Recent News

November 15, 2019 Thomasine Heitkamp, Director of the Mountain Plains Mental Health Technology Transfer Center (MHTTC), Dr. Sarah Nielsen at the University of North Dakota, and Stefanie Winfield with the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education Behavioral Health Program all represented the Mountain Plains MHTTC at the National Conference on Advancing School Mental Health. The […]

On Wednesday, October 30, representatives from our American Indian and Alaska Native Technology Transfer Centers met with the TTC’s coordinating offices and the National Hispanic and Latino transfer centers to compare and align mission statements while improving cross-center coordination.

November 12, 2019 Thomasine Heitkamp, Director of the Mountain Plains Mental Health Technology Transfer Center, and Dr. Shawnda Schroeder with the Center for Rural Health will present the first topic in a series of webinars addressing farm stress. This first session, Introduction to Farm Stress: Mental Health Needs Among Diverse Farm Populations will address the […]

12:00pm - November 13, 2019 | Timezone: US/Central Hosted by the National American Indian and Alaska Native MHTTC. This event is an Adobe Connect webinar.  If it can’t be measured, is it real? Utilizing the Hocoka Wakan, the Sacred Circle, to sustain balance as Indigenous Peoples belonging to a greater Oyate (Whole). Providing meaningful psychological and health care […]

November 6, 2019 Trust for America’s Health has released a new report entitled, Addressing a Crisis: Cross-Sector Strategies to Prevent Adolescent Substance Use and Suicide. This resource is part of their PAIN IN THE NATION SERIES: Building a National Resilience Strategy. The report explores different rates of substance misuse and suicide among youth in rural […]

A Presentation by Ijioma Oluo In a public presentation at the University of Washington's School of Public Health, Editor at Large of The Establishment, Ijeoma Oluo, discusses her book, "So You Want to Talk About Race." She offers a contemporary, accessible take on the racial landscape in America, addressing head-on such issues as privilege, police […]

The National Organization of State Offices of Rural Health (NOSORH) created National Rural Health Day as a way to applaud the ongoing efforts, contributions, and collaborations occurring in rural communities to address the unique challenges in accessing and delivering health care services. This year, National Rural Health Day is on November 21, but activities will […]

This guide supports health care providers, systems, and communities to address first-episode psychosis and co-occurring substance use disorders. It describes relevant research, examines emerging and best practices, identifies knowledge gaps and implementation challenges, and offers resources. Click here for more information and click here to download the guide. 

We are in the News!  Check out this great article in Rutgers Today on the Northeast and Caribbean MHTTC which discusses the Center's initiatives and activities..

On October 15, 2019, New England MHTTC co-sponsored an open forum hosted by UMass Boston entitled “Conversations with Millennial Men of Color: Accessing Behavioral Health.” The event was conceptualized by Tony Martin, who is a graduate researcher at the William Joiner Institute for the Study of War and Social Consequences, UMass Boston.   “The forum […]

Serious Mental Illness and Suicide Educational Needs Assessment This 3-minute survey will assist SMI Advisor in identifying education and practice needs on the intersection of suicide and serious mental illness (SMI). Serious mental illness (SMI) includes one or more diagnoses of mental disorders combined with significant impairment in functioning. Schizophrenia, bipolar illness, and major depressive […]

The Northwest Mental Health Technology Transfer Center, in partnership with the Treatment and Services Adaptation Center for Resiliency, Hope, and Wellness in Schools at the University of Southern California, present the: 2019-2020 Webinar Series: Creating Trauma-Responsive Schools Check out our Northwest MHTTC School Based Mental Health page for more information, resources, and materials.  Webinar #1: Trauma-Informed […]

On October 17, 1979, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services was established and differentiated from the pre-existing Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. In recognition of HHS's 40th birthday, we at the South Southwest MHTTC are celebrating our collaborations with the federal, state, and local Health and Human Services Commissions.   Happy Birthday, […]

August 2019 In this article written in The Chronicle of Higher Education, the author describes the challenges of graduate school and the need to address student mental health in higher education. The article offers advice for graduate students, for advisers, and for the institutions. Read the full article, Why We Need to Talk More About […]

October 11, 2019 The Mountain Plains MHTTC developed a brief highlighting the success of a rural internship program. The brief provides an overview and the lessons learned from a program implemented through the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education’s Behavioral Health Program. This initiative focused on developing rural psychology internship opportunities in an effort to […]

The Northwest MHTTC and Pacific Southwest MHTTC are excited to partner on an upcoming "West Coast ISF Party"! Our three-part distance learning series will focus on the three topics of the newly released Interconnected Systems Framework (ISF) Fact Sheet Series.   Interconnected Systems Framework (ISF) 101: An Introduction Tuesday, October 22, 2019 | 6-7 p.m. […]

September 29, 2019 The Mountain Plains MHTTC team has been working with schools throughout the region to address school mental health. This work was reported in a recent local news report highlighting the great work of the Mountain Plains MHTTC, and the teachers at Prairie Rose Elementary school in North Dakota.   Read the full […]

August 2019 The National Council for Behavioral Health developed this report with a primary goal “to examine existing data and expertise on mass violence, provide an analysis about its causes and impacts and make recommendations to inform policy and practice for a wide range of stakeholders. These include the federal Departments of Justice and Health […]

The National American Indian And Alaska Native MHTTC participated at the International Initiative for Mental Health Leadership Exchange 2019, in Washington DC, 9.-10 of September. Participants from New Zealand, Australia, Greenland, Canada and U.S. attended the event hosted at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian.  In the picture: Top row, from left: Dolores […]

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIH) recently announced the winners of their Speaking Up About Mental Health national essay challenge, which was designed to spur conversations about mental health and encourage youth to seek help for mental health issues. Ten winners and two honorable mentions were selected from among more than 160 teens from across the U.S. and […]

The Central East MHTTC is hosting the following webinar on October 16, 2pm EDT, to provide Parent Peer Support (PPS) services that help parents who have children with special needs find and become reliable allies for each other. Parent support providers bring expertise based on their own experience parenting children or youth with social, emotional, behavioral, or substance use […]

Tobacco use is widespread among individuals with serious mental illness (SMI), and the high prevalence of tobacco-related mortality among them is well-documented. Research shows that individuals with SMI who smoke are as interested in quitting as those without SMI, and can do so without jeopardizing their mental health recovery. There is a critical need to engage mental health program directors and […]

 

September 19, 2019 Housed with the Rural Health Information Hub, the new Rural Suicide Prevention Toolkit, created in partnership with the University of Minnesota Rural Health Research Center and the NORC Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis, compiles evidence-based models and resources to support organizations employing suicide prevention programs in rural communities. The modules in […]