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[ 23 Oct 2012 | 3 Comments ]
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Guest Post By: Ronald Slaby, Ph.D., Senior Scientist & Kim Storey, EdD, Senior Scientist with National Center for the Promotion of Mental Health and Prevention of Youth Violence
SAMHSA’s National Center for the Promotion of Mental Health and Prevention of Youth Violence
 Bullying among young children is not uncommon. When groups of young children, who often differ significantly in physical size, skill level, and family experience, get together regularly, patterns of hurtful behavior often emerge. Children make mean faces, say threatening things, grab objects, push others aside, falsely accuse, or refuse to play …

evolve, Featured, Treatment »

[ 22 Oct 2012 | 13 Comments ]
Location Map

Written By: Andrew Wilson,  Office of Communications, SAMHSA
 Thousands of people visit SAMHSA’s Substance Abuse Treatment Services Locator and the Mental Health Treatment Services Locator every day. These resources provide a vital link between local resources and individuals looking for help. However there is always room for improvement and we want to know your ideas about how to make these tools better.
 To provide your ideas and comments, please visit SAMHSA’s Locator Feedback Forum.  The forum will be open for two weeks, beginning Monday, October 22nd and ending midnight Eastern Time on …

Alcohol, Headline, Prevention, Public Awareness and Support, Substance Use »

[ 22 Oct 2012 | 4 Comments ]
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Written By:  Frances M. Harding, Director, Center for Substance Abuse Prevention
October is National Substance Abuse Prevention Month, a time for all of us to take a closer look at what we—as organizations, communities, families, and individuals—can do to prevent substance abuse.  SAMHSA applauds this observance, which is focused on preventing substance abuse before it starts and recognizing everyone who has been affected by this issue.
We support the observance, because we know that together, individuals and communities can make a difference in preventing and reducing alcohol and drug abuse.  Substance abuse takes …

Bullying, Children, Family-Member, Featured, Headline, Prevention, Public Awareness and Support »

[ 15 Oct 2012 | 5 Comments ]
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Addressing Cyberbullying
Guest Post By: Melyn Huntley, Project Director, Safe Schools/Healthy Students
“People bully me. I want to die.”  The words echoed in the mind of the parent who found the crumbled note in her daughter’s room.  Words of desperation cried out for help.  How do you help her?  How serious is the threat?
Protecting your child is critical.  Today with online communications, a bully can follow their victim home to the aloneness of their bedroom.  If your child should become a victim of bullying, there are several things you should do.

Believe …

Behavioral Health, Children, Featured, Grants, SAMHSA, Trauma, Wellness »

[ 9 Oct 2012 | No Comment ]
Helping children reach their full potential

Written By: Paolo Delvecchio, Director, Center for Mental Health Services
A recent column in the New York Times by David Brooks (“The Psych Approach,” Sept. 27, 2012) provides key insight on how children who experience serious difficulties in youth, such as experiencing trauma, often end up as adults challenged with major obstacles to success such as failure in school, substance abuse, mental illnesses, health risk behavior, chronic disease, and each of these ultimately contribute to early mortality.  Brooks cites the seminal CDC-funded Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) study by Vince Felitti and Robert …