The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA) Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies (CAPT) has released Tools from the CAPT: Increasing Cultural Competence to Reduce Behavioral Health Disparities. This collection of hands-on tools and worksheets will help suicide prevention practitioners better understand and address the relationship between cultural competence and reducing behavioral […]
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Compartiendo Esperanza: Speaking with Latinos about Mental Health
Lack of information and misconceptions surrounding mental health issues prevent many members of the Latino community from getting the help and support they need. Compartiendo Esperanza is a bilingual 90-minute presentation that can help increase mental health awareness in Latino communities by addressing a number of important topics: The signs and symptoms of anxiety disorders, […]
Metrics and Quality Measures for Behavioral Health Clinics: Technical Specifications and Resource Manual
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has issued a new set of quality measures – in the form of a resource manual, technical specifications and data reporting templates – all designed to help states and behavioral health clinics (BHCs) better assess and document their performance and effectiveness in providing treatment to people […]
Culturally Competent Mental Health Practice with Hispanic Clients: Video Training Modules
The Department of Social Work at The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) invites you view training sessions on cultural competency and resilience in social work practice with Hispanics. Faculty members Drs. Mark Lusk and Silvia Chavez, in conjunction with the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health, have developed coursework and on-line training materials to […]
Surveillance Success Stories: Fort Peck Indian Reservation
Following a coordinated emergency response to a suicide cluster in 2010, tribal leaders began collecting data from multiple sources to describe detailed circumstances of suicide ideation, attempts and deaths. This allowed them to identify the role of substance abuse in suicide attempts and initiate family education for family members of previously suicidal individuals when they […]
Integration Playbook: A Guide to Integrating Behavioral Health in Primary Care Settings
AHRQ’s Academy for Integrating Behavioral Health and Primary Care developed the Integration Playbook as a guide to integrating behavioral health in primary care and other ambulatory care settings. Integrated primary care (or integrated ambulatory care) is an emerging approach for improving health care delivery in order to achieve better patient health outcomes. Integrated primary care […]