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Suicide is the second leading cause of death in the U.S. among people ages 10-24 years old and has disproportionately increased Latinx and Hispanic adolescents and young adults, who have elevated rates of suicidal behaviors. This 1.5 hour online session provides information about identifying suicide-related risk in Latinx and Hispanic youth and review evidence-based practices to screen for risk across various settings. • Recognize trends in suicide, suicidal thoughts, and behaviors in Hispanic/Latinx adolescents and young adults in the U.S. • Identify risk and protective factors associated with suicidal thoughts and behaviors • Highlight culture-specific risk and protector factors associated with suicide-related risk • Understand how some suicide prevention programs have integrated culture-specific experiences into their strategies • Resources to screen for suicide-related risk in youth Download Slides Here

This poster, created with Native students in mind, can be used in schools to help promote best practices for reducing the spread of COVID-19. It can be printed on 11x17 paper or smaller.

This document describes the American Indian and Alaska Native Leadership Academy, with emphasis on how the 2019-2020 cohort has been adapted due to COVID-19, as well as how the new 2020-2021 cohort is beginning.

This brochure gives an overview of the new Health Promotion program being developed by the Native Center for Behavioral Health. It is an educational program for rural and urban Native American communities featuring 40 educational modules focused on prevention, mental health, and addiction issues in Native communities. The program aims to strengthen knowledge and competencies among behavioral health workers in the most vulnerable communities.

Rituals are actions done in purposeful ways that symbolize something much more than the acts themselves. Every culture has rituals that provide purpose and meaning to experiences. Rituals are made up of actions that represent ideas, thoughts, myths, or beliefs about something specific. They give purpose to action and always serve to connect us to something else, generally something greater than ourselves. In difficult times, rituals provide a certain order to an existence that otherwise might be full of confusion and chaos. Given the current pandemic, loss and grief have taken a front seat. A sense of loss permeates in many of our lives, and for many clients, this may be difficult to name. Furthermore, the inability to perform rituals in our habitual ways can be distressful for many. The current webinar will discuss the experience of loss and grief for Latinos during the current pandemic: including physical and symbolic losses. The presenters will discuss Latinos' values and rituals as they relate to the current pandemic. The importance of the therapeutic relationship will be discussed as well as approaches and strategies that promote new rituals, new meanings, and transformative experience. Download slides here

This factsheet is based on the webinar presented by Luis Zayas, PhD. In the past 30 years, young Latinas have reported higher rates of suicide attempts when compared to other groups. The risk of suicide in the 12 months after an index attempt is about 1.6% and about 3.9% after 5 years highlighting the importance of addressing suicidal behaviors.  Some of the reasons related to suicide attempts in youth include cognitive and emotional vulnerabilities, poor coping strategies, lack of social connection, and acquired capability. Clinicians working Latino populations should consider acculturation, trauma experiences, cultural values and culturally responsive models at the moment of diagnosing and treating Latino communities with a history of suicide attempts.

Click here to download the handouts of the presentation on 9/10/2020 for the session for Tribal Schools as they Reopen Amidst COVID-19 #4: Native Youth Telehealth Initiative.

Click here to view the recording for the session for Tribal Schools as they Reopen Amidst COVID-19 #4 on 9/10/2020.

This one and half-hour online session discusses the Culturally Modified-Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CM-TFT). CM-TFT is an Evidence-Based Therapy proven to be effective for Hispanic and Latino children and adolescents that experienced traumatic events. The adaptations (CM-TFT) include culture-specific topics like spirituality, gender roles, family, personalism, respect, among other cultural elements. The therapy's main goals are to identify trauma experiences, provide psychoeducation, increase affect regulation, identify cultural considerations, process adverse experiences in a safe environment, in-vivo exposure, and enhance safety. During this presentation, participants will recognize TF-CBT components using a case study of a 6-year-old girl from El Salvador exposed to domestic violence. Participants will learn how to include cultural adaptations while providing therapy to Latino clients and their families. Finally, participants will familiarize themselves with resources and recommendations on TF-CBT for Latinos children and youth. Download Slides Here

This is a list of resources that has been compiled (and continues to be updated) during the National American Indian and Alaska Native MHTTC's ongoing series: Special Weekly Series for Tribal Schools as they Reopen Amidst COVID-19. This guide is tailored for providers and school personnel who are Native and/or are working with American Indian and Alaska Native students. Topics include: general resources, telehealth, COVID-19, health, and other. To download this resource guide, please use the "DOWNLOAD" button located above.

Click here to view the recording for the session that took place on September 3rd, 2020 on Tribal Schools as they Reopen Amidst COVID 19 Part 3.

Click here to view the handouts for the session on September 3rd, 2020 for the K-12 Session for Tribal Schools as they Reopen Amidst COVID 19 #3. 

This flyer gives information on our weekly series for helping schools serving Native American and Alaska Native schools during COVID.

Click here to view the second session on Tribal School Support for Reopening Amidst the COVID 19 Pandemic!

