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“MoodPal is a multifaceted and comprehensive physician and patient app that combines the features of ‘mood trending, social connection, personalized media, and daily check-ins’ to improve emotional intelligence and provide visual data regarding an individual’s mental health progress.” Dr. Alexander Au, a mental health advocate and member of the Global Mental Health Initiative is the […]

Recovery Month is a national observance held every September to educate Americans that substance use treatment and mental health services can enable those with mental and substance use disorders to live healthy and rewarding lives. Now in its 30th year, Recovery Month celebrates the gains made by those in recovery. Save the following dates for SAMHSA's […]

Eight of the top ten states with the highest suicide rates in the nation are in the rural mountain West, including Colorado. The region has been labeled "the suicide belt." Even scenic mountain resort towns like Aspen and Durango, Colo., have reported upticks in suicide. Suicide is a problem everywhere in rural America though. More […]

Our Native American and Alaska Native Leadership Academy kicked off with a 5-day Immersion Training at the Meskwaki Hotel and Casino in Tama, Iowa in August 2019. Mentees gathered on Monday and began their yearlong training in various leadership topics including recognizing personal strengths, delegation, the art of listening, addressing conflict, and more. On Wednesday, […]

The American Psychological Association recently released a new depression treatment resource, Clinical Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Depression Across Three Age Cohorts. The guideline recommends interventions for the treatment of depression in children and adolescents, adults, and older adults. Recommendations are based on a systematic review of the scientific evidence, a weighing of the benefits and harms […]

Suicide is a complex, national public health issue that affects communities nationwide, with more than 45,000 Americans, including more than 6,000 Veterans, dying by suicide every year. Suicide is preventable, and special training is not needed to prevent suicide. Everyone can play a role by learning to recognize warning signs, showing compassion to Veterans in […]

In 2015, South Dakota declared a state of emergency following a sequence of youth suicides on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. A recent summer study program on telehealth and telemedicine within the state legislature highlighted poor access to mental health services as a major contributing factor. Discusses bills passed earlier this year to improve access […]

Access to broadband can be a significant barrier to providing telebehavioral health services in rural communities. The Pew Research Center recently shared that “Even though rural areas are more wired today than in the past, other research shows that substantial segments of rural America still lack the infrastructure needed for high-speed internet, and what access […]

Utah has one of the highest rates death by suicide in the U.S. and a high rate of gun ownership. When those two factors collide you get a population with lethal access to lethal means, resulting in 85% of firearm deaths being suicides. And the rate in rural parts of the state is higher than […]

SAMHSA has released the latest data findings from the 2018 NSDUH. NSDUH provides estimates of the use of illegal substances, prescription drugs, alcohol, and tobacco, as well as mental disorders, treatment, and co-occurring substance use and mental disorders in the United States. NSDUH data also help to identify the extent of substance use and mental […]

SAMHSA Sponsored Webinar about Mental Health in Schools  Learn how emotional regulation is related to mental illness, tools you can use to support children master emotional understanding and control, and how to pay for programs that support social emotional learning. August 30th 12:30pm Eastern Time, the RAND Corporation will dive into how to get mental […]

The New England MHTTC and the Great Lakes MHTTC are excited to offer a Learning Collaborative on Trauma-informed Care Implementation.   Guided by experts in TIC implementation, our learning collaborative will help you and your team develop a plan to focused on strategies, and concrete steps to bringing a trauma-informed approach to your services, systems, […]

Access the Guide! The Mountain Plains MHTTC recently released a new product addressing rural school mental health. This guide provides resources specific to addressing the unique mental health training and technical assistance needs of schools serving rural and remote communities. School administrators, faculty, and support staff are facing increasing pressure to respond to a host […]

School administrators, faculty, and support staff are facing increasing pressure to respond to a host of unmet mental health needs of students in K-12 and higher education. In response, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released a resource to assist states and […]

Mountain Plains Mental Health Technology Transfer Center team members will be attending and presenting at the National Association for Rural Mental Health (NARMH) Conference, August 2019. Each year, NARHM hosts a conference focusing on rural and frontier mental health practice, social services, research, and public policy issues. The NARMH Annual conference brings together rural clinicians, […]

Police, firefighters, and emergency medical services (EMS) professionals work in fast-paced environments, often putting in long hours and sometimes facing highly stressful and dangerous situations. This intensity can affect life at home and families of first responders. The following resources from the Disaster Technical Assistance Center (DTAC) provide various methods of support for first responders and […]

On Wednesday, August 14, 2019, 9:00 – 10:00am ET, the Northeast and Caribbean MHTTC is hosting the following free webinar: Youth Suicide: Early Detection of Warning Signs and Identifying Risk Factors. Suicide is a complex issue and usually an intimidating topic to talk about. This webinar is an introduction to suicide prevention for school personnel. […]

A “Youth Mental Health Training” is being offered in Georgia by Mental Health America of Georgia and Wellcare Health Plans. To read more about it, please click here. 

The West Alabama Mental Health Center (WAMHC) is providing two trainings on August 12th and August 19th regarding how to recognize and help those with mental health problems. To read more about it, please click here. 

The Mountain Plains Mental Health Technology Transfer Center (MHTTC) exhibition booth provided Technology Transfer Center program overview information at the North Dakota Child and Family Services Training Center’s Annual Conference. Dr. Andrew J. McLean, MHTTC Technical Trainer, hosted training sessions on Shared Decision-Making, and Psychotropic Medications: A review for Patients, Guardians, Advocates and Care Providers. […]

The Farmer Stress Hotline in South Dakota began in February, in response to farming economic and climate challenges. Farmers face many struggles to keep their farms and are at increased risk for suicide, as they often don't have insurance covering mental health and often live far from mental health providers. Read the full article covered […]

This webinar will introduce the K-12 Toolkit for Mental Health Promotion and Suicide Prevention. This Toolkit was created by the Health Care Alliance for Response to Adolescent Depression (HEARD) in 2013 (updated in 2017), in response to a need for schools to promote student mental health and wellbeing, to prevent suicide and, in particular, how to respond […]

Please join SAMHSA’s Homeless and Housing Resource Network (HHRN) for a 2-day national online conversation about the most effective approaches to ending homelessness for individuals with serious mental illness and/or substance use disorders. The Way Home: A Virtual Summit on Homelessness, Serious Mental Illness, and Substance Use Disorders will take place August 7-8, 2019, 10:30 […]

The Domestic Violence Resource Network (DVRN) is funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Family and Youth Services Bureau. DVRN works collaboratively to promote practices and strategies to improve our nation’s response to domestic violence and make safety and justice not just a priority, but also a reality. DVRN member agencies ensure […]