The CMH Addiction Recovery Program in rural Bolivar, Missouri, is an outpatient treatment program for people with substance use disorders such as opioid and alcohol use. The program is run through Butterfield Park Medical Center, a Rural Health Clinic (RHC). The program has a family medicine physician, two nurse practitioners, a case manager, a nurse, […]
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Behavioral Health Equity Best Practices for African Americans
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services (SAMHSA), Office of Behavioral Health Equity held the Behavioral Health Equity Best Practices for African Americans event on Monday, February 5 at 1:30-3:00 pm EST. This dynamic webinar was a collaboration with SAMHSA’s Division of Children and School Mental, Mental Health Promotion Branch, Suicide Prevention Branch, and the […]
Advancing Racial Equity in Early Childhood Through Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation
Early childhood is a time of unparalleled developmental promise but also of vulnerability. Nurturing caregiving and enriching environments can pave the way for healthy development of a child’s social and emotional skills, which are the building blocks for their lifelong well-being and learning. All too often, young children who are Black, Latine, and Indigenous receive […]
Strong African American Families-Teen Program
Researchers supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) created a family-centered prevention program to address the lack of interventions focused on decreasing behavioral and conduct problems in rural African American adolescents. Strong African American Families-Teen Program (SAAF-T) targets adolescents (ages 14-16) with the goal of preventing problem behaviors, particularly those most associated with […]
Nurse Navigator and Recovery Specialist Outreach Program
Western Pennsylvania has experienced an epidemic of heroin and opioid abuse in the past 8-10 years. According to 2020 CDC data, Pennsylvania had the eighth-highest drug overdose mortality rate in the U.S. A consortium of the Armstrong-Indiana-Clarion Drug and Alcohol Commission (AICDAC) and nine partners created the Nurse Navigator and Recovery Specialist Outreach Program to […]
Innovative Intervention Addresses Youth Suicide Risk in the Juvenile Justice System
Youth involved with the juvenile justice system die by suicide at a rate two to three times higher than youth in the general population. The risk for suicide is greatest overall for young people on probation, which is the segment of the justice system that allows youth to remain in their community (versus being in […]