- Without Maternal Mental Health and Substance Use Interventions, We Can’t Address the Maternal Mortality Crisisby Somer Brown, J.D., Policy Associate, Center for Substance Abuse Treatment on May 10, 2024 at 12:00 pm
May 1, 2024, marked World Maternal Mental Health Day, and on May 12, 2024, we will celebrate Mother’s Day. While maternal health is a recognized public health crisis in the United States, mental health, substance misuse, and substance use disorder (SUD) are often overlooked as part of the crisis.
- Harm Reduction: Findings from the Fieldby Cara Alexander, Ph.D., BCD, LCSW, Director, Division of Targeted Prevention, Center for Substance Abuse Prevention on May 7, 2024 at 12:00 pm
In 2022, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) funded 25 awards for its inaugural Harm Reduction Grant Program. Harm reduction is nested throughout the continuum of prevention, treatment, and recovery, with a service model that is strategic, practical, and transformative.
- It’s Okay to Not Be Okay: Tips and Resources for Mental Health Awareness Monthby Anita Everett, M.D. DFAPA, Director of the Center for Mental Health Services on May 1, 2024 at 12:00 pm
It’s May, so just checking in… “How is everybody doing?”
- Taking Action: Become a Health Equity Leaderby Walker Tisdale III, M.P.H., M.A., LMSW; Jennifer Early, Fellow, Office of Behavioral Health Equity on April 17, 2024 at 12:00 pm
In a 1955 speech, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. famously declared that of all forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most “shocking and inhumane.” Yet racial and ethnic health inequities remain pervasive across all state health systems* (PDF | 3.5 MB). Fortunately, with hard work and the passage of time, health equity progress does take root and grow. Indeed, there are significant advances to achieving health equity for African Americans and other marginalized populations.
- The Importance of Disaster Behavioral Health: Why it Mattersby CAPT Maryann Robinson, Ph.D., RN, Director, Division of Trauma and Disaster Behavioral Health, Center for Mental Health Services; Anne Reim, M.P.H., Division of Trauma and Disaster Behavioral Health, Center for Mental Health Services; Maggie Jarry, M.Div., M.S., Senior Advisor, Division of Trauma and Disaster Behavioral Health, Center for Mental Health Services on April 1, 2024 at 12:00 pm
From devastating wildfires, tornadoes, and mudslides to mass shootings and terrorist attacks, it’s almost impossible to turn on the news these days without seeing a report about another disaster. Natural and human-caused disasters are increasing in frequency, duration, and severity.