How Yoga is Serving Low-Income People Living with Mental Illnesses and Addiction
January 12, 2013In 2008 Jenna Ritter founded DHARA, a non-profit organization for low-income adults living with various emotional and mental health issues. The focus of her teaching is supporting students to integrate effective and appropriate self-healing techniques adapted from ancient yoga lifestyle systems into their daily lives. Six Weeks to Wellness is a program developed in collaboration […]
E-Learning Course: Safety at Home – Intimate Partner Violence, Military Personnel, and Veterans
January 11, 2013The Battered Women’s Justice Project has released four modules of the e-learning course, Safety at Home-Intimate Partner Violence, Military Personnel, and Veterans. The course is designed for advocates (military and civilian) who provide services to military-related families experiencing intimate partner violence. The course will also be helpful for other practitioners who are working with these […]
Lifetime Benefits and Costs of Diverting Substance-Abusing Offenders From State Prison
Sending 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, […]
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