SAMHSA’s Training Tool Box for Addressing the Gender-Specific Service Needs of Women with Substance Use Disorders serves as a launching board that trainers/presenters can use to develop informative, evidence-based trainings on serving women with substance use disorders (SUDs). This Tool Box enables clinical supervisors, program directors, and advocates to customize workforce learning for providers, clinicians, […]
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The Friendship Bench Project: How ‘Grandmothers’ Help Others Fight Depression and Anxiety
Mental Health America, an advocacy group, paints a bleak picture of psychological care in the United States. Almost 20 percent of Americans suffer from a mental illness, according to data from 2016, but more than half of these individuals never receive help. Barriers such as limited access to mental health care, the cost of treatment and a […]
Mi Hermana’s Keeper: A Toolkit of Promising Practices for Juvenile Justice Prevention Programs Supporting Latina Youth
This toolkit includes a literature review of why system-involved Latina youth need support, nine program- and system-level recommendations, an action checklist, and feedback from Latina youth, caregivers, and stakeholders. This resource was developed based on a study of the Family Keys Program, an Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Best Practice Model that Southwest […]
Yoga N Da Hood – Teaching People In Under Served Communities the Art of Self-Healing and Self Love through Yoga and Mindfulness
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 yoga about seven years ago […]
Hope Squad: School-Based Peer Advocate Program To Prevent Suicide
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 adult. Research indicates that most […]
Familias Unidas: Parent-Centered Prevention of Risky Behaviors Among Hispanic Youth
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 skills, and then apply these […]