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[ 7 Dec 2012 | One Comment ]
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By: Andrew Wilson, SAMHSA Office of Communications
At SAMHSA, our Web improvement efforts center around a “customer first” approach in everything we do. Much of our recent work focused on understanding how information on the agency’s website should be organized and prioritized.
How are we doing this? A variety of tools and techniques are helping us meet this goal, such as directly soliciting feedback from customers via comments and card sorting exercises, using trending social media stories to identify what issues may be of greatest interest to SAMHSA customers, and examining website …

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[ 11 Apr 2012 | No Comment ]
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Written By: Pamela S. Hyde, J.D., SAMHSA Administrator
For the past seven years SAMHSA’s National Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day (Awareness Day) has celebrated the resilience of young people, especially those young people who have mental health challenges. This year we are also honoring the caring adults, the “Heroes of Hope,” who help these young people demonstrate resilience following traumatic experiences. “Heroes of Hope” help young people reach their full potential by maintaining a long-term, stable and positive relationship—the kind of relationship that improves a young person’s ability to find success …

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[ 26 Oct 2011 | 2 Comments ]
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As part of National Bullying Prevention Month, SAMHSA Administrator, Pam Hyde will be participating in What’s Trending #Stopbullying LIVE Townhall meeting on Thursday, October 27th, 6-7 p.m. EST. The Townhall will be a livestream conversation about cyberbullying and what can be done to educate and help communities around the issue.
Administrator Hyde will be participating in the conversation along with representatives from The Trevor Project, The Kind Campaign, Do Something, GLSEN, and MTV’s A Thin Line Campaign, as well as notable celebrities and personalities that will appear in studio and over …