Suicide Safe, SAMHSA’s new suicide prevention app for mobile devices and optimized for tablets, helps providers integrate suicide prevention strategies into their practice and address suicide risk among their patients. Suicide Safe is a free app based on SAMHSA’s Suicide Assessment Five-Step Evaluation and Triage (SAFE-T) card. SAMHSA’s Suicide Safe helps providers: Learn how to […]
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Improving Access to Coverage for Children with Special Health Care Needs in the Face of Health Inequities
This brief presents findings from interviews with family leadership organization staff in Colorado, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, and Vermont about health insurance coverage and health care financing and the experiences of children with special health care needs (CSHCN), their families, and their communities. Topics include coverage and financing barriers experienced by families raising CSHCN […]
State of Black America – Save Our Cities: Education, Jobs + Justice
The 2015 State of Black America e-book, Save Our Cities: Educations, Jobs + Justice, includes full data sets and analysis for the 2015 National Equality Index™; full 70-city list of Black–White and Hispanic–White Metropolitan Area Equality Index rankings for unemployment and income; 50-State Education Equality Index and full rankings based on Black–White and Hispanic–White achievement […]
Family Support, Family Stress, and Suicidal Ideation in a Combat-Exposed Sample of Veterans
Family support during deployment is an important protective factor against post-deployment suicidal ideation according to a new study. Suicidal ideation includes thoughts that can range from fleeting consideration of suicide to the development of a specific plan for killing oneself. Research on suicidal ideation in veterans who served in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) in […]
Circle of Life Multimedia Program: Teaching Native Youth Healthy Choices
HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted infections and hepatitis affect American Indian and Alaska Native communities in disproportionate numbers. Circle of Life, based on the medicine wheel, is a unique interactive middle school curriculum to help Native youth model healthy choices and prevent diseases. The program infuses a multimedia rich format with various skill-building games and activities about […]
Domestic and International Adoption: Strategies to Improve Behavioral Health Outcomes for Youth and Their Families
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has released a report titled Domestic and International Adoption: Strategies to Improve Behavioral Health Outcomes for Youth and Their Families. The report summarizes the findings of a two-day interagency meeting hosted by SAMHSA in August 2012 to discuss the science, policy, and practice related to the behavioral […]