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[ 31 Aug 2012 | No Comment ]
Picture of budding plant to signify the website improvement Project Evolve

Cross-posted from HHS Digital Strategy Blog: 
Written By: Andrew Wilson,  Office of Communications, SAMHSA
Public participation and collaboration are central to making the Digital Strategy work. At the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), they are central to our work to improve the organization and presentation of SAMHSA’s website.
As part of our initial efforts, SAMHSA has been using an online exercise (cardsorting) that allows anyone interested to provide input on how to better organize and categorize the information on the website. In just one week, more than a thousand people provided direct, concrete …

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[ 13 Aug 2012 | No Comment ]
Picture of budding plant to signify the website improvement Project Evolve

Written By: Andrew Wilson, Office of Communications, SAMHSA
The SAMHSA team supporting Project Evolve has been working hard over the past few months to make improvements to the website. Many of these improvements are still “behind-the-scenes,” but enhancements are underway to both the technical infrastructure underpinning the site and to how the information is organized and presented.
Last fall, the inaugural Project Evolve blog post invited readers to help us evaluate a new way to organize information on the website. Instead of structuring the site around SAMHSA’s organizational layout, we began moving …

Family-Member, Featured, Headline, Military Families, Open Government, Public Awareness and Support, Recovery Support »

[ 18 Jul 2012 | No Comment ]
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Written By: Rashetta Fairnot, Public Health Advisor, Center for Substance Abuse Treatment
On Monday, July 9, we hosted a Recovery Month Twitter chat about “Access to Behavioral Health Care for Military Service Members, Veterans, and Their Families.” I was joined by our co-hosts: retired Navy Reserve Captain Kathryn Power, SAMHSA’s Strategic Initiative Lead for Military Families and Regional Administrator from Region 1, and MSG Stephanie Weaver, National Guard Liaison to SAMHSA.  The conversation focused on military families and especially those service members recently returning home and their navigation of the behavioral health system. …

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[ 29 Jun 2012 | No Comment ]
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Written By: Rashetta Fairnot, Public Health Advisor, Consumer Affairs, CSAT
As Independence Day approaches, our nation reflects on its freedom and we look to honor the military service members and veterans who keep us safe. Since September 11, 2001, more than 2.3 million American military personnel have been deployed to Iraq, Afghanistan, or both.  Although the vast majority of returning service members successfully transition back home, 18.5 percent of returning service members do meet criteria for either post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or depression. Unless treated, these types of behavioral health issues have …

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[ 14 Jun 2012 | No Comment ]
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Written By: Rashetta Fairnot, Public Health Advisor, Center for Substance Abuse Treatment
On Wednesday, May 30, we hosted the May Recovery Month Twitter chat on the topic of “Partnerships and Collaboration: Recovery Services, Systems, and Support.” I was joined by co-hosts Paolo Del Vecchio, Acting Director from the Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) and Cathy Nugent, Senior Public Health Analyst, CMHS for a robust conversation centered on recovery-oriented services and support for people in or seeking recovery. The chat also addressed how people in recovery and their families can work …