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Mental Health Issues among Older Hispanic and Latino Adults in the United States is a fact sheet based on the webinar; Older Latinos in the U.S.: Mental Health Issues provided by Bernardo Ng, MD. Latino older adults are considered heterogenic and are underrepresented in research, posing challenges for practitioners. Some of the most prevalent mental health disorders among older Latinos include depression, neurocognitive disorders due to Alzheimer´s disease, and other neurocognitive disorders. Mental health clinicians serving older Latinos should consider the use of translators, interpreters, or having access to Spanish-speaking professionals for monolingual clients. Also, they can increase health literacy by creating and disseminating educational materials in Spanish or other dialects. Clinicians interested in offering services to Latinos should assess their own level of cultural responsiveness regarding Hispanic and Latino cultures. Spanish Version

This is a recording of the Native Youth Telehealth Initiative Webinar, which took place on May 14, 2020. The recording begins at slide 12 of the presentation.   Dr. George Baston, MHRD, Ed.D CTE, and Natasha Peterson, BS, covered how to implement telehealth using the “Let’s Talk Interactive” platform and opportunities to collaborate with the National American Indian and Alaska Native MHTTC. Dr. Baston has worked in the health and human services field for 35 years starting out with Boys & Girls Clubs of America and eventually co-founding Solutions of Substance. Dr. Baston subsequently spent 20 years utilizing technology to deliver education, training, and interventions, including telehealth, to a variety of workforces and clients such as: community-based organizations, charter vocational schools (primary in rural communities); jails and other criminal justice settings; state addiction services provider associations; Addiction Technology Transfer Centers (ATTCs); certification boards; and telehealth implementations in schools and community based organizations. Dr. Baston has over 18 years experience as a Principal Investigator (PI) for Rural Utilities Distant Learning and Telehealth Grantees; Drug Free Communities Grantees (DFC), Housing Opportunities for Persons with HIV/AIDS (HOPWA), Prevention and Partnership Grants (PPG) and a wide variety of SAMSHA program evaluations . Other experience includes Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) implementation to utilize data for program improvement, primarily through facilitation of Plan Do Study Act (PDSA) cycles.   Collaboration Opportunity! An opportunity to participate in our Native Youth Telehealth Initiative, and receive intensive technical assistance, is announced in this webinar. Application information is given at the end of Dr. Baston's presentation. Six sites will be chosen from the applicants. Click HERE to learn more: read about the project, download the full slides, etc.

This is a recording of the webinar: Introduction to Peer Support in the Era of COVID-19, featuring Talor Gray, MPH, which took place on May 13, 2020.   In this webinar, you will learn strategies for peer support and how to make this work while social distancing. Talor Gray earned her BS from Drake University in 2014, majoring in Psychology with a research focus in Behavioral Neuroscience. With a passion for translating health behavior research into practice, she later received her MPH from the University of Iowa in Community and Behavioral Health. Talor has been involved in the mental health field for the past 10 years, working and volunteering at various non-profit, education, and public health agencies. Her experience ranges from providing individual peer support and systems navigation to public health program development and evaluation. Talor is a certified NAMI Provider and In Our Own Voice speaker, and has provided trainings in population mental health, disability sensitivity, and building self-advocacy skillsets. She currently works at Olmsted County Public Health in Rochester, MN as a Community Health Specialist focused on mental health and substance use topics.

Research has shown that individual outcomes are better, program compliance is higher, and organizations decrease staff time spent and complete fewer assessments when using interpreters in health and behavioral health settings. This net effect is mutually beneficial. There is a cost-saving for organizations and equal opportunity for limited English proficient service seekers. Discussion topics for this session include: • Latinx, Language Access, & COVID-19 • The importance of trained interpreters • Common practices of trained interpreters • Strategies for working with trained and untrained interpreters • Considerations for mental health settings

Due to the need for many mental health providers to transition to online service delivery as a result of COVID-19, this webinar will provide general guidance on the use of telehealth services. In particular, this webinar focus on providing recommendations for adapting common Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tools (e.g., repeated assessment, homework tracking, etc.) for use with clients via telehealth. Special linguistic and cultural considerations for providers of Latino clients will also be presented throughout the webinar.

For Latina survivors of gender-based violence added risks may result from the current lockdown and social distancing measures. 

Practicing one's culture promotes well-being. In this series, we explore how Latinx and Native people use cultural elements such as community pride, family, spirituality, and resiliency to live safe, happy, and healthy lives.  

Practicing one's culture promotes well-being. In this series, we explore how Latinx and Native people use cultural elements such as community pride, family, spirituality, and resiliency to live safe, happy, and healthy lives.  

This one-hour online session will provide information on how to address the impact of COVID-19 prevention efforts, shelter in place practices, and isolation for individuals who experience intimate partner violence (IPV) in Latino/Hispanic communities. The presenter will describe socio-cultural Latino traditions and the impact of COVID-19 shelter in place practices that may increase IPV incidents, recognize the mental health consequences of unemployment, economic hardships, the closing of schools, and general uncertainty that may result in more family conflicts and violence. Furthermore, Dr. Lopez, will provide information about the identification of cultural resilience and coping strategies to address the impact of the pandemic in Latino families and ways to reduce stress and IPV. The presenter will review Spanish bilingual and culturally adapted domestic violence prevention resources available through the internet, online technology, local and national hotlines.

