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Mental Health, Open Government, Public Awareness and Support »

[ 26 Jan 2011 | 9 Comments ]
Ask SAMHSA: Questions about Mental Health and Substance Abuse Treatment Services Parity

Today SAMHSA will launch Ask SAMHSA! If you aren’t sure what this is be sure to check our previous blog post explaining the concept, “Introduction to Ask SAMHSA”. The first topic for Ask SAMHSA is mental health and substance abuse treatment services parity.  Now through February 1st SAMHSA will take your questions about mental health and substance abuse treatment services parity via Facebook, Twitter and the comment section of this blog post. If you are submitting questions over Twitter please use the hashtag #BHQ. Once we gather all the …

Prevention, Public Awareness and Support, Suicide »

[ 25 Jan 2011 | 13 Comments ]
Captain America Promotes the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline

Guest Post By: John Draper, Ph.D., Director of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
When I was a kid, I loved Marvel comic books.  As much as I indulged my imagination in the workings of superheroes back then, I never could have imagined that, decades later, Captain America would be an ally of mine in promoting SAMHSA’s National Suicide Prevention Lifeline!
Someone from Marvel Comics contacted me in December 2010 and told us of their plan to release a special issue of Captain America in January 2011, whereby the Captain would reach out …

Open Government, Prevention, Public Awareness and Support »

[ 25 Jan 2011 | One Comment ]
SAMHSA and the Community Anti Drug Coalition of America Team Up for Prevention!

The Community Anti Drug Coalition of America (CADCA)
CADCA is the nation’s leading community-focused drug abuse prevention organization. It represents more than 5,000 community anti-drug coalitions across the country. Their efforts are focused on training local grassroots groups on how to assess and develop comprehensive plans to address substance abuse-related problems.
CADCA’s Annual National Leadership Forum: February 8 – 10, 2011
Since 1990, CADCA has been hosting their Annual National Leadership Forum. The Leadership Forum is considered the nation’s largest meeting for community prevention leaders, treatment professionals and researchers. SAMHSA has actively supported …

Public Awareness and Support »

[ 19 Jan 2011 | 4 Comments ]
Introduction to Ask SAMHSA!

Have a question about behavioral health; well here is your opportunity to Ask SAMHSA!  The concept behind “Ask SAMHSA” is very similar to the White House’s First Question project. Every month we will be taking questions from you on a specific topic through Facebook and Twitter.  From the questions we receive, we will select a few to respond to on the SAMHSA Blog over video. The purpose behind this project is to give you an opportunity to hear from some of the nation’s experts …

Military Families, Trauma and Justice »

[ 12 Jan 2011 | 2 Comments ]
Behavioral Health: An Issue without Borders

In the spring of 2004, SAMHSA formed the Planning Group on Iraq Mental Health to help Iraq’s Ministry of Health re-establish behavioral health services in Iraq.  SAMHSA sponsored two Action Planning Conferences on Iraq Mental Health in 2005 and 2006 in Amman, Jordan and Cairo, Egypt bringing together mental health professionals from throughout Iraq to jointly plan behavioral health services, where they identified substance abuse, forensics, services for children and adolescents, and on-going trauma, as the country’s behavioral health priorities.
Beginning in 2008, SAMHSA and Iraq have sponsored the Iraq-SAMHSA Initiative …