Lifetime Benefits and Costs of Diverting Substance-Abusing Offenders From State Prison
January 11, 2013Sending substance-abusing state prisoners to community-based treatment programs instead of prisons could reduce crime and save billions of dollars, a new study concludes. The savings would result from immediate reductions in the cost of incarceration, and by subsequent reductions in the number of crimes committed by successfully treated offenders, which leads to fewer re-arrests and […]
Ask Suicide-Screening Questions (ASQ) for the Emergency Department
January 7, 2013A set of four questions that takes emergency department nurses or physicians less than 2 minutes to administer can successfully identify youth at risk for attempting suicide, reported a study by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) researchers that was published in the December 2012 issue of the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. Horowitz, […]
CONTACT We Care: Suicide Hotline Reaching Teens through Texting in New Jersey
CONTACT We Care is the award-winning, volunteer-staffed, caring and crisis hotline serving New Jersey. They are the primary responder within the State of New Jersey to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline – 1-800-SUICIDE. The hotline is one of only a handful in the country to add the text option which offers added anonymity and secrecy. […]
Understanding the Relationship between Substance Use and Self-Injury in American Indian Youth
December 29, 2012A study conducted on the relationship between self-injurious behavior and substance abuse among young people of the White Mountain Apache Tribe found that suicidal behavior peaks among younger members of that tribe. This is similar to the pattern found in other American Indian communities, but unlike that of the general population of the United States, […]
National Workgroup to Address the Needs of Children and Youth Who Are LGBTQI2-S and Their Families
The Child, Adolescent and Family Branch (CAFB), Center for Mental Health Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has initiated the National Workgroup to Address the Needs of Children and Youth Who Are LGBTQI2-S and Their Families to support and enhance services for children and youth who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, […]
Latino Immigrant Parents: Accessing Mental Health Services for their Adolescents
December 21, 2012This report focuses on immigrant Latino parents’ usage of general health and mental health services for their adolescents. The adolescents of these Latino immigrant parents were between the ages of 12 and 19 and were enrolled in a high school or middle school in North Carolina between Fall 2005 and Spring 2006. The authors first […]
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