, 2017

It is often thought that primary care clinics are only able to help with physical health challenges, but a new study shows that this may not be the case. In the study, published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and the Michael E....
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Tagged integrated health care
Association Between Gender Minority Status and Self-Reported Physical and Mental Health in the United States

June 1, 2017

People who identify as transgender or gender nonconforming may have higher than average rates of poor or fair health, a new study suggests. “There is little research on this population, because people haven’t been asking them to identify themselves,” said lead author Dr. Carl Streed Jr., of Brigham and Women’s...
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Yoga N Da Hood – Teaching People In Under Served Communities the Art of Self-Healing and Self Love through Yoga and Mindfulness

Hope Squad: School-Based Peer Advocate Program To Prevent Suicide

Indicators of Mental Health Problems Reported by Prisoners and Jail Inmates, 2011-12

Familias Unidas: Parent-Centered Prevention of Risky Behaviors Among Hispanic Youth

After a Suicide: A Toolkit for Schools

EMPATHY: Program Designed To Promote Mental Health Skills in Youth

Delivery of Brief Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Medically Ill Patients in Primary Care: A Pragmatic Randomized Clinical Trial

Association Between Gender Minority Status and Self-Reported Physical and Mental Health in the United States

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