Written By: Andrew Wilson, Office of Communications, SAMHSA
Several weeks ago, we asked for help in thinking through how SAMHSA’s website could be better organized. Using an online exercise (called a card sort), participants organized key behavioral health topics into pre-defined categories. The response to our request for participation was tremendous with over 1000 individuals participating over the course of one week.  Participants included:

847 Behavioral Health Professionals
193 Personal/ General Users
70 SAMHSA staff

Drilling Deeper
The next step in this process is to ask for your help with a different exercise – a “reverse …

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 …

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 …

On Tuesday, April 17, 2012, the Surgeon General of the United States Regina M. Benjamin, M.D., M.B.A., joined SAMHSA for a National Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day (Awareness Day) Twitter chat. SAMHSA grantees, Awareness Day collaborating organizations, and other supporters joined the discussion to better understand issues related to trauma and resilience in children and youth and learn about Awareness Day 2012 activities.
Click here for highlights from the chat.
Want to continue the discussion? Use #HeroesofHope on Twitter to join the conversation about Awareness Day and trauma and resilience in children …

Written By: Rashetta Fairnot, Public Health Advisor, Consumer Affairs, Center for Substance Abuse Treatment
Do you work with recovery-oriented support services or are you interested in learning more about SAMHSA’s Recovery Support Strategic Initiative (RSSI) and the Bringing Recovery Supports to Scale Technical Assistance Center Strategy (BRSS TACS) project? Join Recovery Month on May 30th from 1 – 2 p.m. EDT to share insights and experience for the Twitter conversation—“Partnerships and Collaboration: Recovery Services, Systems, and Support.”
RSSI, one of SAMHSA’s Eight Strategic Initiatives to reduce the impact of mental and substance …