Educar a los proveedores de servicios y organizaciones sobre la necesidad de atención para evitar la fatiga de la compasión. Objetivos: •Discutir la definición de Fatiga por Compasión (FC) y términos relacionados •Concienciación sobre los riesgos de desarrollar FC •Exponer la señales y/o síntomas de la fatiga por compasión •Discutir estrategias para protegernos y/o lidiar con la fatiga por compasión a nivel personal y organizacional.

La situación económica, la aculturación, el discriminen, el ser deportado, el estatus migratorio y la inequidad en la provisión de servicios de salud mental son factores que frecuentemente afectan la salud de nuestras comunidades latinas que viven en los Estados Unidos. Este seminario web identificará y presentará estrategias de manejo de factores estresantes que pueden exacerbarse durante la cuarentena como resultado de brotes de enfermedades infecciosas. Además, proveerá enlaces a recursos para agencias, clientes y proveedores que ofrecen servicios de salud mental a los hispanos y latinos durante la pandemia. También se brindarán consideraciones especiales para atender la salud mental de los niños y jóvenes latinos.   Objetivos: 1. Identificar los factores estresantes particulares a la población hispana y latina. 2. Describir las destrezas de manejo del estrés, incluidas las habilidades de afrontamiento en persona y a larga distancia. 3. Explicar las consideraciones especiales con respecto a la telepsicología. 4. Listar las consideraciones que se deben tener para atender la salud mental de los jóvenes durante una pandemia.

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: Strategies of Support for Mental Health Providers - Empowering one another during times of crisis. This guide is tailored for providers who are Native and/or are working with American Indian and Alaska Native individuals. Topics include: general resources, telemental health, resources for children/youth, upcoming relevant events, and ACF Native American COVID-19 resources. To download this resource guide, please use the "DOWNLOAD" button located above.

Every year we celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month and make strides to helping the broader U.S. society learn more about Hispanics as a group. This is important and we should continue to do so. But to truly begin to impact the health and mental health inequities impacting Latinx, we must go beyond the three F’s that characterize heritage months: food, fun, and festival. We need to better understand the significant differences in the very diverse Latinx community, from generational, linguistic, and acculturation differences among various Latinx subgroups, to geographic differences across the U.S. We must also truly understand that being Latinx is not sufficient to effectively work with Latinx communities, and that non-Latinx providers, who are the majority of providers, can learn to work effectively with the Latinx community. This 1-hour webinar targeted to Latinx and non-Latinx providers will help us begin to “unpack” Latinx diversity and discuss what this diversity means for service provision in health and behavioral health.

This presentation, by a non-Latino clinician who has worked extensively in Spanish and with Latino patients, integrates available research on effective clinical practice with Latinos with the first-hand experience in providing transcultural psychotherapy.

On this webinar, the developer of a therapeutic intervention for adults, youth, and families who are experiencing behavioral health problems related to past or ongoing traumatic victimization or adversity will provide an introductory overview of Trauma Affect Regulation: Guide for Education and Therapy© (TARGET). The intervention provides unique psychoeducation based on a translation of neurobiological research on the impact of trauma on brain functioning, and a practical transtheoretical sequential skillset for recovering from complex traumatic stress symptoms (“survival mode”) and associated behavioral health problems and developing resilience. A description of the research will provide support on the use and implementation of TARGET’s effectiveness.

This webinar reviews the state of knowledge on suicide attempts by adolescent Latinas who have reported higher-than-average rates over the past 30 years. Dr. Zayas will cover the developmental issues of adolescence and cultural and family systems that bear on Latina’s suicide attempts. Some time will be devoted to how the girls describe suicide attempts. Approaches to prevention and identification in schools and to family-centered treatments will be discussed.

This webinar will identify stressors particular to the Hispanic and Latino population that can be exacerbated during quarantine as a result of infectious disease outbreaks. Also, the webinar will cover stress management tools during a stressful event such as a pandemic for mental health providers to use with their Hispanic and Latino clients. Special considerations for Latino youth mental health will be also provided.

The National American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Technology Transfer Center would like to share with you Volume 1, Issue 3 of our newsletter, Mental Health in our Native American Communities for Spring 2020. This issue is entitled, "Suicide, Trauma, and Finding a Way to Heal." Please take a few moments to explore this issue.

Click here to watch the recording of Healing the Returning Warrior: Historical Overview of Natives in Warfare, Military. 

Click here to view the handouts for Healing the Returning Warrior: Historical Overview of Natives in Warfare, Military

  Gender Violence among Latinas: Key Concepts and Cultural Considerations provides mental health clinicians an understanding of the main factors that influence Latina's vulnerability to experience gender-based violence. It also includes clinical recommendations for mental health providers and organizations.   This product explains the impact of gender and domestic violence among Hispanic and Latinas, describes the difference between domestic violence and intimate partner violence, and how cultural values like marianismo and machismo embedded in Hispanic and Latino populations could exacerbate differences in the role between males and females. Many Latinas may confront struggles regarding power balances due to their gender, and factors like immigration, anti-immigrant environments, low income, and cultural values might influence this. 

Click here to watch the recording of Healing the Returning Warrior: Introduction. 

Click here to view the handouts of Healing the Returning Warrior: Introduction. 

Latino adults in the United States face serious mental health care disparities.  A combination of person-level barriers, such as stigma, negative attitudes toward mental health treatments, and limited mental health literacy, contribute to these inequities in mental health care.  This factsheet includes information on how person-level barriers impact mental health care disparities in the Latino community.  The factsheet also describes how a depression literacy tool entitled “Secret Feelings” that integrate cultural elements from the Latino community and uses an entertainment-education approach can help address these barriers to care. Information includes results from studies indicating that the use of “Secret Feelings” may improve mental health care in the Latino community