El impacto de la pandemia del COVID-19 ha iluminado las inequidades existentes con la carga de la crisis recayendo en las personas representando minorías raciales y étnicas y otros grupos marginalizados. Partiendo de un encuadre que integra la justicia social y las prácticas informadas en la diversidad y el trauma, esta charla virtual ofrecerá una visión general sobre el impacto de la intersección de las inequidades estructurales y la pandemia en los niños de cero a cinco años en familias Latinoamericanas. Se abordará la violencia de pareja en este contexto y sus implicaciones desde la perspectiva del niño pequeño, el cuidador / padre y las relaciones de apego. La presentación está disponible AQUÍ. El documento de FAQ está disponible AQUÍ. Speakers: Carmen Rosa Noroña, LICSW, MSW, MS. Ed., IECMH-E® (Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Mentor-Clinical), is originally from Ecuador. For over 25 years, she has provided clinical services to young children and their families in a variety of settings. She currently is the Child Trauma Clinical Services and Training Lead at Child Witness to Violence Project and the Associate Director of the Boston Site Early Trauma Treatment Network at Boston Medical Center, an NCTSN Category II center. She is a Child-Parent Psychotherapy National Trainer, an expert faculty of the Diagnostic Classification of Mental Health and Developmental Disorders of Infancy and Early Childhood Training (DC: 0-5) and one of the developers of the Harris Professional Development Network Diversity Informed Tenets for Work with Infants Children and Families Initiative and of the Boston Medical Center Family Preparedness Plan for Immigrant Families. She is a former co-chair of the Culture Consortium of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network, and has adapted and translated materials for Spanish-speaking families affected by trauma. Carmen Rosa has also contributed to the literature in infant and early childhood mental health, diversity and immigration. Wanda Vargas, Ph.D., is currently the Senior Psychologist at New York Presbyterian’s Family PEACE Trauma Treatment Center, an NCTSN Category III center, dedicates herself to improving the safety and well-being of underserved young children and caregivers who have been exposed to trauma. Dr. Vargas immigrated to the United States from the Dominican Republic at the young age of 3, and later earned a Ph.D. in the combined Clinical and School Psychology program at Hofstra University where she developed an interest in maternal stress and mother-child dyads. Through her leadership at Family PEACE, Dr. Vargas has been working on creating a trauma-informed approach to identifying at-risk young children and developing programming that is client-centered and culturally attuned to the needs of the community, in the hopes of fulfilling a dream of one day being able to break the intergenerational transmission of trauma for our nation’s children. Note: This is the final session of the Preventing and Responding to Family Violence During COVID-19 Series, an online series brought to you by the MHTTC Network and the National Child Traumatic Stress Network. For more information on the series and to access recordings and resources from previous sessions, please click here.

This is a link to the recording for the session presented by our MHTTC K-12 Grant on Tribal School Support for Reopening Amidst the COVID 19 Pandemic.

This four-hour online session, divided in two days, discuss an evidence-based modular approach to help children, adolescents, adults, and families immediately after a disaster and terrorism. It is intended to provide tools and techniques for rapid response teams, service providers, healthcare professionals, and volunteers. Cultural alerts regarding main cultural values like; familismo, respeto, and personalismo will be provided to enhance providers' skills while serving Hispanic and Latino populations.   Slides here

  This four-hour online session, divided in two days, discuss an evidence-based modular approach to help children, adolescents, adults, and families immediately after a disaster and terrorism. It is intended to provide tools and techniques for rapid response teams, service providers, healthcare professionals, and volunteers. Cultural alerts regarding main cultural values like; familismo, respeto, and personalismo will be provided to enhance providers' skills while serving Hispanic and Latino populations. Slides Here

This one and half-hour online session provide information on 10th, 11th, and 12th largest population of Hispanic origin living in the United States, the Ecuadorians, Peruvians, and Nicaraguans; each group accounted for 1% of the U.S. Hispanic population in 2017. The presenter will provide information about the languages, traditions, customs, values, spirituality, and the social, historical, and political context that led them to immigrate to the United States. Also, they discuss migration trauma and its impact on mental health.   Slides Here

This one and half-hour online session provides an overview of the sociopolitical stressors impacting the psychological wellbeing of undocumented immigrants in the US, including recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The training also includes a review of the cultural strengths and resilience exhibited by this immigrant community. Lastly, this training provides a review of cultural competencies for clinicians to work with this community, including social justice frameworks.   Slides Here

This virtual training provides a description of the current distribution of Hispanic and Latino populations living in the United States, their characteristics, barriers to services including disparities in mental health treatment, and concepts that may be useful in the delivery of mental health treatment of Hispanics and Latinos living in the United States.   Slides Here

This is the recording for the MHTTC session, Understanding Suicide Part 3: Tools for providers to help someone experiencing suicidal ideation. 

Click the link to receive an pdf handout from the MHTTC session: Understanding Suicide Part 3: Tools for providers to help someone experiencing suicidal ideation.

Guatemalans were the sixth-largest Hispanic group living in the United States in 2017, and along with Venezuelans and Dominicans, had the fastest population growth since 2010. Guatemalan Mayas living in the United States have suffered immigration stress and cumulative trauma, strongly associated with depression, anxiety, alcohol-related disorders, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The purpose of this factsheet is to create awareness of the Mayan population's cultural and social factors that might affect the level of engagement in mental health treatment.