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Behavioral Health, Featured, Headline, Health Disparities, Public Awareness and Support, Trauma »

[ 10 Dec 2012 | 9 Comments ]
Trauma

Increasingly, multiple federal agencies representing various service sectors have recognized the impact of trauma on the children, adults, and families they serve.  In 2011, in its strategic action plan, SAMHSA designated Trauma as one of its key initiatives.  This led SAMHSA to revisit its trauma-related concepts and programming and their applicability not only to behavioral health but to other related fields.
In May 2012, after an extensive literature and policy review, SAMHSA convened a group of national experts to assist in the development of a working definition of trauma and trauma-informed …

evolve, Featured, Headline, Outreach, Public Awareness and Support »

[ 7 Dec 2012 | One Comment ]
Web link

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 …

Featured, Headline, Public Awareness and Support, Recovery Support, Uncategorized, Workforce »

[ 28 Nov 2012 | 4 Comments ]
Recovery Sign

A call for the equal treatment of all illnesses and conversation on the path to recovery
By Susan Walker and Chris Marshall
There’s a statue at the entrance to the Italian embassy’s auditorium.  I say statue, but as tastefully pointed out by an elegant plaque, it is in fact a “Marble Fragment of Statue, Syracuse, 3rd Century B.C.”  Headless and heartless, it’s really only a pair of legs, but it still pulls off a certain elegant refinement (this is the Italian embassy after all!).
It’s a fitting introduction to the recent Global Health …

Alcohol, Data, Outcomes, and Quality, Featured, Headline, Public Awareness and Support, SAMHSA »

[ 23 Nov 2012 | No Comment ]
Data Files and Alcohol

How to get more out of the National Survey on Drug Use and Health
By Art Hughes and Rachel Lipari
A recently released NSDUH Report on state-level underage alcohol use and self-purchase of alcohol showed that rates varied somewhat from state to state.
Information on other state-level substance use and mental health measures can be found here.
 Often the first question we get after the release of state-level results is “So why are we seeing differences between states?” or “Can NSDUH help me understand underage drinking in my state?”
These are good questions that can …

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

[ 23 Oct 2012 | 3 Comments ]
Picture of the stopbullying.gov URL

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 …